Ben Higgins Particulars Nice Encounter with Ex-Fiancée Lauren Bushnell’s Husband Chris Lane
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Working into an ex’s new important different is not all the time straightforward — however typically it’s. Ben Higgins can attest to that.
The Bachelor alum, 33, shared on The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever with Chris Harrison that he lately ran into nation singer Chris Lane, 38, who’s married to his ex-fiancée Lauren Bushnell Lane at a celeb {golfing} match.
He recalled that he noticed Lane sitting at a bar a couple of seats away from him on the primary night time of the match, and determined to go up and greet him.
“I walked up, and I stated, ‘Hey, Chris, good to see you,'” he recalled, noting that the dialog was “nothing however nice” and that it was “good to speak to him.”
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He additionally confessed that he hadn’t seen Bushnell Lane, 32, since they known as off their engagement following the collection Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After? in 2017, and he had been “anxious concerning the thought” of seeing his ex and her household once more.
“You understand, whenever you undergo a breakup, there’s all the time that second when the Band-aid will get ripped off afterward, and you can begin to heal,” he defined, including that he did really feel “it will be good to see her… like, it will be good to say, ‘Okay we have executed this, subsequent chapter of our lives.'”
Bushnell Lane was not at that occasion, however Higgins stated he did see her father there, and chatted with him as properly. He famous that his virtually father-in-law was the one who instigated the dialog, which he stated “felt actually good,” and that they caught up with one another’s lives.
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Higgins tied the knot with Jessica Clarke in a November 2021 Nashville ceremony. He advised PEOPLE following the marriage: “Right here I had my greatest pal standing in entrance of me glowing with magnificence. I’m so fortunate to commit my life to hers.”
“I’m overly joyful,” he gushed, including that he and Clarke hoped to have youngsters inside a couple of years. “One of the best ways to explain it’s a feeling of acceptance and love.”
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As for Bushnell Lane, she married Lane in 2019, and the couple has since welcomed two child boys: Baker and Dutton Walker.
She opened as much as Page Six in Might 2022 about calling off her engagement to Higgins after a yr of relationship: “I was really in a low place. I used to be type of at that all-time low place [after the split].”
“I wanted to get there, although, with a view to replicate and work out who I used to be and what I wished,” she defined. “I feel I wanted to only be alone, refocus on myself and rebuild who I used to be with no digicam in my face.”