By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

America's collective tongue wagged watching Monday's two-hour season premiere of The Bachelor, as sexy Monica seemed more into fellow contestant Blakeley than the man of the hour, Ben Flajnik.

However, the old adage: "Believe half of what you see" might come in handy in this case. Monica’s stepmother Sherry Ekberg exclusively tells Star magazine that Monica's not gay or bisexual -- but might have been drunk at the time of the steamy advance, which saw her flirt with Blakeley in plain view of the others, as she told her: “You’re beautiful; you’re amazing.”

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Sherry told Star exclusively that the show’s producers “really like to keep the contestants intoxicated, so anything can happen at that point ... they keep them a little looped up.” (This falls in line with Star's earlier report that the show encourages its contestants to booze it up with vodka and other potent elixirs prior to taping.)

According to Sherry, Monica wasn't