Q&A With Jillian Harris: The Ex-'Bachelorette' Now Realizes 'You Can’t Force Someone To Love You'
Sept. 6 2013, Published 11:54 a.m. ET
Four years has put a lot of distance between Jillian Harris and her starring role on the fifth season of ABC’s The Bachelorette; since then, she has broken up with her fiancé Ed Swiderski (who she met on the show), found love again, returned to reality TV and started her own business.
Breaking Celebrity News got the chance to catch up with Jillian for an exclusive interview, and find out where life has taken her since she left the show.
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Radar: What has life been like since leaving The Bachelorette?
Harris: I sometimes feel like it’s a dream that I ever lived in Chicago. Immediately after The Bachelorette, I went through a really tough time. I felt very deflated and I failed with my relationship with Ed. But I have some incredible friends and family that I leaned on and I went traveling and I got my groove back.
Radar: Tell me about your career since leaving The Bachelorette.
Harris: Before I went on The Bachelor, I did this video to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition about how I wanted to be the next designer and I just never sent it in. And so after The Bachelor aired, apparently Extreme Makeover contacted the folks at ABC and said that they were interested in having me a guest designer, which is crazy. But ABC had already wanted me to be The Bachelorette. So the second I was done The Bachelorette, I got a call from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It was like a dream come true. I worked for them for three seasons.
Radar: What have you been doing since finishing Extreme Makeover?
Harris: Since then, I did a show in Canada