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"One of The Bachelor&amp;#039;s most controversial seasons came to a close last night when Ben Flajnik chose to propose to Courtney Robertson. In doing so, he said goodbye to runner-up Lindzi Cox, who recently spoke to reporters on a conference call about her time on The Bachelor. Read on to find out what she has to say about Ben, Courtney, her time on the show and whether she wants to be on Bachelor Pad... When Ben&amp;#039;s sister asked you about Courtney, you kind of took the high road. Do you wish you&amp;#039;d said more? &amp;quot;You know, I think in talking to both Ben&amp;#039;s mom and sister I said how I felt about Courtney. And when I was there in the house with her, I didn&amp;#039;t really have anything that negative at all to say about her, so I just stated the obvious - that her and I are two very different people. I don&amp;#039;t regret saying that. If I&amp;#039;d said more, I&amp;#039;d have been kind of making things up.&amp;quot; You said when you left that if Ben did want to marry Courtney he&amp;#039;d look like a &amp;quot;total fool&amp;quot;. Do you still feel like that? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t still mean what I said. Seeing the show, seeing how that relationship was, I think that ultimately it&amp;#039;s not my place to say if they&amp;#039;ll last or not or if he was making a good decision or not. He has to do what&amp;#039;s best for him, and I really do wish them nothing but the best.&amp;quot; Did it upset you that you didn&amp;#039;t get a chance to have your say on After The Final Rose? &amp;quot;It really didn&amp;#039;t upset me. I think Ben and Courtney both came out, it was a really emotional time for them and I think Ben has bigger issues to deal with right now like his engagement. Clearly they were in a fragile state. I&amp;#039;m in a good place, I got my closure, I didn&amp;#039;t have any pressing issues I had to talk about so it was better for him and for me to move on from it.&amp;quot; When do you think you got closure? &amp;quot;I think I did get the closure that final day in Switzerland. He was really honest with me I think and told me he did have some feelings for me but ultimately he loved someone else more. At the end of the day I respect that because I don&amp;#039;t think anyone wants to be with someone who doesn&amp;#039;t know without a doubt that they want to be with that person.&amp;quot;  Some of the other women seem relieved that they didn&amp;#039;t make it to the end and end up with Ben. Do you feel like that? &amp;quot;I think that hindsight is a beautiful thing. I really am happy with how things ended for me. In the moment I felt that way about Ben, but he made his decision and I respect that. I think that he did come off pretty well in the situation he was in so I don&amp;#039;t feel like I dodged a bullet, but I do feel like things worked out the way they were supposed to work out.&amp;quot; If things don&amp;#039;t work out with Courtney, would you be open to a relationship with Ben now? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know. I&amp;#039;d cross that bridge when I got there! But I feel like if he didn&amp;#039;t know for sure about me then, he wouldn&amp;#039;t change his mind now.&amp;quot; Do you think if Ben had chosen you you&amp;#039;d still be together? &amp;quot;I think that&amp;#039;s really hard to say because I don&amp;#039;t know. A lot of time&amp;#039;s gone by and a lot of time we would have spent together, so it&amp;#039;s really hard to say.&amp;quot; What have you learned about yourself and men because of your involvement with Ben? &amp;quot;I learned that men like naked girls and skinny dipping! No, I think the thing I learned the most about this is before, dating people, if things were going well I just left it at that and I wasn&amp;#039;t a good communicator. Going through Bachelor taught me how to be open with my feelings and be good at this dating thing. It made me realise that my previous relationships in my past hadn&amp;#039;t worked out because there is a lot of communication that goes into a healthy relationship so I think I learned how to let my guard down more and be more open with people that I&amp;#039;m dating.&amp;quot;  What was your real reaction to Courtney and Ben going skinny dipping? &amp;quot;I think in any other situation, go for it. But that was something that watching, kind of stung a little bit. He still had a lot of other really great women there and knowing that and watching their connection escalate faster afterwards kind of came as a surprise.&amp;quot; You said you were mad with yourself after Ben had made his decision - do you have any regrets? Would you have done anything differently? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t have any regrets at all from the show. I think that I was me at the end of the day. If I had been more - I hate using the word &amp;#039;open&amp;#039; - but if I had been more open and vulnerable I wouldn&amp;#039;t have been myself, and I think at the end of the day I was me and I don&amp;#039;t have any regrets.&amp;quot; How did you feel when you heard Ben and Courtney had already broken up once? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know what their relationship is like, I know it from the outside and I know them from the outside but I don&amp;#039;t know them together. So I wasn&amp;#039;t really surprised but it was kind of like, &amp;#039;Oh that&amp;#039;s too bad&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, you said Ben led you on a little bit. Can you elaborate on that? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know if Ben led me on. I like to think the things he said were how he really felt. Going back and watching it, early in the game it was really evident that he had really strong connections with other people so it just naturally makes you wonder, &amp;#039;Hmm, I wonder if he really liked me or if it was just fun to keep me around&amp;#039;. But I don&amp;#039;t think he necessarily did. I kind of think at the end it was kind of a tough decision for him.&amp;quot; You weren&amp;#039;t that emotional in the Final Rose situation - is it that you don&amp;#039;t show your emotions, or that you didn&amp;#039;t have very strong feelings for Ben? &amp;quot;I think in that moment I did have strong feelings for Ben, but going into it, it&amp;#039;s like you know thinking from a logical standpoint there&amp;#039;s a chance that his feelings are stronger with someone else. I think maybe I did put a guard up a little bit. I was very protective of myself going into that, so I think it can only come as so big of a shock.&amp;quot; Are you dating? What would be your ideal man? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not dating yet, but now that the finale is over I hope to be dating some time soon! I don&amp;#039;t really know what I&amp;#039;m looking for. Coming into The Bachelor I didn&amp;#039;t know it was going to be Ben until two weeks before and I&amp;#039;d never dated someone like Ben. Some people have their specific type, they just date like that, so I&amp;#039;m kind of open.&amp;quot;  Were you joking when you told Ben, &amp;#039;Call me if things don&amp;#039;t work out?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;Yeah. Leaving that situation, it was probably one of the more awkward silent moments in my life and I don&amp;#039;t know, I&amp;#039;m just a joker. To me that was my way of breaking the awkward silence. We laughed about it - Ben and I were laughing about it.&amp;quot; Do you think you&amp;#039;ll keep in touch with Ben? &amp;quot;Yeah, I think absolutely there&amp;#039;s a friendship there.&amp;quot; Will you be keeping in touch with any of the other women? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not keeping in touch with anyone yet but I&amp;#039;m really looking forward to. There were so many girls - more girls than there weren&amp;#039;t - that I&amp;#039;m looking forward to being friends with after this.&amp;quot; Do you think that Courtney was ahead from day one or was her relationship with Ben more gradual? &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t think of her as ahead, but I do think their relationship escalated the fastest. So yeah, maybe they were ahead. Watching it, it didn&amp;#039;t look like in the beginning that she was the one he was going to end up with. I think he genuinely had feelings and relationships forming with a couple other women.&amp;quot; Do you still believe you were truly in love with Ben or were you just caught up in the competition? &amp;quot;I think I did have really strong feelings for Ben at some points. I think I was not caught up in the competition but caught up in the moment, because the time we had together was so great. But then in between dates when I saw him going on dates with the other women I started to second guess myself. I didn&amp;#039;t let myself go there as much as I could have.&amp;quot; Would you consider being the next Bachelorette? &amp;quot;That obviously would be a year away. It&amp;#039;s not something I&amp;#039;ve been talked to about yet but given the opportunity I would definitely strongly consider it.&amp;quot; Do you feel cheated that you&amp;#039;re not the next Bachelorette considering that you were in the prime position? &amp;quot;I definitely would have been interested, but I feel like this was such a cool experience and I&amp;#039;m so lucky to have gotten to do it, I can&amp;#039;t feel cheated at all because I&amp;#039;ve gotten to do so much awesome stuff.&amp;quot; Will we be seeing you on Bachelor Pad? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know - hopefully! I would be very interested in doing it.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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