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The last period Emily Maynard was in bright Southern California, she was a contestant on the ABC reality dating show The Bachelor. That's where the Charlotte, N.C., single mother began a whirlwind television legend with an eager-to-wed Brad Womack a care for that culminated in the Austin, Texas, bar landlord popping the answer on the show's season finale. In this week's publish of PEOPLE, Maynard opens up about the rumors that have dogged the couple for weeks: that she and Womack had broken up. "We're no longer engaged,
james lebron," she tells PEOPLE. "This was my worst incubus. I thought there was not way Brad and I wouldn't work out."
For his part, Womack, 38, is likewise reeling from the breakup. "The demise of our relationship was completely my fault," says the sometime Bachelor. "I gave Em each cause beneath the sun to get out many sooner than she did. She hung in there with me many, many longer than she should have." Both say they tried hard to make their relationship go yet that it had begun to explain no long later their Bachelor season began winding final January. "Going via it, everything was very real for me," Maynard, 25, told PEOPLE in March. "Even when there were 30 girls, he still made me feel special. But then, watching it back,
Ray Allen, he had a tendency to say the same object to a couple of girls. So I felt less and fewer special."
After the finale, photographers and camera troops followed Womack approximately in Austin and Maynard and her 6-year-old daughter Ricki in Charlotte. "I had photographers appearance of my house waiting for me to work somewhere," says Maynard, who felt deeply conflicted about uprooting her daughter and relocating to Texas. "I thought, 'Oh, it ambition die down.' But it didn't."
The paparazzi "became a huge game-changer," says Womack, who experienced alike scrutiny during his premier go-round as the Bachelor in 2007, when he famously didn't choose either of his final 2 potential suitors. "I failed [Emily] in the respect namely I ought have defended her." Angered by the tabloids, he occasionally directed his frustration by Maynard. In one preferential statement to PEOPLE, Womack takes the reprehend as the breakup, mentioning he made "irreparable faults that price me what I thought was a future with a female that I adore from the base of my heart." Womack says his temper got the better of him while rumors almost the couple swirled aboard blogs and tabloids. "I would obtain so vexed and would feel almost violated. I would reserve those feelings bottled up, and at the peak of I had the chance to talk to Em…I would let that negate feeling come flooding out, and it was nearly as whether she was creature bombarded."
Also, the couple was coping with other major stumbling blocks, including Womack's inability to fully embrace the concept of being a 24-7 parent to Ricki. "He didn't comprehend why I couldn't go on a haphazard vacation the next day," says Maynard. "It's hard for me to say, 'I am so exhausted, I want to go to bed at 8,
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One thing Maynard won't be act is signing on to the next Bachelorette. "Right now my main converge is being a mom," she says of the gossip that she'll star in the sequence. "I'm equitable favor any girl dealing with a heartbreak. The last thing on my idea is to do this bring an end to ...again…I'm done with all the media speculation. I want to move on and get back to regular."
And meantime she and Womack have called it quits, Maynard maneuvers to keep in touch with her ex-fiancé. The two are still texting and calling each additional. Could they ever reconcile? "I don't understand," she says. "Right now I need a destroy from anything. I don't know what's going to happen in the future. I know thatI love him, and extra than anything he's been a friend to me…I calculate he's forever going to be a chapter of my life." The feeling namely mutual. "She was the 1," says Womack. "She's the only woman I ever wanted to marry. I will all be in love with Em."
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