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As a woman who had set her sights on finding á man - Harris, after all, went on two reality shows to find a mate (before The Bachelorette, she tried to win Jason Mesnick's heart on The Bachelor) - Harris was perhaps susceptible to being deceived. "You could tell her something and she'd just buy in because that's how she deals with people," says Kovacs. "She trusts people to a fault and that's her downfall."Indeed, when Swiderski left fnidseason and returned later, dramatically declaring, "I realized that I made a huge mistake," his fellow castmates questioned his intentions. "When he came back, I was very surprised, because I didn't return to tiffany he was very interested," finalist Reid Rosenthal tells Us.While Harris was oblivious to Swiderski's antics, some contestants had a feeling he was bad news. "There was definitely something, I can't put my finger on it, where I did think, I'm not going to be best friends with this guy," Michael Stagliano tells Us. "Ed's a shady character." Seconds Rosenthal, "Some people didn't care to hang out with him." Adds Wes Hayden, who was accused of having a girlfriend while on the show, "Dave [Good] and I both remember Ed saying he had a girlfriend, but we are not the kind of guys who are going to run our mouths."

Still, Harris pals insist she's no patsy for seeing the good in Swiderski - and for sticking with him. "I tiffany jewelry on sale think she's turning a blind eye or playing dumb," says Brad Bell, who's been friends with Harris for seven years and admits the Bachelorette does have a thing for bad boys. "She's not naive, but she's going to support you and give you the benefit of the doubt. I know she would have talked to him about it, confronted the situation and dealt with it."

And show creator Mike Fleiss tells Us that discovering skeletons in each other's closets is normal in any relationship: "They'll go through some s-t like everybody else. Can you imagine - forget the TV show - getting engaged to somebody who you've only known for two months? It takes a few years to come clean."

Harris has a stand- ing offer from John- son to expedite the discovery process where Swiderski is concerned. "I I would welcome the chance to talk to her," says John- son, "to tell her what happened and answer any questions she has." Her offer was posted tiffany somerset Usmagazine .com August 7. As of presstime, Harris had not reached out to Johnson, but she has slammed his exes as women who will do "the craziest things in order to ... get their 15 minutes [of fame]." (In fact, both have returned to their lives and declined further interviews.) Harris also said, "I feel very sorry for the girls who are brokenhearted because I know how that feels. The way that they have dealt with it, to bring up things from the past that don't apply to my relationship with Ed, it's making them, I believe, look a little foolish."

While Bachebrette contestants have their own ideas about how Harris should handle her relationship with Swiderski - "She needs to dump him!" says Kovacs - Harris isn't heeding their advice. She is moving forward with her plans to relocate to Chicago "in the beginning of September," she told The Province, adding that the situation "made us stron- ger and it's only made us communicate with each other more." Swiderski shared the sentiment, telling Stagliano, "We're going to get through it."And while Bachelorette host Chris Harrison told Us August 8 he didn't ask Harris whether she believed her fiancé cheated ("I didn't ask her because I tiffany 1837 want to know"), Harris told him of Swiderski, "? still love him more than any man I ever have in my life.'" Harrison believes they've even set a wedding date. But Harris pal Renee Simlak, a fellow contestant on Mesnick's season of The Bachelor, says the situation has opened up Harris' eyes - if just a little. "I'm sure she's being cautious. She is a very smart girl and she definitely doesn't want to be screwed over."

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