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Ben Higgins<\/strong><\/a> is looking back at one of the most dramatic seasons of his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n Seven years after his split from Lauren Lane<\/strong> (n\u00e9e Bushnell)<\/a>, The Bachelor<\/em> alum detailed the moment he knew their relationship was over.<\/p>\n After getting engaged on his season of The Bachelor<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in 2016, Ben and Lauren starred on the spinoff series Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever<\/em> later that year. Former Bachelor<\/em> host Chris Harrison<\/strong><\/a> even asked the couple on the show if they’d be up for a televised wedding. However, Ben admits the bloom was already coming off the proverbial rose at that point.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We had already been struggling from about a month,” the 35-year-old said on the May\u00a028\u00a0episode of the Bachelor Happy Hour<\/em> podcast<\/a>. “We were in couples counseling. We were really trying to make it work. I mean, we were butting heads.”\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact, Ben said he and Lauren weren’t really talking beyond the show.<\/p>\n “We were kind of more work associates,” he explained. “We were living in the same house. We weren’t really speaking to each other off-camera because the cameras would leave at 9 o’clock, we’d be exhausted. I might have to go into work the next day. She’d be doing her thing with her job. She was still flying as a flight attendant a little bit. We’d just be like dead tired. We wouldn’t talk to each other. We hadn’t talked to each other really, truly in weeks.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n