“A thousand percent, it was all worth it,” Katie shared while seated next to Blake. “I think everyone can agree that this was exactly who I was supposed to be with. He fought to be here for me and chose to stay even when I’m telling him to his face that I considered leaving. He was confident enough to hold both of us to the end.”
For his part, Blake told Tayshia and Kaitlyn that the couple is ready to stop living in the shadows. “It’s been awesome—we’ve been waiting for this for so long,” he said of the finale. “We’re just ready to get out and live real life now.”
When asked to reflect on the fact that he came into the process after Katie had already started forming relationships with the other men, Blake was quick to agree that it would have been tough to predict this outcome. “It’s wild how it all kind of spiraled out of control, in the best way,” he admitted.