Former-Bachelor star Nikki Gogan has revealed that post-show – after she was left heartbroken by Richie Strahan – she found herself unlucky in love yet again.
The 30-year-old says she was working in her hometown of Northam, WA as a real estate agent when a man called to inspect one of her properties.
She explained to New Idea that the man viewed multiple properties, each time arriving in a different luxury car.
Nikki says that eventually, their relationship turned romantic and that the man even spent Christmas Day with her family.
“I had no reason not to believe what I was seeing and being told,” Nikki says. “But I was very wrong.”
It turns out the man made up an elaborate web of lies to trick Nikki into thinking he was someone completely different.
Something she only found out after he had ended their eight month relationship.
He told her he was a well-off property developer when really, he was a restaurant chef and all of the items he showed Nikki, including mansions and expensive jewellery, were borrowed or fake.
A chance encounter with another woman, who had experienced the same thing with the man, was how they both pieced the puzzle together.
“I am a very trusting person, that is how I have been raised,” Nikki says. “When I meet someone I will always give them the benefit of the doubt and accept what they say.”
“It’s only when they let me down that I will stop believing what I am being told.”
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