Farmer Alex has broken his silence on one of the most surprising moments of this season's Farmer Wants A Wife — his decision to leave the show early alongside 30-year-old Queensland woman Eddy, walking away before the scheduled finale had even arrived.
The mushroom and cattle farmer made the unexpected call on Sunday night, cutting short his search for love in a move that caught many viewers off guard. Speaking publicly about the decision for the first time, Alex said he has no regrets — and that falling hard is simply part of who he is.
The letter that changed everything on Farmer Wants A Wife
While Alex acknowledged that his connection with Eddy had been growing steadily throughout the experience, he insisted he remained genuinely committed to getting to know all of the women on the show — right up until a dramatic turn of events shifted his perspective entirely.
That turning point came when fellow contestant Rachel, 25, discovered a letter written by Eddy. The fallout from that discovery, Alex says, made it almost impossible to continue the process as originally intended.
"We didn't know that things had tipped so far off the edge for them that day," Alex said, describing the moment he returned from a bath house date with Eddy expecting to spend more time with the other women, only to be confronted by Rachel about his feelings.
He admitted the confrontation caught him off guard and that, in hindsight, he wasn't as composed as he would have liked to have been.
"It was the one time that I'm not super happy with how I reacted to someone on the show," he said. "I wasn't as balanced as I could have been."
Alex also reflected on Rachel's choice to read Eddy's letter, saying it wasn't something he personally would have done — but that he understood why her emotions ran high.
"She was of course seeing our connection and that would trigger a response in her," he said. "I don't know if reading Eddy's diary was something that I would have done personally. If I'd stumbled across someone's journal, I just put it down."
Following the confrontation, Alex sent Rachel home. He acknowledged that the tension made it increasingly difficult to rebuild any romantic momentum with her.
His mind wasn't made up — until it suddenly was
Remarkably, Alex revealed that even going into his final date with Eddy at the bath house, he had not yet made a firm decision about who he wanted to pursue.
"Going into that date, I hadn't really made my mind up," he said. "But I would say after that night, and the events that transpired after the date, I got clearer on where my head was at — which was sort of unfortunate. But that was just the nature of the experience."
Once it became clear the experience was drawing to a close, Alex said he made what he described as a "hard and fast decision" — one he made only after consulting the people whose opinions he values most: his parents.
"My mum has an excellent perception of people, so I take her advice especially pretty seriously," he said. "And she liked Eddy from the moment she met her."
Confident they would leave together
Despite knowing he had fallen faster than Eddy, Alex said he never truly doubted the direction their relationship was heading.
"I was confident we were going to leave together," he said.
Eddy, who hails from Queensland, had stood out to Alex from early in the process. Though the road to their exit was complicated by drama and confrontation, Alex is clear that the outcome — leaving the show hand-in-hand with Eddy — was the right one for him.
With the finale still to air, audiences are watching closely to see how the remaining farmers and their chosen partners fare in their own searches for love.
