LAUREN Wood has explained why she decided to take back Harrison Solomon after his antics in the Love Island villa.
The dumped islander has gone "official" with Harrison since quitting the show, with the pair even talking about moving in together after just a few short weeks.
But the start of their romance was far from easy, with Harrison quitting the show after entangling himself in a love triangle with Lauren and Toni Laites.
Backing and forthing between the two women ultimately caused Harrison to decide to exit the series early, shortly after Lauren was dumped and she begged him to go with her.
With them both now on the outside, the pair have decided to give things a go - though talking on Love Island's Morning After podcast, it seemed there was more to their reunion than met the eye.
"Leaving made me realise I want to be with Harrison," she told hosts Amy Hart and Max Balegde: . "The last few days leading up to me leaving, I'd cried every single day and said I just want to go home."I didn't want to be there, and they just said, 'give it a go with Ty. Give it a go with Ty'. I couldn't forget about Harrison. Like, as much as he's hurt me, I felt like deep down I knew that things were going to work out and we were meant to be."
Speaking about his previous behaviour, Lauren said: "Obviously I was upset and angry with him for his actions.
"We'd said a couple of things for the days that we were meant to be staying away from each other.
"I feel like we still give each other the little looks. Then on the night that I left, he kept saying are you okay? You okay?
"And after few days of not saying a lot, I said to him I miss you, and I knew that we were going to have a chat."
"Then obviously, I had that chat with him, and I feel like, for the viewers, they all just thought, 'Why is she asking him to leave with him when they've not even made up?'" she added.
"But we'd briefly had a conversation, and he'd said he was wanting to close things off with me."
"I asked him out of emotion. I probably shouldn't have asked him that, because it was a big thing to ask, but at the time, I just thought, I want him to leave with me, I want to be with him. I want to make it work."
"As much as he'd hurt me, I was willing to try and move forward and forget the past, because he's made a mistake," she concluded.
"We all make mistakes. I just think he made a pretty big mistake, but I do think like he did that out of emotion, and he knows he shouldn't have done that."
Her comments come shortly after Lauren said she felt Harrison had proved himself in her eyes when it came to romance.
"It did affect the trust, him doing what he's done, but I do think, genuinely, him doing that and seeing how much upset he caused made him realise he needs to communicate better," she said.
"He can't do things like that, and I do think deep down, he never meant to hurt anyone. He just got lost in his feelings and acted in a wrong way and made a silly mistake."
"I think him leaving the villa showed me everything I needed to know," she concluded.
"You're not gonna leave the villa if you're not sure of someone, and I think that showed me everything."
