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But chances are you haven’t been as unlucky as Jana Hocking, whose decision to give her ex-boyfriend a second chance resulted in thousands of dollars spent on travel – and many hours of crying.

On this week’s episode of news.com.au podcast Kinda Sorta Dating host Jana tells guest, Bachelor in Paradise star Alisha Aitken-Radburn, how she ended up halfway across the world to see her ex.

“I flew to London once for an ex-boyfriend who had moved over there,” she said.

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“I said to him, ‘I never want to talk to you again, don’t talk to me’ and then of course after a year we started talking again.”

Jana and her ex decided to see if they could work things out, so she booked a two-week trip to London.

“I was going to move my whole life over there,” she said.

“Flew the whole way there, by the second night we were in a massive, giant fight and I just remembered, ‘Oh yeah, you’re a massive douchebag,’ and then had to fly the whole way home.”

The flight home was a memorable one for Jana – but not in a good way.

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“I just bawled my eyes out – that’s 24 hours of crying,” she said.

Alisha said she too could relate, explaining how her trip home from her first season of Bachelor in Paradise, which saw her brutally dumped by Bachelorette star Jules Bourne, also ended dramatically.

After she exited the show, Alisha, who is now happily dating Glenn Smith, said producers let her order whatever she wanted from hotel room service.
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“I ordered like two bottles of red wine and a banana split – I think I ordered two banana splits,” Alisha said. “I cried all night.”

The next day she had to fly back from Fiji to Australia on an early flight.

“On that flight back to Sydney I watched Moulin Rouge and I just cried the whole time, it was quite cathartic,” Alisha said with a laugh.