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EXCLUSIVE: Olena says the other Bachelor contestants questioned her feelings for Richie.

If you’re a fellow girl competing in the Bachelor mansion, there’s one thing you’re not allowed to talk about with 24-year-old Olena: Richie.

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The Ukrainian beauty has previously said she wasn’t close to many of the girls in the house – except for intruder Steph, who involved Olena in a post rose-ceremony skinny dipping ritual – and now she’s told us the reason why.

Olena often held back from Richie, which made the other girls question why she was there. Image via Channel 10.
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It's just too damn awkward.

"I don't want to open myself up to someone who is fighting the same guy. You're dating the same guy, so why would I talk to you about the same kid of things?" she told Mamamia.

"I was more like, 'So, how's the weather guys?'"

But Olena's tactic didn't win her many friends in the mansion: in fact, many of the contestants questioned her motives for being there.

"There was a lot of girls in the house kind of saying, ‘Oh you don’t like him, why are you here?’", she revealed.

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"But just because I didn’t talk about it doesn’t mean I didn’t have feelings for him."

Of her final week on the show, Olena said she's "still trying to figure out her feelings" for Bachelor Richie.

"The whole thing is so intense right now, emotions are running really high," she said, of the countdown to the show's finale next week.

See who is left in the competition for Richie's heart...