The Bachelor Jason Mesnick sent home bartender, flight attendant and free spirit Naomi Crespo on last week’s episode. (Click here to read his take on what happened.) During a conference call with press after her rejection was aired, she spoke about Stephanie’s calling her immature, her mom’s crazy antics, who she wants to win, and some emotional things that never aired. Here are some highlights:

Which remaining bachelorette are you rooting for?

Naomi: Oh my gosh, Jill[ian] or Melissa. Those two are like, I love ‘em. I love ‘em to death. I mean, I think Molly’s great too, I just didn’t get as close with Molly as I did with those two girls. [Jason] will be happy with anybody though. I left really trusting that [I was leaving] three great girls behind. But yeah, I love them.

Reality TV World: By the time you had all gathered for the Rose Ceremony for Monday’s show, had you heard that Melissa’s parents did not want to take part in the show? And then if you had, did you think that was going to save you at the time?

Naomi: You know, that’s a good question. The three girls — Molly, [Jillian] and Stephanie — they were out on their date [in Seattle], and Melissa and I were back at the suite and that’s when she found out. She had talked to her parents and I was there with her.

You’re not gonna see any of this [on the show], but she really had a breakdown and it was really, really tough for her and we had a great talk that night. I told her “You just gotta trust that if it’s meant to be, if you’re the one, it’s not gonna matter. In the end he can’t hold that against you. If what you’re saying to him is true.” And her parents, [she said] “They’re awesome people and they’re great. I love my parents, they’re awesome. Yeah we’re really different, but I know that they would accept him. I know that they would love him, they’re just very private people. Obviously they don’t wanna go out and be recognized on the street. They’re private.”

So that is completely understandable, and I don’t think Melissa’s parents were too supportive with her doing the show in the first place, but they support her because they love her. So she’s got a great relationship with them, it was just really tough and she definitely had a breakdown. We talked it through, and she felt better, and she’s still in the running. She’s great.

Reality TV World: [Last week] Stephanie said that you were “a doll,” but maybe not at “the same maturity level” as some of the other girls. So was that [impression that you were not as mature] something that you were getting from the girls and Jason while you were on the show?

Naomi: You know what, I actually was a little surprised by that comment, and it hurt a little bit coming from Stephanie. But, you know, it doesn’t change the way I feel about her, I think she’s great and I really loved her.

As far as her saying that, I think that maybe it was that she didn’t get to see some sides of me that the other girls did. There’s certain people that you really open up to, and there’s certain people who know more about you than others and I don’t think she knew enough about me.

There’s times when I even feel like people don’t take me seriously and they look at [me] like [I'm] just some… you know… I was a bartender [so people talk about] that and you just kinda get stuck in that whole association like “I don’t know if she’s mature enough.” What are you gonna do?

But I don’t hold it against [Stephanie], I think that she was just expressing her opinion. Maybe she felt that, as far as the other girls, that they just had more stability in their lives — I’m a flight attendant so I’m kind of back and forth all the time — and maybe she just felt that, as far as the mother thing… I never really talked too much about Ty and wanting to be this and that for Ty because in my mind it wasn’t appropriate. [You can] emphasize about wanting to get to know Ty tonight, but I want to get to know Jason first. I’m the type that if I fall in love with somebody it doesn’t matter if you have a kid. I will love your kid because I love kids in general and I know I have the potential to be a wonderful role model and step-parent if that was the case. But maybe she just didn’t get to see sides of me that the other girls did.

Has your mom ever made any of your boyfriends do any awkward things when they have visited in the past, such as giving a eulogy for a dead dove?

Naomi: Oh gosh no.(Laughs) That was so, it was embarrassing, oh my God. My mom has met one serious boyfriend, and that was my longest relationship and obviously nothing that crazy [happened]. My mom is kind of out there, but I think she definitely could not wait to make her television debut so i think that she’s really excited. She’s quirky like that and she’s just, I don’t know. Sometimes I wonder…

She may have never done anything that embarrassing, but did she ever do anything to a date in high school or anything?

Naomi: My mom and I, we had a strange relationship for a long time. My parents divorced when I was younger and my dad got custody (pauses) well, my mom kind of gave him custody. She was experiencing, I don’t know, a mid-life crisis or whatever.

But we moved to New York with my dad, and actually I kind of spent the rest of my childhood there — I was and back and forth between high school. I spent my freshman year in Puerto Rico, I moved out to California my sophomore year and was living with my [older] sister who was always kinda like my motherly figure, I guess you could say. Then I was back in New York for junior and senior year.

So I didn’t have really a relationship with my mom throughout that time. So she didn’t have the opportunity to do that.

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