Chris bukowski and elise mosca

— -- Elise Mosca shocked "Bachelor in Paradise" viewers Monday by leaving the show early with Chris Bukowski.

But the reality-TV star told ABC News that she knows she made the right decision.

"I came to paradise to leave with someone, to have a boyfriend, to start something," she told ABC News.

"I don’t want to spoil anything, but if leaving with Chris was the first step of that, I was willing to take it and I’m glad I did."

Mosca, who previously appeared on Juan Pablo Galavis' season of "The Bachelor," was asked by Bukowski, who had to leave the show because of a knee injury, to join him on his trip back to Chicago.

She said the opportunity to "get to know each other outside of the show and away from the cameras" was too good to pass up, though she admitted she did consider the advice of her friends of the show who told her to slow down.

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