Welcome to Partial Recall: , a week of stories dedicated to trying to remember what life was like a decade ago. On July 15, , Poison's bandana-wearing frontman, Bret Michaels, began his quest for a soulmate on VH1's Rock of Love , selecting from a pool of reality television's wildest and most explosive, inebriated and exhibitionistic cross-section of tattooed bachelorettes. For three seasons, the reality "romance" contest played out in a land of rock 'n' roll, sex, and alcohol, where fake boobs are referred to by a contestant as the "best birthday present I got from my parents last year" and the runner-up is stuck with "Bret" tattooed on the back of her neck. But what happens after you walk out the door once Bret decides not to ask you to stay and "continue to rock my world"? We caught up with five former contestants to hear about life after getting stabbed by the rose's thorn. Memorable for: Being Rock of Love 's first villain, screaming pro-PETA dogma at carnivore roommate Dallas, and getting annihilated in Vegas and crawling on -- then falling off -- the bar.