The Bachelor series loves telling how increasingly dramatic each season gets.
But what goes down behind the scenes can be even juicier than a shocking rose ceremony
rejection.
From tragic crimes to phony weddings to scandalous hookups, here are the craziest Bachelor moments
you didn't see on TV.
Alleged affair
Many fans were rooting for Emily Maynard to find love during Season 8 of The Bachelorette,
support that made sense given her tragic backstory and status as a single mom.
But were viewers cheering on a villain in disguise the entire time?
Jef Holm, who received the final rose from Maynard in July 2012, might say yes.
Although Holm and Maynard initially dismissed the August 2012 tabloid reports of a rift
between them as, quote, "bogus," Holm's brother Mike told Us Weekly,
"I can tell you that it's all 100% true.
I was there and I heard the fight and watched the whole thing go down, Emily leaving and
everything.
I love my brother very much and, like the rest of our family, I just want him to be
happy."
Jef's ex-girlfriend Kaylee also spilled the tea to Us Weekly a month later, claiming Emily
cheated with football star Matt Leinart.
Jef supposedly found inappropriate text messages between Emily and Matt that caused him to
question their whole relationship.
He reportedly told Kaylee,
"She strung me along and was talking to another guy the whole time!"
By October 2012, Jemily was no more, although neither Jef nor Emily confirmed any infidelity
in their official statements about the split.
Tragic car crash
Season 19 Bachelor lead Chris Soules encountered tragedy on April 24th, 2017 when, according
to The Chicago Tribune, his pickup truck allegedly rear-ended a tractor belonging to his 66-year-old
neighbor, Kenneth Mosher.
After calling 911 and reporting that Mosher didn't appear to be breathing, Soules allegedly
left the scene and returned back to his home before police arrived.
Sadly, Mosher later died at the hospital as a result of his injuries, and Soules was arrested
and charged.
"You are charged with leaving the scene of an accident causing death."
Soules initially faced felony charges and up to five years in prison, according to Us
Weekly, but the reality star's legal team was able to arrange a plea deal in November
2018.
Heartbreaking secret
One of the most upsetting off-camera Bachelor events concerns Britt Nilsson, who starred
on Season 19 of the original series.
Nilsson, in a brave move, revealed that she struggled with a bulimia relapse during the
show.
"Yeah, I felt insecure, I didn't feel pretty enough, I didn't know what was going on, I
missed my family."
Blaming the relapse on "pain and anxiety," Nilsson shared that she dealt with the eating
disorder for most of her life and that she tried to conceal her health issue during her
time on the show.
"You're mic-ed 24/7.
And I would take my mic off and try to hide it under towels so they wouldn't hear me throw
up."
Luckily for Nilsson, she has found support in her now husband, Jeremy Byrne.
"He just stuck by me with it.
And he would ask me about it, he would keep me accountable, and it actually got much,
much better."
Racy ride
Juan Pablo is arguably the most criticized bachelor of all time, an opinion that seems
to hold weight when you consider what he told runner-up Clare Crawley during a helicopter
ride.
During a one-on-one date, the Season 18 bachelor decided to whisper a sweet nothing in Crawley's
ear that audio didn't pick up.
As it turned out, that sweet nothing became a total deal-breaker for Crawley.
According to E! News at the time, Crawley said during a confessional,
"I'm shocked.
He chose to tell me something that no woman wants to hear.
That he doesn't know me and some sexual thing I don't want to repeat.
It was insulting, and it was offensive."
So, what did Juan Pablo really say to Crawley?
In March 2014, an insider told Us Weekly,
"He said, 'I love f---ing you but I don't know you.'"
The good news?
Crawley moved on from their breakup fairly quickly thanks to the inappropriate conversation.
The source added,
"She's totally over him.
She is done with him and relieved that they are not together."
Disturbing claims
It's pretty common for Bachelor couples to break up after they reenter the real world,
something Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray know all too well.
Well, not only did the couple split six months months after Dorfman gave Murray the final
rose in July 2014, but their breakup was chock-full of drama.
Dorfman confessed to Us Weekly in May 2016 that Murray would sometimes call her derogatory
names during their fights, a disturbing claim given their seemingly perfect on-camera personas.
Dorfman elaborated on these issues in her book, It's Not Okay, alleging that Murray
didn't want her to pursue a career and that he would express jealousy over her male friendships.
Dorfman's breaking point?
According to her book, it was when Murray allegedly called her a name in front of their
friends following an argument.
She explained,
"My humiliation had hit an all-time high.
I was tired of the snark, tired of the childish behavior, tired of the accusations, and now
I was tired of him."
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Murray said in response to Dorfman's book,
"It saddens me and is very unfortunate that Andi has chosen to characterize me in such
a negative way.
I respect the private relationship we had for those 8 months, and I wish her nothing
but the best.
I pray she finds peace and happiness in her life."
Wedding fake out
Many fans thought Marcus Grodd and Lacy Faddoul found love during their time on Bachelor in
Paradise in summer 2015.
The two cemented their romance with a wedding in June 2015, an event that was officiated
by Bachelor host Chris Harrison.
The pairing seemed like a dream come true, until the relationship imploded one year after
their nuptials in June 2016.
But what seemed like your average Bachelor breakup turned into a major scandal after
it came to light that the two were never legally married.
Grodd claims Faddoul "vanished" after they returned home from Mexico.
He told Life & Style magazine,
"It feels like she's a runaway bride.
We had this fantastic relationship, and then it totally vanished.
It was like she ran away."
As for the legal side of things, they never signed the paperwork to make their marriage
official.
Grodd added,
"When we came back, we were supposed to start the paperwork.
But she stalled."
After supposedly finding flirty texts in Faddoul's phone from another guy around January 2016,
the two started drifting further apart.
Then in June 2016, Faddoul allegedly "cut off all communication."
Dirty laundry
The Bachelor contestant Bekah Martinez's time in the iconic mansion wasn't always easy,
because of her age.
"How old are you?"
"I'm 22."
"Oh my god."
Martinez complained to People magazine about the alleged ageist backlash she received,
stating:
"I've never gotten so much judgment in my life about how old I am."
Martinez got the last laugh, however, when she blasted her season's Bachelor, Arie, for
his seemingly inappropriate DMs.
It all started after Arie dumped Becca for his runner-up, Lauren, in mid-January 2018,
a decision that played out when the finale aired in early March 2018.
Amid all of this drama, Martinez took to Twitter to share screenshots of DMs Arie sent her
in early February 2018.
The conversation, arguably a lighthearted one, between the exes centered around Martinez's
missing persons status after The Bachelor wrapped filming.
After Martinez made a few memes to poke fun at her embarrassing predicament, Arie sent
her a DM saying,
"This may just win the internet today.
Such a shame they didn't use your license photo."
Martinez captioned a tweet featuring screenshots of the DMs:
"Dm'ing your ex is a good look too [Arie]."
As for Arie's response?
He told E! News:
"I think it just shows her immaturity."
"But I really don't think that he's mature enough to handle a real committed relationship.
I don't.
He's compulsive and he doesn't think through his actions."
Messy relationship
Amanda Stanton and Josh Murray met while starring on Bachelor in Paradise in summer 2016.
"I feel like we're having such a great connection, and I like you a lot, and people can see our
connection and stuff."
The two got engaged by the end of the show and they went on to have a long-distance relationship
that ended in flames around January 2017.
As for why the couple called it quits?
Let's just say there was a ton of drama behind-the-scenes.
Murray's assistant Hayley spilled the beans to E! News, claiming that the couple got into
a huge fight during the finale of Nick Viall's season of The Bachelor.
Hayley explained,
"[Amanda] ended up taking his things from their shared apartment and putting them out
in the hallway."
Hayley also alleged that Stanton refused to return Murray's car and the police had to
get involved.
In response, Stanton told E! that the clams were all lies.
Unfortunately, the drama escalated when Stanton started dating Bachelorette alum Robby Hayes
in July 2017.
Murray's mom commented on an Instagram pic of the new couple, writing the word "wow"
next to laughing emojis, a sentiment Stanton didn't appreciate, according to WetPaint.
In the comments, Stanton shot back, in part,
"I'm sorry you lack social skills and don't see how that is inappropriate/childish/slightly
creepy...
Hopefully I'm squashing this before the show airs and you make 10,000 fake accounts to
troll me like usual."
Misconduct in paradise
Bachelor in Paradise faced a major scandal in June 2017 when contestants Corinne Olympios
and DeMario Jackson drunkenly hooked up in the jacuzzi, right in front of the cameras.
The footage never aired, however, after two producers filed complaints claiming they were
uncomfortable with what went down.
The producers' complaints then triggered an investigation, which halted production for
10 days.
Naturally, the tabloids exploded with speculation, but the predominant rumor that emerged was
that Olympios was too intoxicated to consent to the encounter.
According to People magazine, the investigation ultimately concluded that it, quote, "could
not support any charge of misconduct by a cast member," and denied that "the safety
of any cast member was ever in jeopardy."
Both Jackson and Olympios later spoke out about the scandal.
Jackson maintained to The Hollywood Reporter that the encounter was 100 percent consensual.
Meanwhile, Olympios told Good Morning America that she didn't remember much at all about
the incident due to a mix of the alcohol and prescription medication she'd consumed, which
resulted in, quote, "a horrible, horrible blackout."
However she did add that there was "no bad blood" between her and Jackson.
"I have nothing against you, I'm so sorry that you had to go through this, I know exactly
what it feels like."
"Right."
"I had to go through it too, and I wish you all the best."
Name calling
Before Rachel Lindsay became the first African-American bachelorette, she competed to win Nick Viall's
heart in Season 21 of The Bachelor.
During her time in the mansion, she butted heads with Vanessa Grimaldi, the woman Viall
proposed to in the finale.
Although fighting between contestants is nothing new in The Bachelor universe, this feud is
particularly juicy because fans didn't know about it until after the season wrapped.
The topic only came to light because another contestant from Viall's season, Danielle Lombard,
spilled the beans on Reddit, writing to one fan,
"Vanessa called Rachel something that was extremely derogatory.
From what I heard it was bad.
Vanessa had to be separated for the rest of the show."
Following rampant speculation about this "derogatory word," Lindsay addressed the situation in
a conversation with Entertainment Tonight, saying,
"She called me a 'bully', and for her to use that phrase was offensive to me.
Vanessa told me that I used 'aggressive' tones with her, and I was very upset by that.
There are so many stereotypes placed on African-American women."
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