One of “The Bachelorette” contestants (on the now canceled season) was Brad Ledford, the driver of the 2014 car accident that paralyzed former U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn
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One of “The Bachelorette” contestants (on the now canceled season) was Brad Ledford, the driver of the 2014 car accident that paralyzed former U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn
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This season was cursed from the start
What the fuck is going on at ABC
Holy shit. Was the season’s theme “shittiest people ever”
The “best” people all around.
I think ABC has a kink for these types of people because every season there is someone so deeply problematic it defies reason.
Knowing them, I’m almost certain ABC knew this and cast him to bring drama to the show.
… Of course he was
The guybthat saved him and cawthorn lied and said he abandoned him? That guy?
It’s a small world….
In 2014, at age 18, Cawthorn was seriously injured while returning from a spring break trip to [Florida](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida). He was riding as a passenger in a [BMW X3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_X3) SUV near [Daytona Beach, Florida](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytona_Beach,_Florida), when his friend **Bradley Ledford** fell asleep at the wheel. The vehicle crashed into a concrete barrier while Cawthorn’s feet were on the dashboard. In a 2017 speech, Cawthorn said that Ledford left him “to die in a fiery tomb”, which Ledford has disputed. Ledford said in a sworn deposition for insurance litigation that he pulled an unconscious Cawthorn from the wrecked vehicle immediately after getting out himself; in Cawthorn’s deposition, he stated that he had “no memory from the accident”.
Also, the 2020 general campaign, his Democratic opponent drew attention to 2017 Cawthorn [Instagram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram) post with a picture of his visit to [Adolf Hitler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler)’s vacation residence [Eagle’s Nest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus), which he said had been on his “bucket list for a while” Not odd/weird at all
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Cawthorn#Controversies)
they would have been perfect together
im 1000% sure they find these people for “drama”. before its someone who cheats on their ex now they want people who have permanently altered the lives of people in the worst way. like you gotta draw the line somewhere
One good deed doesn’t excuse signing up for the Bachelorette.
Another one was Lana Del Rey’s ex-fiancée
(Not the alligator guy though)
The 2014 accident (that left him partially paralyzed): Cawthorn was riding as a passenger in a BMW X3 SUV near Daytona Beach, Florida, when his friend Bradley Ledford fell asleep at the wheel, causing the vehicle to crash into a concrete barrier. Cawthorn later controversially claimed Ledford left him to die, but Ledford said he pulled the severely injured Cawthorn to safety through the smashed door window.
Can they not get an intern to Google these people?
They’d have Jeff Epstein, the New York financier, on the Golden Bachelor if he wasn’t murde…, uh, suicided.
Cocaine and hookers, forgot all about that guy
God please let him come back I so desperately want to see how they’d wrap that into the story.
Let this accident be a lesson to us all: DO NOT ELEVATE YOUR FEET UPON OR AGAINST THE DASH!!!!
The tone of that article is so odd. “He fell asleep and paralysed someone” “he described himself as a cowboy type”.
what crazy ass lore im in love
330 million Americans and they managed to find two of the absolute worst for a single show. It has to be intentional.
Do people still watch “reality” based shows that are ironically all scripted ? I can’t get into all that trash.
Are they speed running their own demise or what
They should just drop the whole franchise atp
What the entire fuck
Is a criminal record required to audition? 💀
Jfc I never pay attention to these kinds of shows and this is the 3rd incident I’m hearing of this week
Hahahaha
I’ve just started watching UnREAL (for my bb Francois Arnaud) and this is like something out of their playbook
Oh come ON
They know how to pick em
Dude has 1 brain cell
That’s why you don’t put your feet on the dashboard.
Good lord. So Madison Cawthorn:
Won an election for Congress in North Carolina in 2022
Ran in a different district in North Carolina in 2024, even though he didn’t live in it, and lost in a primary, then started raging that it was time for “Dark MAGA” to reassert itself against the traitors from within his own party.
And is now running for Congress in Florida instead, because hey, why not..
Good God, is anyone on the show vetted?