Abbie Chatfield that the contestants she shared a house with on The Bachelor bullied her so much that she turned to sleeping pills to cope.
Chatfield competed on Matt Agnew’s season of The Bachelor in 2019 and came runner-up to Chelsea McCleod. In the past the reality star has spoken about the unfair treatment she received from the other contestants.
“I would take sleeping pills to sleep all day, it was really bad,” Abbie explained on her podcast It’s a Lot.
Chatfield received a “villain” edit on the show, and – at the time – many viewers questioned why Agnew took her so far. However, the now 27-year-old said on her podcast that he was aware that the other women were bullying her. She added that she is one of the only cast members who is still friends with Agnew.
“Matt protected me, he figured out what was going on, he’s very smart, I think that’s why he didn’t listen to anything they said, he was like “I can see you guys, bullying her”‘.
“All I can say is I’m the only one that’s still friends with Matt Agnew”.
The media personality said that she still doesn’t know why the other women were mean to her but believes it may have begun when she told Matt that fellow contestant Monique Morley called him a ‘dog c***t’.
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‘They were all very mad about it because they hated the dobbing, but I’m a dobber, I love dobbing, I’m a f***king dobber, don’t do it then, I don’t know you c***ts,” she explained.
“I’ve been with you guys for two and a half weeks and one of you is calling this guy a C-word, I’m gonna tell him, like babes you did it, sorry about it, but now I’m on Masked Singer, so I guess I know what makes good TV.
“It was literally like I’d killed all of their mothers, they just hated me so so much, I just couldn’t do anything right.
“I’m still really confused about what I did to them, I’ve actually asked them and one girl was like ‘you can call me and I’ll explain what I did’. I was like ‘no I want it in writing so I can post it to my stories” obviously I did nothing bad’.”
Chatfield said that the bullying was so intense that a makeup artist had to step in and asked the other women to lay off her.
“It actually looked better on air, the make-up artist literally gathered them around and stood in front of me like a protective Mumma bear and was like ‘you are bullying this poor girl, leave her alone’.”
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