If you thought we had long ago (aka one week ago) left Chad Johnson behind, you’d unfortunately be wrong.
The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise’s most controversial contestant joined hosts Michelle Collins and Sean Lowe on After Paradise tonight, and attempted to explain his actions during his brief but very memorable appearance in last week’s premiere.
“To be honest, I drank a lot,” Chad began. He explained that he thought he and Lace were on the same page with being able to say or do whatever they wanted, but at one point, she suddenly wasn’t into it anymore.
He also revealed that he and Lace had been messaging a bit in the last couple of days before they went to Paradise, and that he was somewhat attracted to her oddball behavior on Ben’s season of The Bachelor.
We were then treated to a Skype call from an oddly bearded Spencer Pratt, defending how Chad had acted on both The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise, which sure was something, and it did nothing to deter Chad from continuing to throw his castmates under the bus.
“I’m not trying to redeem myself,” he said after being asked if that was why he went to Paradise. “I don’t care if people think I’m a good person or a bad person. That was not my whole plan. I’m not pulling a Nick Viall here and being like, I’m a good person now, please like me. I’m not trying to pawn teeth whitener on Instagram.”
Ouch.
Chad did at least make yet another attempt at explaining his comment to Sarah Herron, when he called her a “one-armed b—h” during last week’s premiere. Here is his explanation, presented without comment.
“I do want to clear it up. I obviously feel really bad,” he said. “That is—that is something she can’t control. A person with a disability. That is super messed up. But what happened and what was not aired is literally, she followed me around the entire day telling me what I could and could not say. People crowd around, I talk to them and make jokes and all of a sudden, she’s offended. I would be talking to a girl, she’d be 50 feet away listening—why is she listening in the first place, telling me what I can and can’t say?”
“You know I’m a guy with no filter,” he continued. “I will say the things I shouldn’t say. It came to a point, what I said to Jordan Rodgers on The Bachelorette, I’m going to take things on the max level and say the worst thing to think of to shut your mouth, to leave me alone. And that’s what happened. I do feel bad about that. I should not have said that.”
Sarah was then given the opportunity to confront Chad, and to give him a chance to apologize in person.
“It was really hurtful,” she said. “It was surprising, too. I mean, to hear the things you said even in your interviews was incredibly not unexpected. I didn’t think it was as bad as it really was when I watched it play back. And it was painful.”
He did his best to apologize again.
“Look I am sorry,” he said. “I should have absolutely never said that. I did not want to say anything like that…I know, the first seven, eight hours, I honestly didn’t even notice.”
Chad did acknowledge that Sarah was trying to promote her charity, shelift.org, which helps people born without limbs, but that didn’t change how much she “annoyed” him by allegedly following hm around.
“Eventually I snapped and I said something I should not have said. And I apologize for saying what I shouldn’t have said. That was messed up.”
Apparently that apology was enough for Sarah.
“I accept,” she told him. “Thank you. I think that’s what I wanted, to hear it face to face, in person. You apologized on Twitter… but you know a lot of people who have my phone number and you didn’t do anything about it.”
The exchange had to end there, since it was live TV and all, but you can bet we were wishing for more.
Part of us is intrigued as to where this hurricane of a man goes next, and the other part wants to never see him again. Guess that’s just a sign of a great reality star.
After Paradise airs every Tuesday at 9 p.m., following Bachelor in Paradise, on ABC.
