Kelley Flanagan Says 'Bachelor' Producers Locked Her In A Closet To Keep Her From Peter
On The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast, Kelley Flanagan said Bachelor producers locked her in a closet.
She alleged that they locked her in a closet for three hours so she couldn't see Peter Weber.
She also said producers manipulated Peter on the show, which affected his decisions.
It should come as zero surprise to anyone in Bachelor Nation that the reality TV show's producers have a heavy hand in how everything progresses, often doing what they can to try to stir up drama (see: #Champagnegate). But Kelley Flanagan, a fan favorite from Peter Weber’s Bachelor seasons, just said the producers actually locked her in a closet to keep her from seeing Peter at one point in the show.
Kelley dropped this major nugget on the The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast. (Both Kelley and Peter—who are currently quarantining together amid the COVID-19 pandemic–appeared on the pod, btw.)
Here’s what Kelley had to say about her experience 0n The Bachelor. "I just saw that he [Peter] has such a good heart, and I saw that he was getting manipulated every which way, and it just like kind of pissed me off," she told Ben and Ashley. Kelley also said she "wasn't the best contestant for the show" (you know, given that she refused to participate in drama), but she was struggling with her perception that Peter was being manipulated.
"Even in terms with him and my relationship on the show, you know, the first couple of weeks I saw him look at me differently compared to when we got on our one-on-one, and I could tell a hundred percent that, like, producers were in his head," Kelley said. "Because on the one-on-one, nothing happened between us but he had this, like, demeanor towards me that was so pissed off, and I was looking at him like 'what the hell were you told' because nothing happened here for you to have this attitude."
Kelley went on to say, "Right then and there, I knew something was going on behind the scenes, and I was like, 'This is bullsh*t.'" She recalled calling it out during her one-on-one with Peter, but it wasn’t aired. "I looked at him and I said, 'Can I speak freely? ...They don't let me see you. They locked me up in a closet for three hours last week, and they won't let me see you,'" she said. "I said, 'You clearly know they push some people forward, and they don't push others forward,' and I was like, 'You've been in my position before, what do you want me to do?'"
Kelley said that she saw producers were "getting in [Peter’s] head that he wasn't able to make his own decision and it just kind of pissed me off."
So…that happened. For the record, there’s no way to prove this, given that it’s unlikely Bachelor producers would actually cop to this behavior. But Kelley is a lawyer, and she knows a thing or two about defamation, so it’s hard to believe she would openly lie about something like that. Also, it would help explain why she wasn’t invited to the Women Tell All special.
Speaking of Kelley and Peter: The former Bachelor denied they're dating, even though they are living together (albeit with fellow Bachelorette alum Dustin Kendrick).
Peter went on Nick Viall's podcast—The Viall Files—and addressed the rumors. "Are we dating? No. Do I love spending time with her? Absolutely. We're not dating. Could I see that in the future? Yeah, of course," he said. "I'd be extremely lucky and very happy if that happened."
But Peter also acknowledged that he’s been struggling on the relationship front lately. "Of anyone, I'm the last person that needs to rush into any kind of relationship,” he said. “I just had an engagement that didn't work out. I just was trying to pursue things with another woman that didn't work out. That's why right now, I'm just taking it really, really slow."
And that, my good people of Bachelor Nation, is the tea.
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