Beverly Ortega’s final moments on The Bachelorwere far from rosy.
The season 29 contestant revealed that she had to go into emergency surgery for appendicitis, forcing her sudden departure during the third episode not long after receiving a one-on-one date with Grant Ellis.
“I take a nap, I wake up and my stomach’s hurting,” Beverly explained to Joe Amabile and Serena Pitton the Feb. 10 episode of the Bachelor Happy Hourpodcast. “I’m like, ‘OK, maybe I just need to go to the bathroom,’ or the food didn’t sit well. I start throwing up. My stomach is continuing to hurt and I’m in excruciating pain. This goes on for 12 hours.”
While she initially believed it could be food poisoning or the flu, she emphasized that something was definitely very wrong.
“They ended up taking me to the hospital,” she said of the production team. “After three hours of being in the ER, the doctor came in and he’s like, ‘You have appendicitis. You’re going to need emergency surgery.'”
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