The beautiful Emily Maynard sat down for an emotional interview with Chris Harrison after Monday’s The Bachelorette and opened up about her relationship breakup with Brad Womack.
Right off the bat, Emily said about her ex-fiance that “Beyond his good looks, he’s just such a gentleman. He is so different than any guy I have ever met.” With those words, we knew that the breakup was not over some scandalous affair or betrayal, but the more complicated irreconcilable matters of the heart.
Apparently, the two broke up a while ago as the tabloids screamed. Using an infamous line of Bentley Williams, Maynard said, “For so long, I think we left the ‘dot dot dot,’ and I feel bad it’s taken us this long to let everyone know.”
It wasn’t shocking that we heard Maynard say, “We’re not engaged anymore,” but it was surprising to hear her say, “He’s always going to be a huge part of my life.” She even added, “I will always be in love with Brad. No one will ever hear me say a bad word about him nor will I tolerate anybody else saying anything bad about him.” So, then, the question we all wanted answered is, ‘why break up?’
There seems to be no good answer expect perhaps the pressures of a new romance, developing in the long lens of the paparazzi spotlight, added in to a mother of a young child wanting and needing promises and assurances of a life forever together from her new beau just proved to much to handle all at once.
Emily said after The Bachelor wrapped up, she was cleaning out her house and planning on renting an apartment for her and her daughter Ricky where Brad lives but “little red flags were coming up.” She slowly realized that her wants for a relationship and marriage with Womack overshadowed the realities of the relationship. She wasn’t particular other than say that each of the duo “are used to being single,” and that “As a single mom, [she does not] have the luxury of saying [she] will figure things out when [she] gets there.” Maynard continued, “I didn’t have that reassurance “that he will be there six years down the road.”
Sadly, Maynard says, “Not a day goes by that I don’t regret how things have turned out and wish things were different.”
Emily said she does not know how the turn in the relationship happened and that no one is more disappointed than she is. “I felt like a fairy tale going through it. This is my worst nightmare.”
Womack was not present at the interview, but had given his blessings for Maynard to speak out.
Maynard said she last talked to Womack a couple of days ago over text and knows the two will remain in contact. “He’s changed me as a person and taught me a lot,” she said. “We love each other a lot and we could make it work if it was based on that, but it’s not. I want to focus on being a mom and not worry about the [paparazzi] in the bushes.”
Speaking of paparazzi, she said her five year old daughter was just as affected with the alienation such a focus on the couple had brought on and would no longer believe the photographers were not after them but after everyone in general. Maynard had even told Ricky that the paparazzi thought she was Taylor Swift, but her daughter would not believe her.