Who is Salley Carson?
SALLEY Carson appeared on Clayton Echard's season of The Bachelor but moved on to Bachelor in Paradise for the Fall 2022 season.
Producers broke the news that Carson would appear in the season after her suitcase boarded the plane, but she did not.
Who is Salley Carson?
Salley Carson was on the 26th season of the ABC franchise but raised eyebrows when eagle-eyed fans noticed on social media that she was engaged just before filming began.
The Bachelor contestant graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2017.
Carson is an associate navigation and robotics consultant for Medtronic but joined the company as a clinical specialist in 2019.
Medtronic is a medical technology company that manufactures devices for medical therapies to treat chronic diseases including heart failure, Parkinson’s Disease, and spinal disorders.
Carson was engaged to neurosurgeon Dr Avery L Buchholz, MD when she was offered to be a contestant on season 26 of The Bachelor.
Carson and Buchholz’s wedding was due to take place on September 26, 2021, and her bachelorette party allegedly took place only one month before she agreed to be on the show.
A source exclusively told The U.S. Sun that by August of 2021, the couple were “already having problems” but did not want to cancel a trip that cost thousands of dollars as they were not yet “fully broken up.”
The insider said that in late August, the wedding was officially called off and that it was “Salley who ended things.”
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“It was not a mutual decision, Salley ended it. There was infidelity on his part, he was unfaithful and that’s when things ended for good,” they alleged.
Carson's family told The U.S. Sun that the fiancé’s cheating played a factor in their breakup.
According to the source, the Southern Belle would “never” call off a wedding for no reason as that would be “insane.”
“She’s not the kind of person to cancel a $60k wedding that her dad paid for to go on a show.
“She was so ready for a husband, a family, and all of that. She was heartbroken,” they said.
The informant also claimed that after her breakup, a friend of Carson's nominated her to go on Clayton Echard's season of The Bachelor, and producers called her just four days later.
As for why she decided to go on The Bachelor when she was freshly single, the insider said: “In the moment, she thought she was doing something where she can go into it with an open heart and heal.
“She thought it would good for her but it was probably too soon. It’s so hard. She still has a lot of feelings for him, you know, she was supposed to marry him.
“Her family was skeptical at first but then they wanted her to go because it got her out of a situation she needed to get out of.
Is Salley Carson on Bachelor in Paradise?
Confusion began to circulate regarding whether Carson would appear on Bachelor in Paradise after her suitcase arrived at the mansion but she did not.
Carson agreed to join the show, but when producers went to her home, they said a strange turn of events took place.
Paradise's bartender, Wells Adams, told the contestants that it was decided a producer would retrieve Carson to bring her on the show after she had refused to get out of the limo when she appeared on The Bachelor.
Following the appearance of Carson's suitcase, Adams revealed what reportedly occurred leading up to her flight.
“[The producer] gets to Salley’s house, she texts her: ‘I’ve got a huge surprise for your outside. Come outside.’ Salley texts her: ‘I can’t. I’ve got explosive diarrhea.’
"So [the producer] bangs on the door. The door opens. It’s a man. The man yells, ‘Sally ain’t here!’" Adams said.
He continued that the producer texted Carson and four hours later she reportedly showed up at the producer's hotel room to say she wanted to see her ex-fiancé before she left for Bachelor in Paradise.
When they arrived at her ex-fiancé's house, Carson asked the producer to get in the trunk so her ex wouldn't get upset.
"This is dead freaking serious. This is real. You can talk to the producer if you want to,” Adams said.
After speaking with her ex-fiancé, Carson told the producer her ex didn't want to reconcile their relationship and told her to go on the show.
She then flip-flopped on her decision, first deciding to leave but refusing to board the plane to Mexico at the last minute, leaving her suitcase on board.
After the plane took off, Carson changed her mind and decided to go on the show.
Within one hour of being on Bachelor in Paradise, Carson decided to leave.
She left the island on the October 11 episode of Bachelor in Paradise
Why did Salley Carson leave The Bachelor?
Carson shocked Clayton Echard in the January 3 episode when she showed up at his hotel room before even meeting him at the Bachelor mansion.
Carson explained as she got emotional that she was “engaged in the past” and was “supposed to get married” the day before their talk.
“Part of me is pulling me home but part of me didn’t want to make a decision until I met you,” she told Echard.
She then told him that she kept “looking at the clock thinking ‘this is when I was supposed to walk down the aisle,'” and she “doesn’t know if her heart is ready” for The Bachelor.
“I already like what I’m seeing out of you,” Echard told Carson, adding that he wants her to feel “confident” in staying.
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“I can tell you’re a great woman and I can tell that there is something there,” he told her before asking for a moment to step away.
Carson sent herself home on the first night after admitting she still “needed time” following a broken engagement.