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“I don’t know another way to put it. You’re dying, essentially,” the TV producer candidly explained
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- Desiree Duckett suffered a brain aneurysm while filming The Golden Bachelorette and underwent emergency surgery
- She detailed the experience and her recovery on the Wednesday, July 22, episode of Rachel Recchia and Charity Lawson’s Bachelor Happy Hour podcast
- She explained she spent a month in the ICU, entered a coma, and had to relearn how to walk and talk during recovery
Veteran Bachelor producer Desiree Duckett reveals what really occurred when she suffered a brain aneurysm while filming The Golden Bachelorette.
Duckett appeared on the Wednesday, July 22, episode of Rachel Recchia and Charity Lawson’s Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, where she opened up about her 2024 medical scare, explaining she had a brain aneurysm. “Which is a crazy sentence to say; it still sounds crazy coming out of my mouth.”
“Essentially, my brain exploded,” Duckett, who worked for the ABC franchise for a decade, shared. “It’s a brain bleed, and it causes a stroke. Your brain shuts down, your body shuts down, your cognitive abilities shut down, everything shuts down.”
She then candidly said, “I don’t know another way to put it. You’re dying, essentially.”
An aneurysm is a weakened or bulging artery wall, and coiling is a procedure used to block blood flow to the aneurysm, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. If it bursts, it can cause brain damage or be fatal.
At the time of the medical incident, other Bachelor producers were able to help and called 911, and ultimately got her into emergency surgery.
“It was spooky,” she admitted. She noted that the description other people use, “It’s the worst pain of your life,” is accurate. “The only way to explain it is it felt like someone took a bat to the inside of my head and you just, like, feel it explode. It’s crazy.”
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The producer explained that the series was still filming in Los Angeles at the time, so she continued her treatment at an ICU in L.A. She remained there for a month, even entering a coma before she had to relearn how to walk and talk. “It was a long recovery,” Duckett said.
“It was a crazy thing that happened. But I had so much support from Bachelor Nation, from my friends and family, my support system,” she said before calling out Lawson and Recchia’s support through the recovery and treatment. “I felt a lot of love and a lot of support.”
She explained that if someone has a brain aneurysm, “most people don’t survive and then those who do survive, most don’t make a full recovery.” Duckett noted that due to her condition, “people thought I was probably gonna die,” and were motivated to speak to her about her legacy. “I heard from everyone and that’s when everyone told me like to my face what I meant to them.”
“That’s just an experience that I hope no one else ever has to have, but that is the best thing for me that came out of it,” Duckett shared. “It was really eye-opening and just made me feel so special and appreciated. And I really I can’t really put it into words, but it really meant it meant everything.”
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