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Desiree Duckett suffered the medical emergency while filming Joan Vassos’ season of “The Golden Bachelorette.”
Key Points
- Former Bachelor producer Desiree Duckett opened up about the near-fatal brain aneurysm she suffered while filming Joan Vassos’ season of The Golden Bachelorette.
- “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,” Duckett said of the pain.
- Duckett experienced a coma and had to relearn how to walk following the medical emergency.
After a Bachelor producer suffered a near-fatal brain aneurysm, she had to learn how to walk again.
Desiree Duckett opened up about her traumatic health experience, which happened while shooting Joan Vassos’ season of The Golden Bachelorette, during an appearance on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast with Bachelorette alum Charity Lawson and Rachel Recchia.
“I had a brain aneurysm, which is a crazy sentence to say. It still sounds crazy coming out of my mouth,” Duckett began. “You don’t normally ... know that that’s going to happen. So essentially my brain exploded. It’s a brain bleed, and it causes a stroke.”
“Your brain shuts down, your body shuts down, your cognitive abilities — everything shuts down. I don’t know another way to put it. You’re dying essentially.”
Duckett was with some friends and other producers who were able to call 911 and help get her into emergency surgery. “It was spooky. It feels like what people say — it’s the worst pain of your life. It really did. 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.”
She noted that she was in Los Angeles when the medical emergency happened. “I was at the ICU for a month and had a little brief little stint in a coma, which is also insane.”
The producer added that she “had to relearn to walk and talk and do all of those things ... It was a long recovery, but yeah, crazy thing that happened.”
Duckett said she had “so much support” from Bachelor Nation during her recovery, along with her family and friends. She shouted out Lawson and Recchia for checking in on her. She also received a video with many Bachelor Nation stars wishing her well, including Jesse Palmer.
“It was one of those rare moments where it was bigger than The Bachelor,” she noted. “It was, like, break the bubble at this point.”
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Duckett also spoke about the impact her near-fatal brain aneurysm had on her. “When you have a brain aneurysm, most people don’t survive, and then of those who do survive, most don’t make a full recovery,” Duckett added.
“People didn’t know whether or not I was going to survive. And normally, if someone unfortunately does pass, that’s when everyone comes to the funeral, and everyone makes the [social media] post and everyone says what this person meant to them, but they’re not saying it to the person because the person’s gone. And a lot of times people wait until that happens.”
“But because people thought I was probably gonna die — then I didn’t — then I woke up, and everybody rushed to my side physically if they could because I was in L.A. or just on the phone or once I got back home. But I heard from everyone, and that’s when everyone told me to my face what I meant to them.”
“And I know people like me, like I’m fun, I’m funny, like whatever,” she concluded.
“But I like to know how I’ve impacted people and ... how much people care. That’s just an experience, and I hope no one else ever has to have it, but that is the best thing for me that came out of it. It was really eye-opening and just made me feel so special and so appreciated.”
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