Madison Prewett Has ‘Never Cried Harder’ in Her Life Than After Barbara Weber Confrontation and Other Post-‘Bachelor’ Revelations

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Madison Prewett Has ‘Never Cried Harder’ in Her Life Than After Barbara Weber Confrontation and Other Post-‘Bachelor’ Revelations

Attention Peter Weber: Madison Prewett is sharing her side of the story. The season 24 Bachelor runner-up did not hold back during her first post-show interview. “I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not perfect. I didn’t handle everything perfectly,” the 24-year-old told Kaitlyn Bristowe on the former Bachelorette’s “Off the Vine” podcast on Tuesday, April 21. “There’s cameras all around. It’s just a high pressure, high tensity environment. … I truly, you know, tried to let my heart lead me with in every situation, in every moment. I don’t say things or do things because it’s what everybody else has done or how it’s supposed to go.” Fans watched Peter, 28, struggle with his relationship with Madison during the season after she told him that she was saving herself for marriage. After the Auburn grad told the pilot that she wouldn’t accept a proposal if he was intimate with Hannah Ann Sluss or Victoria Fuller, Madison walked away during the final episode. Peter subsequently proposed to Hannah Ann. Their engagement didn’t last, however, with the ABC lead admitting to his fiancée that he was still thinking about Madison. After their split, Chris Harrison traveled to Alabama to get Madison. “I went out there with a lot of questions,” Madison told Kaitlyn about her brief reunion with Peter in California, which fans saw a glimpse of on the show. “I’m like, ’So why did you get engaged? Why did you break off the engagement? Why didn’t you come after me after you broke off the engagement? Why are you sitting here in California if you’re still in love with me?’ … We went into the finale not really knowing what we were going to do.” In the end, Peter and Madison went their separate ways days after the March 10 finale. Two weeks later, photos surfaced of him with fellow contestant Kelley Flanagan, who was sent home during week 7. [jwplayer GwSGZt6Q-l3ahXupL] “He was, like, calling me and texting me being like, ‘I miss you, let’s get back together.’ … He had texted me two days before [he was with Kelley],” Madison alleged. “You were telling me how much you loved me and wanted to get back together and now you’re with the one person that was my best friend. It just feels a little hurtful.” Peter and Kelley, who are quarantined together in Chicago, have yet to publicly comment on Madison’s claims. They have, however, opened up about the nature of their relationship. "Are we dating? No. Do I love spending time with her? Absolutely,” Peter told Nick Viall on April 7. “Could I see that in the future? Yeah, of course. I'd be extremely lucky and very happy if that happened. Of anyone, I'm the last person that needs to rush into any kind of relationship. I just had an engagement that didn't work out. I just was trying to pursue things with another woman that didn't work out. That's why right now, I'm just taking it really, really slow." Scroll through for everything we learned from Madison:

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Madison Prewett Has ‘Never Cried Harder’ in Her Life Than After Barbara Weber Confrontation and Other Post-‘Bachelor’ Revelations

Attention Peter Weber: Madison Prewett is sharing her side of the story. The season 24 Bachelor runner-up did not hold back during her first post-show interview. “I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not perfect. I didn’t handle everything perfectly,” the 24-year-old told Kaitlyn Bristowe on the former Bachelorette’s “Off the Vine” podcast on Tuesday, April 21. “There’s cameras all around. It’s just a high pressure, high tensity environment. … I truly, you know, tried to let my heart lead me with in every situation, in every moment. I don’t say things or do things because it’s what everybody else has done or how it’s supposed to go.” Fans watched Peter, 28, struggle with his relationship with Madison during the season after she told him that she was saving herself for marriage. After the Auburn grad told the pilot that she wouldn’t accept a proposal if he was intimate with Hannah Ann Sluss or Victoria Fuller, Madison walked away during the final episode. Peter subsequently proposed to Hannah Ann. Their engagement didn’t last, however, with the ABC lead admitting to his fiancée that he was still thinking about Madison. After their split, Chris Harrison traveled to Alabama to get Madison. “I went out there with a lot of questions,” Madison told Kaitlyn about her brief reunion with Peter in California, which fans saw a glimpse of on the show. “I’m like, ’So why did you get engaged? Why did you break off the engagement? Why didn’t you come after me after you broke off the engagement? Why are you sitting here in California if you’re still in love with me?’ … We went into the finale not really knowing what we were going to do.” In the end, Peter and Madison went their separate ways days after the March 10 finale. Two weeks later, photos surfaced of him with fellow contestant Kelley Flanagan, who was sent home during week 7. [jwplayer GwSGZt6Q-l3ahXupL] “He was, like, calling me and texting me being like, ‘I miss you, let’s get back together.’ … He had texted me two days before [he was with Kelley],” Madison alleged. “You were telling me how much you loved me and wanted to get back together and now you’re with the one person that was my best friend. It just feels a little hurtful.” Peter and Kelley, who are quarantined together in Chicago, have yet to publicly comment on Madison’s claims. They have, however, opened up about the nature of their relationship. "Are we dating? No. Do I love spending time with her? Absolutely,” Peter told Nick Viall on April 7. “Could I see that in the future? Yeah, of course. I'd be extremely lucky and very happy if that happened. Of anyone, I'm the last person that needs to rush into any kind of relationship. I just had an engagement that didn't work out. I just was trying to pursue things with another woman that didn't work out. That's why right now, I'm just taking it really, really slow." Scroll through for everything we learned from Madison:

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On Telling Peter About Her Virginity

Madison admitted that she “probably should have shared” that she was a virgin “sooner,” but concluded that she doesn’t know if it would have made a difference.

“Of course he’s going to argue that it might have made a difference, but I mean who knows because that wasn’t the situation we were in and that wasn’t what happened,” she said. “I truly tried to let my heart lead me in all conversations.”

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She Locked Herself in the Bathroom During Fantasy Suites

Madison has been very candid about how difficult it was to think about Peter with other women. She revealed on “Off the Vine” that the week of the overnight dates was “the hardest week of my life.”

“There was one time in particular where I locked myself the bathroom and was bawling crying for, like, hours,” she said. “I want to be with this guy, but I’m having to watch him be with other people.”

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On Her Initial Relationship With Barb

According to Madison, her first one-on-one date with Peter at his parents’ vow renewal was even better than it looked on TV.

“It seriously was the best day ever. I remember getting back and journaling and being like, ‘I’m screwed. How am I going to do this? I feel like I’ve known this guy and have been dating this guy for so long,’” she recalled to Kaitlyn. “I felt like we had been dating for a year and I was at the family Christmas gathering.”

When it was time for Madison to see the Weber family again, Barbara, Peter Sr. and Jack were forced to wait three hours for Madison and Peter to wrap up a conversation about their future. “I apologize, but what I will say, I came into that not knowing if Peter and I were going to make it past that conversation,” she said. “To be frank — and not to be disrespectful to anyone — but I wasn’t considering about my family, his family or anybody else involved. At that moment, my only focus was on Peter and I.”

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On Finding Out He Was Intimate With Hannah Ann

Madison told Kaitlyn that she was “so torn” about if she should stay or leave before the final three rose ceremony.

“All in one day, I had my highest high and my lowest low. In that day, I had realized that I loved this guy and I wanted a future with him and also at the end of the day, I had realized that the guy that I loved had chosen to be intimate with other women after I had expressed to him how that would make me feel,” she said. “I didn’t want to make a rash decision in that moment. … We were out there for probably two hours as he was just holding me and I was hysterically crying and he was hysterically crying. He might have been crying harder than me.”

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On How Hard After the Final Rose Really Was

Peter’s mother made it clear that she did not approve of her son’s relationship with Madison during After the Final Rose. The Alabama resident admitted that she wished she handled the confrontation differently.

“I wish that I would have just apologized and been apologetic in that moment. I think I was so taken back and I was so hurt by the things that were being said to me in this time that was so beautiful for me and Peter,” she said. “We had overcome so much to be there. We’re trying to fight so hard — we don’t know if it was going to work — but we’re trying so hard to figure out if it can. For that opportunity to kind of be taken from the both of us … for that to be the ending of the season, I mean I walked off that stage and I had never cried harder in my life.”

Madison added that she wished she processed what was going on “a little bit faster” so she could have apologized to Barb.

“I loved the Weber family,” she said. “Every time I saw Peter, and I know a lot didn’t get shown throughout the show, but every time we were together he was talking about how much his family loved me. … We were already talking about when we were going to see the family again.”

Madison also acknowledged that she gets why it wasn’t “comforting” for Barbara to hear that she wasn’t 100 confident in their relationship. “They saw how different we were,” she said. “I was never trying to be disrespectful, [I was being] honest in exactly where I was at and how I was feeling.”

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On Her Final Breakup With Peter

While Madison referred to ending her relationship with Peter as a breakup, she also told Kaitlyn that the pair never technically got back together. “We came into [After the Final Rose] not together and we left that evening together,” she explained. “We said in that moment, ‘I love you and I want to see if this can work,’ but we never said that we were in a relationship.”

Madison added that the twosome planned to talk through all of their issues on stage, but because of the drama with Barbara, they didn’t have a chance. Two days later, they walked away for good after several long talks.

“We finally got to a place where we just realized, with everything that’s happened, this isn’t necessarily the best foundation to be starting a relationship,” she said. “And how the finale went definitely played a huge role in why I didn’t feel like it could work.”

She added that Peter will make an “incredible” husband: “I remember I just, like, grabbed his face, and I just spent an hour reminding him of how incredible he is.”

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On How Close Madi Was to Kelley

According to Madison, viewers may not have realized how close she was to Kelley while filming the series. “We were best friends, actually. We were inseparable throughout the entire process,” she said. “Everyone joked that we were like the dynamic duo. We really leaned on each other throughout that entire thing. … Even when I landed from Australia, she was one of the first people I called. She was in group messages with me and my family. I mean, we were like really, really close and talked 24/7. … I thought she was going to be in my wedding.”

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Where She Stands With Peter and Kelley Now

Madison told Kaitlyn that it was a “jab” at her for Peter and Kelley to step out on her birthday — and not reach out to her.

“I say this genuinely meaning it, I saw something special in Kelley, that’s why she was my best friend. I saw something special in Peter, that’s why I loved him and wanted to fight so hard to make the relationship work. So they’re obviously both incredible and special people,” she said.

Madison added, however, that she hasn’t spoken to Kelley “in a really long time.” She also noted that she questioned Peter about rumors she heard about his relationship with Kelley.

“His answers — and her answers — very much contradict the current situation that is happening right now,” Madison said.

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What Happened With Connor

While Connor Saeli made headlines for blushing when asked about Madison via Instagram Live, she told Kaitlyn that nothing happened between them.

“He just reached out after the finale,” she explained. She did, however, add that Connor, Tyler Cameron and Mike Johnson would be her top picks if she was to date someone in Bachelor Nation.