Madison Prewett’s Book ‘Made for This Moment’: Everything She Said About ‘The Bachelor,’ Peter Weber

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Madison Prewett’s Book 'Made for This Moment': Everything She Said About 'The Bachelor,' Peter Weber

Peter Weber’s season of The Bachelor will certainly go down as one of the most dramatic in history — and Madison Prewett was in the middle of the spectacle. The season 24 runner-up begins her new book, Made for This Moment: Standing Firm with Strength, Grace, and Courage, with the tense After the Final Rose special. Fans will recall Weber wanting to give things a try with Prewett after he ended his short-lived engagement to winner Hannah Ann Sluss, but his mother, Barbara, making it clear from the audience that she didn’t approve. “Sometimes the most courageous thing we can do is to remain silent. And that was what that moment was like for me, you know, I’m a fighter, I’m a challenger,” Prewett exclusively told Us Weekly about her confrontation with Barbara. “It is not easy for me to remain silent. When you’re under attack or when you’re under pressure, sometimes the hardest thing to do is to just trust, ‘OK, God, like you’re going to defend my character. You’re going to defend my name and my reputation. There’s no point of me trying to defend myself in this moment.’” Two days after the explosive finale, Weber and Prewett announced that they were no longer pursuing a relationship. “It definitely feels like it was forever ago,” she told Us. “I think a lot of that has to do with just, you know, we went straight into quarantine. I remember I stepped off the finale stage and two days later, quarantine hit. It was immediate. It is crazy thinking about all that's happened.” [jwplayer caAJNS1V-zhNYySv2] In the book, the Alabama native opens up about what she learned from the ABC series and gets candid about the heartbreak she felt in her relationship with Weber. As a whole, however, she told Us that the show portrayed her accurately. “People actually ask me all the time, like, ‘Do you feel like you were aired in your truest way and in a fair way?’ And I can honestly say yes, I do feel like, you know, my personality and my heart was shown,” she explained. “I will say there is a part of my personality that a lot of people didn't fully get to see – and maybe I just didn't let it out enough — because it's so funny everyone when they meet me, they think that I'm 1) they think I'm taller than I am. So when they meet me, I always get told you're way shorter in person than I thought. And then 2) people always tell me, they thought I would be like shy and more quiet.” Made for This Moment is out now. Scroll through for the biggest Bachelor Nation takeaways:

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She Felt Attacked at ‘After the Final Rose’

“I was stunned by the accusations and hurtful comments, words that felt like an attack against my character and convictions. Words sent to berate me. This was the last thing I expected,” she wrote, noting that she “broke down completely” after she ran backstage following the segment. “I kept running until I found a single bathroom to lock myself in and be alone so that I could gather my thoughts. I kept rehashing what had just happened and felt so embarrassed, humiliated, and more hurt than I had ever been."

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‘Bachelor’ Lost Her Luggage

While traveling to Costa Rica, production lost the contestants’ luggage. They were without their clothes and toiletries for two days. 

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Unaired Scene With Peter in Peru

Prewett wrote about an unaired moment with Weber from their one-on-one date in Peru as he surprised her with a dare to eat a fish heart.

“I am not one to back down from a challenge, so I tried not to think about what I was doing and threw back the fish heart and swallowed it fast, immediately chasing it down with water,” she wrote. “Although this part of the date wasn't aired for everyone to see, our gross and funny moment of eating fish guts will be forever engrained in my memory."

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‘Losing’ Her Mind During Filming

Nine weeks into filming the season, Prewett was “slowly losing” her mind.

“I was starting to be really homesick,” she wrote about accepting a rose that made her part of the final three. “Immediately after the ceremony, I asked if I could talk with Peter privately. I shared that fantasy suite week would be hard for me. I went on to share that I didn't think I would be able to move forward in the relationship if he were intimate with the other women.”

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Saving Herself for Marriage

Prewett wrote about the decision not to have sex before she got married and admitted that she felt discouraged by her conversation with Weber about her choice.

"As he was on his other dates, I felt like I was going to hit my breaking point. I didn't know if I could continue with the process,” she wrote. “He couldn't understand why I was so worried about what had happened in his other relationships and why that should affect ours. I looked at him bleakly and responded, 'I just can't fathom on my engagement day, you get down on one knee and propose to me when six days before that you were intimate with someone else.'"

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Ending Things With Peter

Prewett debated quitting The Bachelor the night she found out that Weber was intimate with another girl in the fantasy suite. While she decided to stay, things were never the same between them. “What was once pure happiness and hope was now a wall of distrust,” she wrote. “I felt trust had been broken, and I couldn't see how a relationship between us could go forward with our different perspectives on life and relationships. … Even though I felt so strongly for Peter, I knew deep down that there were major misalignments in our faith, morals, and lifestyles. I had to be willing to walk away from someone I loved so that I could wait for God's best for my life.”

The Auburn alum admitted she was tempted to stay as Weber tried to convince her, but she knew it wasn’t going to work. She wrote that she felt “so much loss” in her heart as she walked away.

“The pain of the loss was heavy; I felt crushed,” she wrote. “I cared for Peter, and I sat in the car and cried for hours, thinking about all the amazing memories we created together."

Prewett concluded that the outcome "still remained” after several months of continuing their “journey” with “many confusing twins and turns and highs and lows.”