The lead as much as Hannah Brown’s proposal to Adam Woolard included a “full-on psychological breakdown” from the previous Bachelorette star.
Brown had a “what’s love?” breakdown, she defined whereas showing on the Tuesday, November 7, episode of the “LadyGang” podcast. Initially, the previous Bachelorette star instructed hosts Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin and Jac Vanek that she was “triggered” after spending a day along with her mother and father.
Then, the next day, Woolard revealed his plans to suggest however needed to make sure that Brown could be OK with it.
“I used to be like, ‘Why would you freaking inform me?’,” she stated. “That night time I had the full-on psychological breakdown.”
After their dialog, Brown recalled emailing her therapist with a topic line that learn: “URGENT. I NEED COUNSEL.” She went to remedy the next day.
Whereas Brown anticipated the proposal to go a sure approach as a result of Woolard had spilled the beans, he was really capable of pull off the shock.
Brown was first romantically linked to Woolard in January 2021 after they had been noticed on numerous outings collectively. They made their relationship Instagram official the next month. In Could 2022, they moved in together and Woolard proposed this past August.
On the day he popped the query, Brown believed that the couple was imagined to attend a celebration for his or her buddies who had just lately had a child. Nonetheless, it was all a ruse to cowl up Woolard’s proposal.
“I simply believed it. Truthfully, he may have had the ring laying out on the kitchen desk and, at that time, I used to be so in my very own head, I might have by no means observed,” Brown stated on Tuesday’s podcast. “That’s now I used to be at the moment. It was stunning and he was so candy, however that wasn’t the most effective of me. That was onerous.”
Beforehand, Brown instructed Us Weekly solely that she was “a little bit nervous” about revealing her engagement story publicly.
“I sort of felt like, ‘Oh, my gosh, are folks going to guage our relationship as a result of it wasn’t this easy, fairy story factor?’ And that’s what everyone appears to appear like on social media whenever you see these posts,” Brown defined to Us in September. “But it surely’s been so cool to have the ability to see the messages that I’m getting of, ‘That is how folks really really feel.’ Most individuals who’ve gotten engaged are, like, not absolutely the way in which it at all times appears. There’s some concern [and] there’s some anxiousness that goes on.”
Brown had shared on a September episode of her “Higher Tomorrow” that she endured a “panic assault” forward of Woolard’s proposal — and all of it stemmed from the truth that her therapist had suggested her to not make any “large selections” in life.
“There was quite a lot of weight on it, I assume, ultimately as a result of I’ve rushed into an engagement earlier than. It didn’t go effectively,” Brown solely instructed Us, referring to her time because the Bachelorette and prior engagement to Jed Wyatt. “So, that is thrilling, and I’m very blessed to have Adam as somebody who just is my cheerleader and needs to do life with me.”