Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Southern Charm’s Salley Carson Reflects on ‘Traumatizing’ Bachelor Experience

Salley Carson
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Raise your hand if you remember seeing Southern Charm star Salley Carson on The Bachelor Season 18. That was Clayton Echard’s season. Salley must have had a premonition of the trainwreck that season would be, since she had the good sense to leave early.

She followed up her Bachelor stint with a short-lived trip to Bachelor in Paradise. I actually remember her on this one, since there was something about her luggage having a life of its own. She was Suitcase Girl!

The whole Bachelor experience left her “traumatized.” In the below interview with Page Six journalist Evan Real, she explains why.

Salley Carson “was seriously traumatized on The Bachelor”

Apparently, when Salley went to meet Clayton on the Bachelor, she had recently broken an engagement. In fact, it was rumored that she had celebrated her bachelorette party in Mexico just weeks before filming began.

Despite the broken engagement and lost luggage of it all, Evan Real found another aspect of Salley’s reality TV journey more interesting. “You might be the first Bravo celebrity to ever make the jump from Bachelor Nation … over to the Bravo world,” he said. “But now it’s happening again with Ashley [Iaconetti]. She’s gonna be on [The Real Housewives of] Rhode Island.”

“That’s going to be amazing,” Salley said. “I love her. She’s great.”

“She’s a crier,” Evan pointed out. “We love a crier in reality.”

Moving on, Evan asked, “What are … the differences in filming a show like The Bachelor versus a Southern Charm or a Southern Hospitality [on which Salley also appeared]?”

“It’s night and day,” she answered. “I mean, I was seriously traumatized on The Bachelor … They take everything from you, like your phone, all of that stuff … I feel like it’s easier to be yourself when you have [access to the outside world].”

“They just kind of tell you what to do,” she added. “I really wanted to get out. I was like, I’m still in love with my ex-fiancée. It’s not even been that long since, you know, he cheated on me. I’m … not ready to be in love again.”

“They were all trying to get me to stay,” she concluded. “And I was like, ‘Guys, I gotta go.’”

Southern Charm airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo. It streams the next day on Peacock.

TELL US – DO YOU THINK SALLEY MADE THE RIGHT DECISION TO LEAVE THE BACHELOR?

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