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On April 21, news broke that Madison Prewett revealed Bachelor Peter Weber asked her to get back together just days before he was spotted with ex-contestant Kelley Flanagan. Obviously, this was a huge bombshell.

“He was, like, calling me and texting me being like, ‘I miss you, let’s get back together,’” Prewett told Kaitlyn Bristowe on her Off the Vine podcast, according to Us Weekly. “I mean, I think that to me was a little confusing, but I think, like, when you break up and you’re going through a heartbreak and you just came off a show that was emotionally, physically, and [every] which way exhausting, everybody handles that differently. Everybody leans on different things.” She added that it felt like a personal jab when the photos of Weber and Flanagan came out on her birthday.

Weber swiftly replied to Prewett’s comments. “You’d think you’d have a little more respect for this situation given we both know there’s more to the story,” Weber wrote in an Instagram comment, tagging Prewett.

This isn’t the only controversial Bachelor moment Prewett touched on during her interview with Bristowe. She also had a lot to say about the infamous showdown between her and Weber’s mom, Barb, during the “After the Final Rose” special. The couple, as you know, broke up just days later after a “super sad” six-hour conversation.

Now Prewett is finally ready to talk about how she felt in that moment during the live show with Barb. “I wish that I would have just apologized and been apologetic in that moment,” Prewett admitted to Bristowe, per Us Weekly. “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.”

Prewett added that they had “overcome so much” and were “trying to fight so hard” for their relationship at the time. “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,” she said.

Who knows if we’ll hear from Barb about all this in the days to come, but I hope the group can finally put this all behind them.

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The first time I stepped foot into my local rock climbing gym with my husband, my immediate thought was, Screw this. I watched my six-foot-tall husband easily reach and grab moves that seemed downright impossible for me. With his arm span, he had a full two feet of reach that I (at 5’1″) would never have. His hands were strong and calloused and so much bigger than mine. His abs were tightly knit where mine would forever be separated by the hernia I was left with after giving birth three times. His natural advantages seemed insurmountable. The whole gym was full of men with long arms and legs and biceps that defied logic. My husband looked like he belonged there, simply by virtue of his build and manhood. I did not.

It was an infuriating and familiar sensation, because it so starkly and physically resembled the world as I had always known it. Men walked in this space with ease because they knew it was built for them (literally, by a team of male route setters). It was obvious that I would have to be twice as good to climb half as far. And damn did it make me want to prove myself. So instead of throwing up my hands and sitting in the loft to read (which was tempting, trust me), I threw myself into rock climbing with the singular goal of outclimbing my husband. No, not for my own personal growth, nor for the satisfaction of learning a new skill—I just wanted to beat the men.

I knew the road ahead of me was going to be long and frustrating, so I sought out all the support I could. I watched the female climbers at my gym and learned from their body movements. I stayed up late watching YouTube videos to teach me footwork. I attended every climbing workshop the gym offered. I joined all-female rock climbing groups and researched training regimens. I fell hard. A lot.

The falls themselves weren’t the worst part—it was the dudes watching. Men would swoop in with their advice for my hand placement and sequence. There were those who would wait for me to ask when I was truly stuck on a move, or who would at least ask if I wanted advice (those are the men I still climb with today), but many would rush in before I had even brushed off from the fall, assuming they knew the potential and limitations of my body better than me. Or perhaps they didn’t consider my body at all, assuming that their experience was universal, that if only I would try to climb like a man I would succeed.

I knew, of course, that success would never be that easy for me. In the gym, as in life, things were not built with women in mind. We were allowed of course, but our place had to be earned and at a much higher price. Technique was paramount. Lazy climbing wasn’t an option. You had to be more flexible, hit holds with greater precision, stretch yourself to more stringent limits, jump harder and higher in proportion to your build. And that was just to get on equal footing with men. To be better? That required learning to climb like a girl.

While the gym was saturated with men, there were women I began seeing time and again during my training. Their movements were mesmerizing, and much of the gym would stop to watch them as they ascended some of the highest grade routes on the wall. No one dared to spew advice at them when they fell. They were fearsome and inspirational, cocky and confident, because they had earned their place in a way no one else had. They showed me exactly the kind of climber I aspired to someday be.

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