FormerBachelorlead Chris Soules open up while on theAlmost Famouspodcast with two former Bachelor Nation star about how " gloomy and scared " he felt after the fateful car clangor he caused in 2017 ,   and about how he ’s now focussing on being a better person .

Soules was the lead of the nineteenth time of year of ABC ’s pop reality show back in 2015 after appear onAndi Dorfman ’s seasonofThe Bachelorette . Fans of his season will remember he take fertility nurse Whitney Bischoff   ( though the human relationship did n’t last ) , but also that his time of year was regard to be relatively uneventful and that everyone go on from him . In April 2017 , however , Soules wasinvolved in a car accidentin his house state of Iowa , which left one world - a 66 - year - old ground forces veteran - beat . The now-38 - twelvemonth - sure-enough wassentenced to two eld probationafter plead guilty to   leaving the panorama of an fortuity resulting in serious trauma , and , two and a one-half years after the accident , he ’s ready to utter more about how it ’s affected him .

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While   appearing on an in - depth installment of theAlmost Famouspodcast hosted byThe Bachelor ’s Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti ( viaPeople ) ,   the Arlington farmer said that he mat up there was"nothing left to live for"after the accident . Soules enjoin he was " badly downcast and scared"after the accident happened , and that he " did n’t need to get out of bed [ because ] there was no hope left in life for me . “Chris continued that " the worst things you could possibly think , I ’ve thought"and that there were " moment I did n’t imagine it was deserving waking up"but now he ’s taking it " one day at a time,“with a lot of help from his " first-rate supportive " family and friends . He acknowledges that this was   " atragedy that two families were becharm up in"and he says that " both folk are have an opportunity to heal as much as humanly potential from something that you really ca n’t 100 per centum mend from . ”

While some who were following the case felt that Soules buzz off off comparatively loose with his sentencing , the accident has had a lasting stamp on him and he say it ’s " something I ’ll never forget . “Soules told the Bachelor Nation podcast master of ceremonies that " life is about , not the catastrophe that you ’ve been through , it ’s about what you do afterwards and how you could move forward . “and that all you may do is"pray , work out severely and focus on being a just person,“which is what he ’s been doing for the past two year . While he ’s focussed on move forward , the 38 - twelvemonth - sure-enough reiterates that the accident is   something that he’ll"think about forever"and that he"can’t say enough how much I would take that eve back . "

When news of Chris Soules ' arrest broke back in April 2015 , it wasa traumatise storyfor fans ofThe Bachelorfranchise , and many fans followed the storey closely to find out what the solution of Soules ' sentencing would be . Now that the dust has settled , the case has been settle , and the Iowa - native has been doom , it ’s evident that Chris is regretful of what happened and is doing his best to heal , which will be a slow procedure for all involve . An event like this will delay with someone always , and it ’s clear that Chris will not blank out the stroke , or his dupe Kenny Mosher , but he ’s making the best of the post he ’s been dealt and becoming the ripe version of himself .

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