Brad Womack shares the last time he contacted ex Emily Maynard

Brad Womack revealed that he had contacted an ex-fiancée Emily Maynard “one time” after their breakup.

“I’m a very, very respectful person when it comes to situations and if someone is in a relationship,” Womack, 52, said on the Monday, Jan. 20, episode of “Almost Famous” podcast. “I remember when I heard she got married, I reached out and said, ‘Hey, I’m really happy for you.’

Womack claims that Maynard’s Marriage to Tyler Johnson in 2014 was “just what she wanted”. (Maynard, 38, and Jones welcomed children Jennings, Gibson, Gatlin, Nola and Jones in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022, respectively. She is also the mother of daughter Ricky, 19 with whom she shared her late fiance Ricky Hendrick.)

“She wanted a marriage, a beautiful family, and she has all that and then some,” Womack said.

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Womack called Maynard “extremely fascinating,” gushing that “she’s pure to the core, just an extraordinary human being.”

“She’s a little elusive,” Womack said. “I don’t think it needs much. And I mean, in such an admirable way, when I think I’m selling myself, I’ll do anything. Just kidding.”

Womack said he admires the way Maynard “handles himself,” noting that “what you see is what you get.”

Womack popped the question to Maynard during the season 15 of The Bacheloraired in 2011 Months after the finale aired, the couple called off their engagement in June 2011. Maynard got up The Bachelor in 2012 and accepted a proposal from Jeff Holm. Maynard and Holm announced their separation in October 2012.

“We realized very quickly that we were two different people once we got back into the real world,” Womack said Monday. “I think I’m a little rough around the edges, and she’s extremely sophisticated. Again, I say this in an admirable way. And when I look at her from the outside, and I look in, and I see the life that she’s created and built, I couldn’t be happier.”

While Womack said his time with Maynard was “short,” he gushed that he “really enjoyed” his time with her. Womack added: “She has a pure soul, you know what I mean? I thoroughly enjoyed my time with her. Things don’t work out unfortunately and here we are.”

Since her split with Maynard, Womack has been tight-lipped about her relationship status. On January 1. Womack hard launched romance with a woman named Gabriella.

“We have a lot of fun together. She is an inherently kind human being,” he gushed. “I’m really happy. We are really happy together right now.”