The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Infamous: Chad Johnson Part 2
Episode Date: August 18, 2025We continue our conversation with Chad Johnson, the most unforgettable villain from Bachelor Nation. Chad opens up about how he developed his on-screen persona, and he has an honest message for J...oJo Fletcher, Lace Morris and Sarah Herron. Plus, Chad reveals how his legacy as a “villain” has affected his life after leaving the show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sometimes roses are red flags.
Welcome back to Infamous, because something
times roses are red flags. This is Bob Guinea. I'm filling in for our lovely host, Ben and
Ashley. This is part two of our interview with Chad Johnson. Let's talk a little bit about
Paradise. I know, you know, you were obviously someone who I'm sure was a, you know, an immediate
choice for the producers. We got to have this guy on Paradise. And that kind of extends your,
you know, extend your fame, obviously, but also kind of puts you back in that in that headspace.
Um, you know, there's a couple moments.
I remember, um, you know, uh, for example, lace on the show.
Um, a lot of people mentioned that one as, as moments where, you know, did you think she
was trying to be genuine with you or did you think she was coming at you from like a producer's
putting her up to it or what was your thoughts on that?
I kind of had two thoughts with her, which like in one thought, I was like, oh, she knows she's
crazy and like, I like it.
Like that's, we're having fun.
Yeah.
You know, like, okay, I like somebody that can let loose.
in that time again. I was, you know, drinking and being wild and stupid. And I wanted somebody
that would do that with me. That was kind of like, hey, be a partner in idiocracy. And so that
was great. You know, I actually kind of was open to that. But then in the other pocket as well,
I was like, this is great. We're going to be the whole show. Like, right? Right. Right.
Like, I was like, this is fantastic. Yeah. And I had had conversations with producers before
I came in because I had the opportunity like, should I, you know, because by the end of like the
Bachelorette, I was going to get like, that's when I was getting bad, bad, bad, bad.
And I talked to them, like, should I go back to like, can I go be me or like, do you want me to
keep doing that, you know? And they were like, you can dial it up if you want. And I was like,
okay, if I'm going to dial it. Like, so this, everything that happened in Paradise Night, not the
specific things that happened, but it was all like pre talked about. You know, it was all like,
hey, I'm coming in and I told them, I'm going to be a fucking nutcase first day. Like,
if this is what you want, I'm going to be insane the first day. And I,
I'm going to give you previews.
You're going to have great preview.
Like, it was kind of strategical, and I don't know if you're supposed to be that
strategical.
But I was like, you're going to have great previews for the show.
And so, like, let me help you and then you help me.
I'll be crazy for the first episode.
You'll get your great, and trailers and previews that you're going to be able to use.
And then I'll go back to being normal the second day.
And then you guys, like, let me actually date.
Like, let me do what I want to do, you know, pushing me to be that character, you know.
Yeah.
But, but yeah, the lace thing, I really thought we had it.
and we were playing the role together and it was like hey we're both going to play this role
together and i actually kind of do really like you and then all of a sudden like just one minute
she just snapped and turned and was like i'm not like this i'm like what are you talking about
like we're doing this for like seven hours straight like yeah time so it was really
confused so was she just going down the rabbit hole and then changed your mind or like what do you
think happened so i think they i think one of the girls there must have talked to or maybe it was a
maybe someone was like if you do hang out with him you're going to look bad or something yeah i don't
know but i mean i do know it would have been in like strategically to keep playing you know
the stupid thing we were doing right and just gone to bed separately and and then the next day talked
and had dinner and stuff and gone on the flow with the show but right right i felt i felt abandoned
you know because i was oh sure i found my part you know i'm in this alcoholic type episode because
because they gave me, you know, well, they didn't give me, they handed me a bottle of Jack Daniels
and I had half the bottle before 8 a.m. that day.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, so I was.
That's not the breakfast of champions necessarily, right?
No.
So I didn't remember anything.
Like, literally, I remember stepping onto the beach.
That was, that was like, that's it.
Everything else is literally in blackout mode.
Man.
Yeah, it just, it didn't go as planned.
and I'd change everything.
But again, it was one of those things where when you're in the middle of an alcohol problem,
probably should be going on a dating show.
Yeah, I mean, there were some moments, obviously.
You had a couple things, you know, this might have been one of the previews you were looking to give them, right?
But, you know, I'll, you know, like, I'll murder everybody on this thing and your family and some stuff like that.
I mean, was that one of those moments?
I mean, that's a pretty intense thing to say.
Did that ever come back around to bite you, you know, afterwards?
I mean, like, you know, obviously I know you said it did emotionally from the standpoint
of dealing with all that stuff, but ever have any like real life run-ins with people
because of stuff you might have said on television, like somebody's family members
or anything like that confront you or anything like that?
No, so that was me saying all that stuff.
That was just like me and my friends would try to make the joke, like the worst possible
jokes to each other whenever we were drinking or whatever.
And so that's what that, you know.
And it did.
honestly that's a good point i kind of wanted to bring that up it really screwed me over because so
i had i had a girlfriend and and um here's one thing i don't know if you ever heard like i had a domestic
violence thing a few years ago i had a girlfriend who said that i hit her right um she had videos
of me yelling because i was drunk and and yeah i did yell like you know i was being an idiot
yelling and like hitting the door and stupid stuff like that and i don't even know what i was mad at but
but I've never laid hands on a girl.
But I played that character and I said those things.
So everyone automatically said, yes, it must be true.
I saw him be this way on TV.
So yes, he must have done it.
No one took two seconds to play skeptic at all.
So 100% it's affected me.
Yeah.
I mean, it's where I have to be extremely careful in relationships now because
like, oh, the bad boy did something bad.
You know what I mean?
Anyone can make up anything about me.
And people are going to be like, well, yeah, the bad boy did something bad.
And I'm like, no, but I don't actually do anything bad in real life.
I just, but who's going to say, no, he didn't?
Everyone's going to think you're the cool person.
Well, with that in mind, I mean, when people look back at the show and they, you know,
obviously these clips are going to be around forever, right?
I mean, it's when they, when they look back at the show, what do you wish they would have seen,
you know, in those moments?
Like, you know, if you had some of them to do all over again, like you think about,
you know, like the moment you have with Sarah Heron, for example, you know, I know you later said
you were disappointed in yourself for that. I mean, if you had a minute to sit with any of them
and, you know, what would you want to say to him? Well, I did find out, not to like cover myself
or anything, but I didn't, they added that sound bite of the arm thing in from a, from a, like
an interview I had with one of them. They made it look like I said in front of the whole group,
which I didn't do it. I didn't realize that until years later. But, but, but, you know, you
Yeah, just, I mean, the stuff I was saying, you know, but I got caught, you know, like I was making horrible jokes because, again, that's what I did with my friends back home.
And when I'm that many drinks deep, you know, I started making those jokes again.
What's the worst thing I could possibly say?
And I'm sitting there with a producer that I thought was my friend.
Yeah.
There's a, you forget, there's a massive camera and an audio guy standing there.
And you're making these horrible jokes like you would to your friend just.
just to get a chuckle out of your friend, you know, something you would never want the other person to say,
especially never want the entire country to hear.
So, I mean, if I could take it all back, the number one thing I would do is just not drink.
That would, that would, that would, people don't understand how much that would have changed.
I mean, the whole, my whole life would be different if I didn't drink that day.
I have no idea where I would be, honestly.
Yeah.
No, I understand.
I mean, it's a lot, I mean, a lot of people say that, you know, they, a lot of people
become a different person when they drink. And, you know, that's one of those things you hope that
you hope you become a kind or gentler version of yourself, but you also can put yourself in a spot
where, you know, but, you know, like you said, you wish you wouldn't have done it on national
TV. You wish you wouldn't have done it when all these people were hearing you, well,
well, a lot of those same people will hear you now. So if you had something you wanted to say to
Sarah, to Lace, or to Jojo, you know, you can say it now and they, and they would hear it.
And, you know, you could let them know that, you know, you own those moments and you, you know,
you also, you know, aren't that guy or whatever, or whatever you, you know, might want to say.
I mean, I'm sorry, Sarah. I'm sorry, Lace. I'm sorry, Jojo. I'm sorry for everything.
You know, I mean, it's not this, it's hard to apologize for the guy because it's so long ago,
you know, but me, me now, I'm so sorry, but I wish I could take it all back.
Yeah. You know, man, I mean, I think it's one of those things you go through some,
some phases in life, right?
And yours just happened to play out on national television on a, on a huge stage.
And, you know, it is tough to take that back.
But, you know, I'm sure they'll see that.
And, you know, who knows, maybe it'll affect you guys when you get a chance to cross
paths again, you know, in the future someday, if you do, right?
So, I mean, if they came to you today and they were like, you know, hey, Chad, we're going
to do another version of Bachelor in Paradise, it's going to be the villains, you know.
uh would you what would you do like would you would you would you allow yourself to go back to that
character or do you think you or would you even do it i guess it's first and foremost and if so would
you allow yourself to go back to that character or would you go back on and be like there is no way
i'm going to let myself be edited like that guy there's i'm coming 100 percent from the heart you know
what would your choice be in that matter i don't think i could play that character anymore like it
it would be too inauthentic at this point you know um if they ever wanted me to do something at this
point now, it would 100% be like, you need to let me be, like, let me be regular, you know,
let me be good like I originally intended, you know, and I just have to not let myself
slip into doing something. But, you know, to be honest, I don't think they would ever call
and I don't, I don't really have any need for that stuff anymore. Yeah.
My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly. And now I'm
seriously suspicious. Oh, wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit.
Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon.
This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot.
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Do you return to the scene of the crime?
Or do you just say, you know what?
I'm going to, you know, I don't need to go on a TV show again to show everybody who I am.
I already know who I am in here and I'm going to prove it in other ways.
You know, you've got a lot of choices to make in those moments, I'm sure.
I mean, it would be, I guess there would be some positive to it.
You know, so for the most part, the last 10 years now, I just keep to myself because I never know what people are thinking of me because or what show did they see or, you know, which scene to remember, you know.
because I've had people where I'm nice to them
and I'm nice to them for an hour and a half
and then they're just like, you know, at the end
and I'm like, you're mad
because the show six years ago,
you know, like we just
have a great time. So it's weird.
I was going to ask you that.
I was going to ask you if you've ever had,
you know, I heard about
a few people like having experiences where they'd be at a bar
and someone will throw a beer at them and
they're like, what is going on?
You know, I was wondering if that ever
was an experience that you had because, you know,
some people, they might have that image of you in their head and not even give you a chance
to, you know, possibly show them else otherwise.
I've probably had, I mean, a dozen times where I'm with, you know, a girlfriend and I'm,
you know, at a restaurant or a bar and I go to the bathroom and either a girl or an old lady
or somebody will come up to my girlfriend and say, you need to get away from him, you know,
like he's crazy.
And it's like, and it got to the point where I'm like,
Like, let me know which one comes up and says something, you know, just because I'm going to be curious, you know.
Right, right.
At the point where I go talk to these people and be like, why did you do that?
Like, you know, you're watching a TV show, right?
Like, you're not going to go yell at Dwight from the office.
Right, right.
I think in that regard, you know, people see a reality show, and to them that is reality, you know,
and not realizing it's a television show that is produced and everything else.
And so, you know, I mean, I guess I could see the confusion, but I also, you know, can see it from from the standpoint of, hey, man, that was 10 years ago.
And, you know, yeah, I did some crazy stuff on that show, but I'm trying to own it now.
I mean, it would be hard.
It would be really hard, I would think, you know, taking it on your word that you're a totally different guy now, because I obviously don't know you.
So I would say taking it on your word that you are, it would have to be really difficult to have people still throwing stuff at you from, you.
10 years ago that you might not even remember having done, right, given the circumstances.
All the time.
And I mean, I guess the one thing I couldn't imagine is, like, all the guys that got out of the show, right,
and they either had a good portrayal or they, you know, they stuck to their guns and they just
stayed true to themselves.
You know, like, that had to be so crazy to, like, to go out and you know people are thinking
positively of you.
You know what I mean?
Just to, like, you go out to a local restaurant.
Like, when I go out anywhere, like, I just went to, you know, with my father yesterday.
yesterday when I went and had lunch sitting at a restaurant and I like see you know some girls looking at me and I'm like they think I'm an asshole they probably think I'm an asshole like they're probably thinking what's gotta be hard that's that's got to be hard what's this jerk moving in Oklahoma or you know like yeah yeah but it's like every time like every interaction all the time until I get some form of like comfort so I I've been keeping myself for a decade you know so right right I get it that's heavy tough you know don't think that way yeah well I mean when you look back on it too um
You know, if you had to, if you had to think about it from a, on a zero to 100 scale, you know, what percentage of, of your actions and your words and your, you know, responses, I guess, your emotional responses, do you think we're influenced by the producers on that show from a zero to 100 scale?
I mean, I think it was once there was the producer, so it was from like episode one or two, basically, once the producers influenced that, hey, we want you to go this direction.
and we want to see more of this side of you,
then I didn't need really that much, you know what I mean, influencing.
Yeah, you were just going.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
But I wouldn't be on, you know what I mean, that same path.
Yeah.
So it's like from what I actually would do to where I, you know what it was, is huge,
but it didn't require any producer, you know, interruption,
but also I wouldn't even be in, let's say, this entire, like I'd be in an argument
or I'd be in, you know, just in the middle of a scene or something.
And I'm like, you know, I wouldn't be here had it not happened three weeks ago or six
months ago that, you know, we split into this, of this direction.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I'm curious, too, like that, kind of like the, I guess it was sort of like the
swan song for you on the show, but, you know, the final interview you had with Chris Harrison.
And, you know, on Bachelor in Paradise when he was like, okay, it's time to leave.
know what that had to be i would imagine that was probably the because chris was obviously the
one you know uh staple of the show every season up until that point you know um you know
was that one that resonates a lot with fans to this day yeah people like that one um that to be
honest though if you if you compare these two things you'll immediately make the connection but
have you seen eastbound and down kenny powers yeah that's that's all i did i just before i went on
the show, I watched like episodes over and over and over in case I needed to keep that character
as a backup. And so the moment they told me they were kicking me off, I was like, all right,
well, I know that that character is popular over here. And it's doing well, I could just
play that character here. And it will, you know what I mean? So it was like, it was my Hail Mary
as like, you're kicking me off. Let me give one bass, like last big little fireworks show.
Right. Yeah. Well, it was that, it happened. You were able to do that.
It was definitely there.
I mean, it's one of those things I think, you know, especially now where there's so many seasons of the show, you know, there are some standout moments over the years for better or for worse, right?
And you never think about it.
Although, oddly enough, it was the first thing I thought of when I found out I was going to get to talk to you was I was like, man, I wonder how this has affected him over the years because I can't imagine it's been easy to live that down, especially, you know, with like you say, that isn't who you feel you are, but you're kind of.
that's going to live in people's head rent-free for a really long time.
Oh, yeah.
You know?
I mean, I'll tell you one thing, you know, like, the one thing that's taught me is that no one,
like, you can say anything to me.
I won't get upset.
No one can make me upset, like, at all because I have seen, I have heard the worst
things that human can possibly hear day in, day out, hundreds of comments a day,
people in person.
So after just years of that, I'm just like a.
stone wall, which is kind of like a superpower in a way, because I choose, I choose when I'm
happy, I choose when I'm sad, I choose when I'm upset. Like, no one can affect me anymore, but
has that been, I mean, did you, did you seek therapy? Did you go to see somebody? And like,
I mean, it was this all self? Yeah, I mean, I, there's no shame in that game, yeah. I'm just
curious, you know, I think I would have for sure. I went to probably three or four therapists.
I've read probably five dozen books, I guess.
you know yeah then just spent hundreds thousands of hours just meditating watching whether
youtube videos and on you know spirituality and trying to find god and trying to find meaning and
what was the point of all this and why did this happen am i supposed to become stronger like is
that why did i put myself in this position for this you know what i mean yeah did i bring this on
myself on purpose you know it's like so i don't blame anyone or anything it's like i definitely put
myself here for some reason whether I like it or not because when they when they started trying
to push this character I could have gone you know the other way right right but I didn't so you
made the choice right you made the choice you went with it and got the good the good of it which I guess
was a lot of at that time anyway a lot of camera time and then you got the bad of it which as a
result of that camera time you got a lot of backlash and a lot of tough years tough years that
you had to live with some stuff right I don't like that you know the people that inherit a lot of
money randomly when they're a kid they never really appreciate it that type of thing they never
get to learn the desperation that it takes to like build a successful business i put i forced myself into
desperation through the the turmoil and trauma that i had to take you know like forced myself to go
through a decade of trauma by putting myself into that character playing that role and taking heat
for it and so now the things that i know the things that i force myself to study and with meditating
and god and spirituality and just learning and learning business and have to take care of
myself because no shows are calling and no business will take me because it couldn't work a job
any job I was going to work all I was going to do is end up talking about the show you know right
so I got a way to make money online yeah that's what my life has been and I think it's got me to a
better place it took a very long time it wasn't fun but I'm happy I'm here now you know I think
it's made me a much stronger person that I would have been had I not put myself into that
terrible position right still would go back and change it yeah
No, I understand. I understand it. I mean, it's definitely, it's interesting to hear you talk about it.
And, I mean, I'm sure, you know, I don't pretend to know you or your family, but I'm sure, you know, you set out to make your mom proud, right, by going on television and doing that stuff.
And, you know, she'd probably be a lot more proud of the person you are right now from all the work you've done on yourself than, you know, just from having been on television.
And I don't know you, so I hope you don't take offense to me saying that.
it, you know, you can tell you've done some work, you know, and that's tough to do, man.
It's a tough thing to do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's been a long road.
Yeah.
Well, I really appreciate you coming on and talking to us today.
Thank you for being a part of the show.
I think, you know, like you said, you, you know, hopefully this opportunity to kind of air some stuff out will make you feel a little better about, you know, the experiences that you've had.
And, you know, it's not an easy road to get anywhere, right?
The journey is always, you know, the fruit, right?
Everyone thinks the destination is the most important part, but it's getting there.
That's the tough work.
I don't know about that one.
I'm happy with the destination, but the journey was not on this last night.
Well, you put in the work, man.
And, you know, I wish you the very best.
And thank you so much for making time for us and for being vulnerable and being willing to talk about this stuff.
I'm sure it's not easy.
Yeah, for sure.
Thanks, Bob.
You're welcome, man.
All right, we'll take care, Chad.
Thanks for being on Enfamous, man.
We appreciate it.
All right, thank you.
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