Lauren Bushnell and Shawn Booth Recall ‘Bachelor’ Producer Evoking Emotions Through Crying and Music

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Lauren Bushnell Lane and Shawn Booth bonded over their similar — and slightly alarming — experiences with their mutual Bachelor Nation producer.Lauren, who was engaged to season 20 Bachelor Ben Higgins from 2016 to 2017, claimed the producer fake cried in an effort to make Lauren upset about the possibility of Ben giving JoJo Fletcher his final rose.“I’m calling Todd out right now,” Lauren told Shawn, 37, on his “In The Booth” podcast on Monday, July 31, noting that she has “zero hard feelings” toward the producer. “I think he’s a great guy, [but] I literally remember sitting there at the end — I think it was myself and JoJo.

It was, like, the final two. … He’s like, ‘What if he doesn’t pick you?’ Or whatever. And I think he could tell that I was just kind of like, shutting off to protect myself, which I’ve realized is something that I do.

So I wasn’t really showing any emotion. And I think he wanted to draw out emotion in me. So, like, he started to cry. Did he ever do that to you?”Shawn confirmed he had a similar experience. (While the former contestants didn’t use Todd’s name, they are seemingly referring to Todd Snyder, who worked on both of their seasons.)“Yes!

They’ll start playing music on their phone, like, really sad songs and you haven’t heard a song in, like, eight weeks, you’re like, ‘Oh, my God, that feels so good,’” Shawn recalled.While Lauren clarified that she “didn’t hear a song,” she shared more insight into her interaction with the producer on the 2016 season of the ABC show.“He just started showing emotion and, like, started crying,” she said, claiming that she realized in the moment that they were fake tears. “He wasn’t really crying.