Why Salley Carson Called Off Wedding Before ‘Bachelor’ Stint [Video]

Salley Carson joined the cast of Southern Charm on season 10, but her Charleston, S.C., journey began after she ended her engagement.

“When I was 22 years old, I got engaged,” Carson, 30, recalled on the Jan. 16 episode of Southern Charm. “We had the big house and like, he wanted kids, and I thought that I had everything. And then, 25 days before the wedding, I got a DM that he had been cheating on me, so I canceled the wedding and moved to Charleston. And that’s kind of when Single Salley came back full force.”

After that, Carson also appeared on Clayton Echard’s season of The Bachelor, though she left before limo arrivals. Carson describes her relationship as “really toxic” to PEOPLE, adding that now, “I’m in a completely different place than I was when I was on The Bachelor.”

Bachelor Nation gave Carson a hard time for going …