Bekah Martinez didn’t find love on “The Bachelor,” but she also didn’t go rogue and turn up on a marijuana farm, either.
Following her elimination on Monday night’s episode, the 22-year-old nanny appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to address how and why she ended up on a California missing persons list in the first place.
“A lot of people thought I lied to my mother saying that I was on a farm when I was actually on ‘The Bachelor.’ But no, I had already been eliminated from the show,” Martinez explained.
After “Bachelor” Arie Luyendyk Jr. gave her the boot from romantic Tuscany, Martinez and some pals decided to retreat to the mountains.
“I was there for six or seven days without phone service, which I thought I was going to have phone service and I told my mother that I would,” Martinez said.
“I just had this weird feeling on the sixth or seventh day: ‘I need to go home now,'” she continued. “So I got in my car, drove to where I had service, called my parents and then come to find out only 12 hours before my mother had called the Humboldt Sheriff’s Department saying that I was missing.”
Martinez was reported missing last November, with her mother alleging she had planned to work on a marijuana farm. The reality star maintains she is still a nanny.
“To set the record straight, I’m not a weed farmer,” she said. “I’m still a nanny in LA. But yes, my friends have a weed farm.”
Martinez previously joked about the incident on Twitter, prior to her elimination from the show.