Bachelorette Winner Cheated With Two Different Women
On June 4 – eight days after he popped the question to Jillian Harris on The Bachelorette finale – Ed Swiderski slept with former girlfriend Lindsey Johnson, according to the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now).
A day later, he tried to bed a different woman, Bethany Steffen, texting her to “bring beer and condoms” over to his place, Steffen tells Us.
The humiliated women are speaking out now to warn Harris, 29, about her new fiancee’s two-timing ways.
Says Steffen, “Ed’s not worth my time, but if I can help someone avoid heartbreak, I’m gonna do that.”
According to Us Weekly, Swiderski had been dating both Steffen and Johnson behind each other’s backs prior to filming The Bachelorette in late March (the finale, taped in May, aired July 27).
Even while he was on the hit ABC show he texted Johnson that Harris wasn’t his “type” and that he prefers “all blondes,” she says. “I love you,” he also wrote her.
Us Weekly reports that he lied to Harris when he said he had to bow out of episode five because he thought he’d lose his job as a Chicago Microsoft consultant.
While away, both women say they slept with Swiderski.
He then told them he was off to “a business trip in Texas,” when in reality he returned to film episode seven of The Bachelorette and declare to Harris that he had “reprioritized” when it came to work and romance.
Of the women’s claims, Harris tells Extra, “It’s not possible… This is a bump in the road and we’ll get through it.”
But Steffen warns Harris, “Lindsey and I are both smart girls, and Ed just has this way of making people believe what he wants. Jillian needs to be careful.”
Adds Johnson, “I feel gross, used and completely violated. It shocks me that he was able to do something like that to me.”
August 5th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Wow, why would she defend him?? Clearly he is manipulative and a good enough liar to fool both of these women for so long. What a pig! Now shes just fooling herself as well.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:32 am
She needs to hurry back and BEG Reid to still want her!!!
August 5th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
This story is just as boring as that whole season of “The Bachelorette.” But nice try making us care, ABC!
August 5th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
I knew it. Not only is he so vanilla, you almost want to puke. He’s a pig. The classic pseudo “nice guy”.
Shoulda gone with Kyptyn, girl. At least he was good looking. Jeezus, look at the women he beds. UGH.
August 5th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
These women are only out to get publicity no one ever sees that now get back to reality and worry about your own lives instead
August 5th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I knew she should have picked Reid. HAHA!
August 5th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
She had to initially defend him and give him a chance to say his piece. you can’t just let people on the outside of a relationship make waves that easily without giving your partner an opportunity to explain. but in my opinion, she shoulda picked Kypton anyway
August 5th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Well, I know for a FACT Ed is a manwhore. Unfortunately, Jillian is in denial and has blinders on… Sad. She’s a stupid girl, though, I mean how OBVIOUS was Wes?! Now I can see why she needed “The Bachelorette” to find a man!
August 5th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
The girl on the right could be pre-nosejob Ashlee Simpson\’s twin
August 5th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
I think the brunette bares a striking resemblance to Jillian herself! I think this guy is a pig. i never liked him as her final pick but I really hope he\’s not going to burn her. Jilly needs to take a look at the dates of the txt msgs – maybe that will clear things up for her. I can totally see Ed being a player…dorks can be the biggest players in the world!!
August 6th, 2009 at 1:32 am
The blonde looks old enough to be Ed\\\’s mother. She looks rough.
August 6th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Wow, I always though Ed was a drag queen in discuise! I really think he is gay.