After navigating tragedy and handing out roses, Emily Maynard Johnson found The One in Tyler Johnson.
Before her time in Bachelor Nation, Maynard Johnson was engaged to NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick. Following his untimely death in a plane crash at age 24, she learned she was pregnant. She gave birth to daughter Josephine Riddick “Ricki” Hendrick in June 2005.
Seven years later, Maynard Johnson won Brad Womack’s season of The Bachelor. The twosome called off their engagement in June 2011, several months after the finale aired. ABC subsequently named Maynard Johnson the season 8 Bachelorette and
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