Why Catherine Giudici Got ‘Really Mad’ at Sean Lowe Hours Before Proposal

Catherine Giudici and Sean Lowe had one of their most important conversations at the very end of their Bachelor journey.

“The night before the proposal, I was at peace,” Catherine, 29, said during the Monday, August 18, episode of fellow Bachelor Nation alum Madi Prewett’s “Stay True” podcast. “I was, like, ‘You know what? I feel confident about whatever happens tomorrow. Either way, it’s going to change my life.’”

That evening, Catherine prepared for the finale with a shower and a Crest Whitestrips treatment when Sean, now 41, “demanded” to see her off camera.

“On The Bachelor, you’re talking about a lot of surface-level stuff,” Sean recalled. “I had all these important things [to talk about] with Catherine. I knew that I wanted to propose, but I [had] to make sure that she knows all these things.”

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Sean visited Catherine’s hotel room in Thailand around 11 p.m. that night.

“He comes in, and he talks at me for five minutes [with] no breath,” Catherine told podcast host Madi, 29. “I’m just sitting there, like, ‘What is happening? You just rocked my world.’ He explicitly said, ‘I will not unite with someone [who] will not make Christ the center of our home.’”

According to Catherine, she and Sean “hadn’t talked about faith” at that point in their reality TV journey.

Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici with their kids. Courtesy of Catherine Giudici/ Instagram

“I didn’t understand what he grew up with [and] what he was taught from a very young age, and how important this decision was for him,” Catherine said. “For me, I was like, ‘Cool, whatever.’ I had a weight on what marriage was, but [not] the unity and bond under God. Those are taken very differently. I was at a more surface level of understanding.”

She continued, “I got really mad because he totally dropped a bomb on me and left. I was also mad because I felt, like, he hadn’t seen that if I wasn’t there still, then I would have been up for the challenge. I would have left if I wasn’t under the understanding that [was] what you need.”

Catherine didn’t grow up overtly religious, which was different from Sean’s upbringing as a devout Christian and “born-again” virgin. During their pre-proposal conversation, Sean also revealed to Catherine that he planned to wait until marriage to have sex.

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“I was really taken aback because it’s such a dichotomy,” Catherine said. “You’re looking at this beautiful man, who all these girls are chasing. … I was surprised and I was very much taken aback, but I also knew that this wasn’t a silly decision. Like, he was very clear in his conviction about that, and so I just followed his lead.”

After they got engaged and Sean broke up with runner-up Lindsay Yenter, Catherine started pursuing her faith.

“My best friend who put me on the show picked me up from the airport, and I said, ‘We got to go to church,” Catherine said of returning to daily life after the televised proposal. “Through [those] three months that we were not physically together … [I] just went to church and I met with pastors.”

Sean and Catherine got married in 2014, later welcoming sons Samuel, 9, and Isaiah, 7, as well as daughter Mia, 5.