Lex McAllister, a contestant on Jake Pavelka's season of The Bachelor, died Tuesday of an apparent suicide by drug overdose in Columbus, Ohio, police there said. She was 31.
Denise Alex-Bouzounis, a spokesperson for the Columbus Division of Police, confirmed the death. She said police received a 911 call regarding McAllister at 2 p.m. on Saturday and arrived at her home to find her with empty prescription pill bottles.
She was taken to a hospital but her body began to shut down. At 2:39 a.m. on Tuesday, McAllister was removed from life support.
McAllister, who was 25 in 2010 during the 14th season of the popular ABC romance reality show, was eliminated on the first episode with Pavelka, a pilot (thus the subtitle On the Wings of Love).
She is not the first contestant from Season 14 to commit suicide. In 2013, model Gia Allemand died of a "critical loss of brain and organ function" two days after hanging herself with a vacuum cleaner cord from a staircase in her home in New Orleans.
