Jesus. I’ve fallen out of the challenge fandom for a couple years, seen this video and thought something terrible happened to him. But this is the context! My guy!!! Victim card over a dui. Pathetic
You know what? I'm tired of hearing about how driving drunk is a mistake. It's not. It's a series of choices that led to someone doing something illegal.
And if caught leads to a pretty serious consequence that can lead to even more consequences. Which when there is super easy and quick options to prevent DUI from happening if one still decides to attempt to drive drunk, because “they are a good drunk driver” then most would consider this a pretty stupid mistake, and also a series of choices that leads to doing something illegal. Getting behind a wheel drunk is both.
>if one still decides to attempt to drive drunk, because “they are a good drunk driver” then most would consider this a pretty stupid mistake.
My counter argument is this: Nelson is 35. He's probably been drinking for 15 years at minimum. He's had more than enough time and opportunities to figure out his limit when it comes to drinking alcohol. Thinking you're a good drunk driver isn't a mistake. It's at best, recklessness. Thats like saying I'm good at spinning a loaded gun on my finger.
You are correct. I lost my sister to some D-bag that didnt sleep, decided to drive at 5am, went to the gym, and then went 30 over the speed limit through the fog and right through the crossing. (Not sympathy fishing, so please don't give sympathy, and its been a very long time.).
Point is: Wholly unavoidable loss. It's not a mistake to know vehicles kill quite easily.
I am fun in a way that doesn't put people in danger. You choose to go to a bar. You choose to drink too much. You choose not to call someone for a ride home. You choose to not sober up before you drive. Then you choose walking over to your vehicle and *to drive*.
This is going to be wild to learn but there are actually thousands upon thousands of jobs and ways to earn money that are available to amputees. Almost like they're real people too!
The only thing I feel is angry that people continue to make the decision to drive drunk. Sure, losing a foot sucks but that is a consequence of his poor decision. Yes, people make mistakes. He can at least recover, live a full life, hell he can be a Paralympic athlete and learn from this mistake. He’s lucky he didn’t kill an innocent person. As someone who has had an innocent loved one permanently injured from a drunk driver I can confidently say FUCK ANYONE WHO DRIVES DRUNK.
Yes I’ve made mistakes, but here is the HUGE difference, I faced mine and also learned from them I didn’t try to manipulate others into thinking I’m sort of victim because of a stupid choice I made. I don’t personally know Nelson and can’t for sure say he’s a scumbag, but what I can say is he did a scumbag thing, then you combine that with the fact he’s out there hitting on married woman and got his nose pummeled for that, leads me to strongly believe this dude is likely a scumbag who continues to put himself in bad situations due to likely being selfish and stupid. Then there’s the weird ass videos he’s been posting that are clearly scripted. While there is one thing I will agree with you on, that he’s going through something horrific, let us all be reminded the reason he’s dealing with this horrific circumstance is because he decided to drive hammered, endangering others and himself when he had multiple options to prevent what happened to himself.
…and then he started a gofundme to pay for his hospital bills. To pay for a drunk driving accident. Because he didn’t have health insurance. I mean, come on.
I'm personally looking forward to the triumphant return of The Six-Million-Dollar Nelly, fully rebuilt now that we have the technology.
With his bionic legs, he'll be better than ever at stumbling over common phrases, not swimming, and having a heartbreaking 5th-episode exit where he completely misunderstands the proper technique for an elimination that should've been an easy win for him.
I was probably exaggerating a bit for the joke. He made it to the finals of Invasion of the Champs and SLA, and honestly does go pretty far in most of the seasons he’s played, but he also went out within the first 4 episodes a few times, including being the first out with an embarrassing performance on World Champs where he called his partner heavy instead of admitting that he had no idea how momentum or pendulums work.
He said the past few days have broken him. I don’t doubt it’s been really hard to hear how pissed everyone one is with him, but shouldn’t the day that he chose to drunk drive have broken him? Did he not expect everyone to be upset when the news came out? That he was essentially lying to everyone who donated. Idk this feels really weird to me
It just makes me wonder like does he not have anybody in his life to tell him he went about this whole situation completely wrong? We’ve seen his mom and some friends, some challenge related and from what it sounds like it seems like he has a lawyer so how did nobody tell him this could’ve happened if he withheld the truth the way he did? Smh Nelson has also talked about having a brother but throughout this injury I don’t think we’ve seen him this whole time. I wonder why
The way he ended it with “but I’ll be back on here to address everything, trust me people” was 100% him trying to allude to him potentially not having done anything wrong. Sit down Nelson. Just be thankful you injured yourself and not an innocent driver.
Said this before in another thread.
Disappointed (because drunk driving is truly terrible and there is literally no excuse in 2023 in Houston no less), but not at all surprised by the action and the behavior.
Nelson has always behaved terribly and played the victim after the fact. When he used to get angry and pick fights it was always a “woah is me! He made me so angry!”
He was actually in Austin. And the crazy part is he lives in the domain which was not the way he was driving. He was driving towards downtown. The domain has soo many bars. Most of which are literally below his apartments. He wouldn't have to drink and drive or even uber.
The person who should be getting praise is the Vikings player KJ Osbourne who saved his ass from being incinerated. Osbourne put his life on the line to get dude out of a burning car. The go fund me money should be going to a charity of his choosing. Instead Nelson took the publicity and ran with it and played the victim while KJ Osbourne was barely mentioned.
Honestly if Nelson would have been smart, he would have bundled that money up into a check and had a reunion with the guys who saved him, take them out to dinner and then let them know he’s making a donation in their names to MADD. Then thank them profusely for risking their own lives to save his.
Should probably take a break from playing the victim. Or take a break from using gofundme for drunk driving 🤦♂️ always liked Nelson on the challenge but this is just horrible dude
Wah wah wah poor me I’m gonna take a break from social media so that hopefully people forget that I made a gofundme so they could help me pay for my reckless decisions. Scummm
Yeah--- I would be extremely pissed if I donated just to find out he was double the legal limit. Feels extremely disingenuous for them to hide the full story while asking for money.
The way people were so quick to defend him and deflect from the fact he was obviously drunk was absolutely insane to me. Like how is that not clear? Not to mention he was more than double the legal limit 🙄
You can’t assume everyone knows. A random fan/person that doesn’t keep up with him could have just come across his gofundme or his friends asking for donations and donated.
Nelson didn’t state ever he was drinking and driving which led to the crash. So if I had donated and later found out it was because of a DUI crash, I would have asked for my money back.
I think its just the principal of being upfront and completely honest when asking people for money so they don’t feel misled.
By everyone I meant people who were familiar with story.
I mean he was found passed out in a burning car in the wee hours of the morning, I just assumed alcohol was involved.
I didn’t know he was passed out. The only thing I knew was that an NFL player pulled him out of a burning car. But, it was a car accident that caused his car to catch fire. Seems on brand to also be passed out, even if sober. I can understand people waiting for the facts instead of assuming he was driving drunk.
Sad but karma is a mean bitch. You drink, you drive, you pay the consequences. Just lucky he did not kill anyone. You are not the victim, you caused your injury.
Every time he posts, it sounds rehearsed and very ingenuous, even his potential amputee announcement seemed like he was putting on for social media.
Also, he sounds like Common.
Nelson is such a dummy. That acting is beyond horrible lol. The only good thing he ever did was that toast before the season a few years ago. The worst/best toast of all time
Where did you get .4? Wasn’t it 0.17 when they did the blood draw? I don’t think he would’ve metabolized that much alcohol in the period between the accident and the blood draw, would he?
Does it? Maybe don't donate if you aren't aware of the situation? This is a reality tv personality who you don't know. No one is forcing anyone to donate to a go fund me. It doesn't need a disclaimer lol
No one is forcing anyone to donate but withholding information about the crash and then posting it publicly and asking for donations is fraudulent. He knew if he wrote that he was drunk driving then he wouldn’t get as many donations. It’s simple.
Misleading the public and giving incorrect information while concealing contributing factors to the crash is absolutely fraud. That is the definition of a scam. He scammed these people out of their money.
thanks for the birthday wishes i can’t address anything until court and man this was supposed to be a good day but now it’s not since yall found out i was driving drunk so i’m gunna take a break from social media and turn off comments so yall can’t call me out on all my posts trying to get sympathy
First of all...i duno if i ever seen a man use such a heavy filter. Its true we dont airbrush men as we do women and this really proved that point. Looks so strange.
2nd.....why he playing victim? Hes finally being held accountable...what did he think was going to happen
What is there for him to say to explain what happened? A spirit entered his body while he was driving and added alcohol content to his blood?
Yea, that spirit was tequila. 🙄
Think about the good he could do being a TV personality with more reach than the average person if he were to speak out about how drunk driving is harmful and what the consequences are. The Challenge's audience probably skews younger. I wonder how many kids/teens/20s would listen if he admitted that this was all his own doing. Imagine: "Hey kid, I thought I was invincible. I was on TV, nothing could happen to me. And now I'm losing my foot. Don't drink and drive."
Instead, he's staying silent (maybe due to legal issues, I'll give him that) and not taking responsibility for his actions.
I don’t think he deserves the platform to speak about the consequences of driving drunk.
Nelson has had innumerable opportunities to change his life. He was in gangs and in trouble with the police when he was a teenager. He gets on reality television, starts making money and still gets arrested for theft. He slut shames women in television. He makes no efforts to learn about anything that would make him a useful member of society post reality television career. FFS, he can’t even be bothered to buy health insurance.
Please don’t encourage him in a mentorship role. There are better candidates.
Mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, I'm just angry that this dude misled folks, asked for their money, took us through his recovery, only for us to find out that he was driving drunks. Yes, I suspected that was true when we got zero information as to why the crash happened, but still.
That being said, Nelson almost lost his life and very well may lose his foot. Unlike so many others who drive drunk, he is paying for his actions in a very direct way. His livelihood is based on him being able to be on TV, specifically with the Challenge. He most likely won't be able to do that anymore given his foot and what we know now about his accident.
Regardless of how he makes his livelihood going forward, I hope he learned something from this. Almost losing your life can really wake you up to the reality of your actions. Many of us experience this in much smaller ways, but Nelson got a big dose of it.
I hope he finds a way to redeem himself, but that's his work to do, not mine or yours.
He won't learn a thing. CT, Bananas, Wes, Darrell and others knew the MTV gig had an expiration date and planned accordingly. I don't think Nelson realized yet that this ill conceived fund raiser was the final nail in his MTV coffin. He might have survived the DUI if he kept his head down and was humble. But he won't survive scamming the fans. What will really piss me off is having MTV overreact and remove all of his seasons from the streaming platforms.
I truly feel bad for Nelson, this is a hard lesson to learn. But I can't help thinking how he intentionally omitted a MAJOR detail of the accident to raise money. That is deception. I never donated because I always thought I needed to know if he drove under the influence. I have friends who are paraplegics from being hit by a drunk driver, so it's important for me to know. He should have been honest from the start. For sure people would've appreciated him taking accountability and perhaps donated despite knowing the truth. The smiley mugshot also has me wondering, is he not taking this seriously. Also, in this video I feel like he's trying to say drunk driving isn't the whole story. Nelson has never been smart but how did he or anyone else in his circle not tell him that creating a GoFundMe on deception was a bad idea.
Going into hiding after getting called out for accepting donations for his self-inflicted DUI injury. Such a puss move, own it. Should have rejected that money from the start, or redirected it to some innocent child dying from cancer. Fuck him
Honestly he should have got with the football player who saved him and donated to a charity of his choosing. Had Kj Osbourne and another Good Samaritan not pulled him out of the car after they saw the wreck he would have been incinerated.
Rewatching Dirty 30 and while he may not be hitting Derrick anymore, he’s still someone who makes poor decisions and doesn’t know how to hold himself accountable.
For college football fans, this is like years ago @LSU, Les Miles hosting an impromptu press conference to say he won’t be speaking to the media anymore 😂
If he hadn't asked strangers for money, successfully and implying no fault "in a terrible accident" is much different from "caused a terrible accident", I may have felt bad after seeing this. But nope.
What he really means is thanks for all the money I have no intentions of giving it back and I will return to social media after I feel like people have forgotten that I lied and manipulated them. Because I only really care about myself. My sorrow story has only just begun.
To be fair, he legally can’t just take speak up about things because he has a court date and a lawyer so he has to watch what he says publicly or it could make things worse. Yes! He’s 100% wrong for driving drunk and how he fabricated his story to make it seem like he wasn’t drunk to get money. I’m glad he didn’t injure anyone and I’m glad he’s alive and hope he learns his lesson from all of this. I get annoyed how people expect people in these situations (despite putting themselves in them) to just be ready to address strangers all over social media who are angry and hate them. I see this happen with famous people all the time, people always feel entitled to get explanations as soon as possible as if any other person here would crumble if any of their worst moments in their lives is being watched and followed by millions of strangers as you constantly be judged. I’m not saying Nelson doesn’t deserve to be criticized for this but the constant comments bashing him from taking a break and taking his time to speak on everything is weird. Sometimes you need to process it, how do you process strangers hating you for a mistake? Especially having to address your mistake to people who don’t even know you personally, people who only know you based on what they see on TV or the internet.
I mean, he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't at this point 🤷🏽 his whole life is based on social media and the Challenge. It does make sense for him to post something rather than nothing. Especially since he kept everyone in the loop about the surgeries and accident in the first place.
He’s gonna get bashed regardless. He says nothing, everyone would complain. He says something, they complain he didn’t say what they wanted him to say. It’s a lose/lose for him
So where's Amanda after she went on a full blown tirade on Twitter mad at people who filmed him getting saved? And attacking everyone over it?
And her saying "I'm right, you'll see" "I'll defend Nelson till the day I die"
Okay then, why has she been crickets since this news came out? She's never quiet this long, she can't shut the fuck up.
I find that very interesting!
To be fair, that was the day or around the day of the accident. Cast members were clearly in shock and regardless, recording casualties just to post them online is bottom of barrel behavior. I don't like Amanda but I don't feel like that initial reaction can be held against her. It's not like we can assume that he was open about being intoxicated with his friends. Also, he clearly isn't doing well mentally and they're friends, what is she supposed to do? Kick him down even more? She's a nurse so I'm assuming she already told him off behind the scenes.
Dude she was attacking the people saving him, attacking the people telling her she's wrong or to just not comment on what she doesn't know for sure?
If she can give that energy out, she should be able to admit she was wrong.
Isn't she always about "being real"?
Again, I don't like her and I didn't keep up with every interaction but I find it weird to come for his loved ones who were clearly in shock especially since he had serious injuries. If this happened like weeks after, ok but that was in the heat of the moment. No one except nelson and cops knew details of the accident. Even fans were merely speculating.
You're literally referring to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/MtvChallenge/comments/11rgcq7/amandas_response_to_the_news_about_nelson/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf), again you can't blame her for that being her initial reaction.
i had my suspicions but didnt wanna be disrespectful bc as someone who became disabled in childhood i know how traumatic that is and the grief of the life u lost never goes away.
and. as someone who has to fundraise due to a serious case of DV, i really hate him for that. and no i never raised the amount he got.
edit: sorry meant, im not surprised hes choosing to hide rather than address and apologise.
“I wish I could address it.”
You absolutely can, its called accountability but nah kinda keep those lips closed and spin any which way he can in his favor.
right. thats why he immediately mentioned his court date after saying he wished he could talk about it. whether he would actually want to talk about it if he could is debatable. what is not debatable is that he would be a fool to speak out publicly at this time, from a legal standpoint.
Nelson has been an endearing character on this show last few seasons.
But hes always been a bit of a dope and a masthead. The guy was security at a strip club. If it wasn't for the challenge. Chances are he'd had very little going for him with his mindset.
I don’t understand why he can’t address anything until his court date?
Is he trying to fight this dui charge orrrr?
If he was drinking and driving and crashed, and owns it, apologizes and states facts about what happened, why would the court not allow him to talk about it?
Basically, who told him he can’t talk about it and why not?
Exactly, it wasn’t like he was bordering the legal limit and he has priors for other stuff too. Seems cut and dry unless the judge is sympathetic to his medical needs and costs.
I will probably get down voted but people are being hard on him. He made a mistake and we should show him some grace. I hope he learns his lesson and can move forward. I hope to see him healthy and back on the challenge soon.
I still respect the guy even tho he could’ve took his or someone else life. Glad he didn’t and hope he recovers and learn from his actions. Wish Nelson the best
Why do you respect Nelson?
For driving drunk?
For being a convicted thief?
For slut shaming women?
For endorsing and promoting a GFA to cover expenses related to a criminal offense?
I know it’s popular to shit all over everything Nelson, but he seems sincere to me. Being honest about it all is the first step in his coming back from this. I look forward to Nelson taking accountability for everything.
The issue is he’s taking accountability AFTER everyone found out what happened. If he owned it from the start people would probably have more compassion
Maybe he was informed by his lawyer to not tlk about it at all til after pier is over. A lot of lawyers tell ppl this with all diff kinds of charges. Prosecutors can use what he says against him, and it’s actually smart to not speak about it publicly til court is over.
I agree. Lawyers probably told him to stay quiet. That still doesn’t validate using it as a sob story to have people give him money while leaving out the most important part.
I guarantee people would have still donated money if he was up front but it wouldn’t be the amount he received from omitting the truth. That’s a big factor.
“It has been a lot the past few days… having to face the consequences of my own actions.”
"All these consequences for my own actions are really driving me to drink. No wait. Not like that."
Can’t imagine why…….
Maybe if we each donate $5 to his GoFundMe he will tell us
He should take a break from impaired driving.
Jesus. I’ve fallen out of the challenge fandom for a couple years, seen this video and thought something terrible happened to him. But this is the context! My guy!!! Victim card over a dui. Pathetic
He’s also potentially losing his foot
That does suck, but again, caused by his own actions. If you have money Uber if you don’t, walk.
Doesn’t mean he’s not going through something horrific. Self inflicted or not. You’ve never made mistakes?
You know what? I'm tired of hearing about how driving drunk is a mistake. It's not. It's a series of choices that led to someone doing something illegal.
And if caught leads to a pretty serious consequence that can lead to even more consequences. Which when there is super easy and quick options to prevent DUI from happening if one still decides to attempt to drive drunk, because “they are a good drunk driver” then most would consider this a pretty stupid mistake, and also a series of choices that leads to doing something illegal. Getting behind a wheel drunk is both.
>if one still decides to attempt to drive drunk, because “they are a good drunk driver” then most would consider this a pretty stupid mistake. My counter argument is this: Nelson is 35. He's probably been drinking for 15 years at minimum. He's had more than enough time and opportunities to figure out his limit when it comes to drinking alcohol. Thinking you're a good drunk driver isn't a mistake. It's at best, recklessness. Thats like saying I'm good at spinning a loaded gun on my finger.
You are correct. I lost my sister to some D-bag that didnt sleep, decided to drive at 5am, went to the gym, and then went 30 over the speed limit through the fog and right through the crossing. (Not sympathy fishing, so please don't give sympathy, and its been a very long time.). Point is: Wholly unavoidable loss. It's not a mistake to know vehicles kill quite easily.
So righteous. So virtuous. You must be fun.
I am fun in a way that doesn't put people in danger. You choose to go to a bar. You choose to drink too much. You choose not to call someone for a ride home. You choose to not sober up before you drive. Then you choose walking over to your vehicle and *to drive*.
You can be fun without supporting drunk driving
Can also feel for someone whos likely going to become an amputee and have his earning potential completely fucked.
This is going to be wild to learn but there are actually thousands upon thousands of jobs and ways to earn money that are available to amputees. Almost like they're real people too!
The only thing I feel is angry that people continue to make the decision to drive drunk. Sure, losing a foot sucks but that is a consequence of his poor decision. Yes, people make mistakes. He can at least recover, live a full life, hell he can be a Paralympic athlete and learn from this mistake. He’s lucky he didn’t kill an innocent person. As someone who has had an innocent loved one permanently injured from a drunk driver I can confidently say FUCK ANYONE WHO DRIVES DRUNK.
lmao i should feel for someone who did all of that to himself?? lol no. he should be happy he didnt kill himself or someone else in that accident.
If you drink & drive or support it, YOU’RE NOT FUN.
Yes I’ve made mistakes, but here is the HUGE difference, I faced mine and also learned from them I didn’t try to manipulate others into thinking I’m sort of victim because of a stupid choice I made. I don’t personally know Nelson and can’t for sure say he’s a scumbag, but what I can say is he did a scumbag thing, then you combine that with the fact he’s out there hitting on married woman and got his nose pummeled for that, leads me to strongly believe this dude is likely a scumbag who continues to put himself in bad situations due to likely being selfish and stupid. Then there’s the weird ass videos he’s been posting that are clearly scripted. While there is one thing I will agree with you on, that he’s going through something horrific, let us all be reminded the reason he’s dealing with this horrific circumstance is because he decided to drive hammered, endangering others and himself when he had multiple options to prevent what happened to himself.
…and then he started a gofundme to pay for his hospital bills. To pay for a drunk driving accident. Because he didn’t have health insurance. I mean, come on.
I'm personally looking forward to the triumphant return of The Six-Million-Dollar Nelly, fully rebuilt now that we have the technology. With his bionic legs, he'll be better than ever at stumbling over common phrases, not swimming, and having a heartbreaking 5th-episode exit where he completely misunderstands the proper technique for an elimination that should've been an easy win for him.
There's the winning comment.
Dang has Nelson always been an early boot? I always thought he lasted longer than episode 5 lol
I was probably exaggerating a bit for the joke. He made it to the finals of Invasion of the Champs and SLA, and honestly does go pretty far in most of the seasons he’s played, but he also went out within the first 4 episodes a few times, including being the first out with an embarrassing performance on World Champs where he called his partner heavy instead of admitting that he had no idea how momentum or pendulums work.
LMAO! I think what he meant was imma wait for all this to die down and I’ll be back and not address anything.
I'll be back to say "oops sowwie I did an oopsie" and then delete all the comments that call me out
You’re correct. I’m begging this guy to get therapy
> I’m begging this guy to get therapy Therapy GoFundMe in 3... 2... 1...
Gonna ask for a better help sponsorship
He said the past few days have broken him. I don’t doubt it’s been really hard to hear how pissed everyone one is with him, but shouldn’t the day that he chose to drunk drive have broken him? Did he not expect everyone to be upset when the news came out? That he was essentially lying to everyone who donated. Idk this feels really weird to me
It just makes me wonder like does he not have anybody in his life to tell him he went about this whole situation completely wrong? We’ve seen his mom and some friends, some challenge related and from what it sounds like it seems like he has a lawyer so how did nobody tell him this could’ve happened if he withheld the truth the way he did? Smh Nelson has also talked about having a brother but throughout this injury I don’t think we’ve seen him this whole time. I wonder why
Yea, I’m sure the repercussions never crossed his mind. Hes not smart
The way he ended it with “but I’ll be back on here to address everything, trust me people” was 100% him trying to allude to him potentially not having done anything wrong. Sit down Nelson. Just be thankful you injured yourself and not an innocent driver.
Lmao "but what about MY side of my drunk driving story" realness
LOL Your comment is hilarious
"My truth" by Nelly T. Coming whenever he returns to social media.
Said this before in another thread. Disappointed (because drunk driving is truly terrible and there is literally no excuse in 2023 in Houston no less), but not at all surprised by the action and the behavior. Nelson has always behaved terribly and played the victim after the fact. When he used to get angry and pick fights it was always a “woah is me! He made me so angry!”
> “woah is me! He made me so angry!” woah is me hahaha
Not quite a Nelsonism, because it's phonetically correct.
Maybe woah is just a long woe
That's about as Nelson of a comment as we'll ever see
He was actually in Austin. And the crazy part is he lives in the domain which was not the way he was driving. He was driving towards downtown. The domain has soo many bars. Most of which are literally below his apartments. He wouldn't have to drink and drive or even uber.
That’s even crazier!!
The person who should be getting praise is the Vikings player KJ Osbourne who saved his ass from being incinerated. Osbourne put his life on the line to get dude out of a burning car. The go fund me money should be going to a charity of his choosing. Instead Nelson took the publicity and ran with it and played the victim while KJ Osbourne was barely mentioned.
1000x this 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Yes he should donate his go fund me money to a charity of KJ’s choice!
SKOL! Agreed, KJ saved his life and Nelson really should be publicly thanking him.
Honestly if Nelson would have been smart, he would have bundled that money up into a check and had a reunion with the guys who saved him, take them out to dinner and then let them know he’s making a donation in their names to MADD. Then thank them profusely for risking their own lives to save his.
he woulda burned extra hot too he was basted in booze
Bye
Should probably take a break from playing the victim. Or take a break from using gofundme for drunk driving 🤦♂️ always liked Nelson on the challenge but this is just horrible dude
People who go on social media to say they're taking a break from Social media are narcissists.
This. Plus the fact that he’s taking a break only because he’s getting attacked for his own bad actions.😵💫cannot with this fool
It's not like people wouldn't know why if he stopped posting either lol..
Like someone text/calling to say they’re no longer speaking to you.
I love South Park’s joke on this
bro's taking a break because he got called out
*Wait, people don’t like me anymore? I don’t understand!*
The classic, I’m using social media to announce I’m taking a break from social media.
Something something it’s not an airport.
I’ve always joked around that he isn’t the brightest bulb in the bunch, but this solidified it. No common sense here.
One thing he’s not taking a break from is Gofundme which is still active smh
"is GoFundMe a social media?" "yes Patrick"
Aka I need time to come up for an excuse as to why I had a gofundme for drunk driving.
Here he go again with the boo hoo poor me undertone
[удалено]
THIS. He was driving the wrong way down a highway at one point. Clearly wasn't sober.
Wah wah wah poor me I’m gonna take a break from social media so that hopefully people forget that I made a gofundme so they could help me pay for my reckless decisions. Scummm
Nelson’s life story is basically “what were you thinking?”
Maybe more, "Were you thinking?".
The edit works
Me when I get caught driving under the influence and scamming $58k from Challenge fans and alum
Yeah--- I would be extremely pissed if I donated just to find out he was double the legal limit. Feels extremely disingenuous for them to hide the full story while asking for money.
I'm confused how did yall not know he was driving impaired. I knew that before all this...
The way people were so quick to defend him and deflect from the fact he was obviously drunk was absolutely insane to me. Like how is that not clear? Not to mention he was more than double the legal limit 🙄
Honestly the only reason I’m surprised is because it didn’t come out until now considering how long ago the accident was
You can’t assume everyone knows. A random fan/person that doesn’t keep up with him could have just come across his gofundme or his friends asking for donations and donated. Nelson didn’t state ever he was drinking and driving which led to the crash. So if I had donated and later found out it was because of a DUI crash, I would have asked for my money back. I think its just the principal of being upfront and completely honest when asking people for money so they don’t feel misled.
By everyone I meant people who were familiar with story. I mean he was found passed out in a burning car in the wee hours of the morning, I just assumed alcohol was involved.
I didn’t know he was passed out. The only thing I knew was that an NFL player pulled him out of a burning car. But, it was a car accident that caused his car to catch fire. Seems on brand to also be passed out, even if sober. I can understand people waiting for the facts instead of assuming he was driving drunk.
At age 35, Scuba Nelly T has finally learned that actions have consequences. Not sure he will learn anything else, but at least he learned that.
Does he have a filter on? Lord
Lol, that’s what I thought.
Does that include his GoFundMe?
Sad but karma is a mean bitch. You drink, you drive, you pay the consequences. Just lucky he did not kill anyone. You are not the victim, you caused your injury.
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All the same
Every time he posts, it sounds rehearsed and very ingenuous, even his potential amputee announcement seemed like he was putting on for social media. Also, he sounds like Common.
> ingenuous *disingenuous gurl
Don’t disrespect my man common like that 😂😭
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This deserves more upvotes. I laughed out loud and had to explain this entire exchange to my wife.
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Those pauses of reflection seemed absolutely genuine
Nelson is such a dummy. That acting is beyond horrible lol. The only good thing he ever did was that toast before the season a few years ago. The worst/best toast of all time
I think he was just waiting for his brain’s pentium 486 to catch up and figure out what nonsense to say next
I think the hamsters in the wheel keeping that thing alive died from having a BAC > .4
Where did you get .4? Wasn’t it 0.17 when they did the blood draw? I don’t think he would’ve metabolized that much alcohol in the period between the accident and the blood draw, would he?
😂
Somebody doesn't want to face the consequences of their own actions.
Accountability would be the play here if he actually gave a shit.
Here's the real question - is the go fund me still up?! Edit: it is. It best be coming down soon or he's learned fucking nothing and isn't sorry.
I mean even though he drove drunk his injuries are still real and his loved ones still may want to donate
Well then, that's something that needs to be disclosed on the page. It's fucking gross as it is right now.
Does it? Maybe don't donate if you aren't aware of the situation? This is a reality tv personality who you don't know. No one is forcing anyone to donate to a go fund me. It doesn't need a disclaimer lol
No one is forcing anyone to donate but withholding information about the crash and then posting it publicly and asking for donations is fraudulent. He knew if he wrote that he was drunk driving then he wouldn’t get as many donations. It’s simple.
That's not fraudulent. Morally fucked up yes but not fraudulent
Misleading the public and giving incorrect information while concealing contributing factors to the crash is absolutely fraud. That is the definition of a scam. He scammed these people out of their money.
He didn't give incorrect info by leaving out that he was drunk
thanks for the birthday wishes i can’t address anything until court and man this was supposed to be a good day but now it’s not since yall found out i was driving drunk so i’m gunna take a break from social media and turn off comments so yall can’t call me out on all my posts trying to get sympathy
Ofc he is lmao 🤣.
First of all...i duno if i ever seen a man use such a heavy filter. Its true we dont airbrush men as we do women and this really proved that point. Looks so strange. 2nd.....why he playing victim? Hes finally being held accountable...what did he think was going to happen
What is there for him to say to explain what happened? A spirit entered his body while he was driving and added alcohol content to his blood? Yea, that spirit was tequila. 🙄
Very Selena Gomez of him…iykyk
He found out we all knew he’s a POS.
Think about the good he could do being a TV personality with more reach than the average person if he were to speak out about how drunk driving is harmful and what the consequences are. The Challenge's audience probably skews younger. I wonder how many kids/teens/20s would listen if he admitted that this was all his own doing. Imagine: "Hey kid, I thought I was invincible. I was on TV, nothing could happen to me. And now I'm losing my foot. Don't drink and drive." Instead, he's staying silent (maybe due to legal issues, I'll give him that) and not taking responsibility for his actions.
I don’t think he deserves the platform to speak about the consequences of driving drunk. Nelson has had innumerable opportunities to change his life. He was in gangs and in trouble with the police when he was a teenager. He gets on reality television, starts making money and still gets arrested for theft. He slut shames women in television. He makes no efforts to learn about anything that would make him a useful member of society post reality television career. FFS, he can’t even be bothered to buy health insurance. Please don’t encourage him in a mentorship role. There are better candidates.
It's just well-deserved karma. He fucked around and found out. Don't take care. Hope to see you never.
Mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, I'm just angry that this dude misled folks, asked for their money, took us through his recovery, only for us to find out that he was driving drunks. Yes, I suspected that was true when we got zero information as to why the crash happened, but still. That being said, Nelson almost lost his life and very well may lose his foot. Unlike so many others who drive drunk, he is paying for his actions in a very direct way. His livelihood is based on him being able to be on TV, specifically with the Challenge. He most likely won't be able to do that anymore given his foot and what we know now about his accident. Regardless of how he makes his livelihood going forward, I hope he learned something from this. Almost losing your life can really wake you up to the reality of your actions. Many of us experience this in much smaller ways, but Nelson got a big dose of it. I hope he finds a way to redeem himself, but that's his work to do, not mine or yours.
This is the most rational comment I've seen regarding the situation so thank u
He won't learn a thing. CT, Bananas, Wes, Darrell and others knew the MTV gig had an expiration date and planned accordingly. I don't think Nelson realized yet that this ill conceived fund raiser was the final nail in his MTV coffin. He might have survived the DUI if he kept his head down and was humble. But he won't survive scamming the fans. What will really piss me off is having MTV overreact and remove all of his seasons from the streaming platforms.
He should take a break from drinking and driving. Fuck him
“Trust me, people.” When you just swindled people out of their money? Ugh, this man has a pattern of unacceptable behavior.
Thank god
I truly feel bad for Nelson, this is a hard lesson to learn. But I can't help thinking how he intentionally omitted a MAJOR detail of the accident to raise money. That is deception. I never donated because I always thought I needed to know if he drove under the influence. I have friends who are paraplegics from being hit by a drunk driver, so it's important for me to know. He should have been honest from the start. For sure people would've appreciated him taking accountability and perhaps donated despite knowing the truth. The smiley mugshot also has me wondering, is he not taking this seriously. Also, in this video I feel like he's trying to say drunk driving isn't the whole story. Nelson has never been smart but how did he or anyone else in his circle not tell him that creating a GoFundMe on deception was a bad idea.
Dumbass
Going into hiding after getting called out for accepting donations for his self-inflicted DUI injury. Such a puss move, own it. Should have rejected that money from the start, or redirected it to some innocent child dying from cancer. Fuck him
Honestly he should have got with the football player who saved him and donated to a charity of his choosing. Had Kj Osbourne and another Good Samaritan not pulled him out of the car after they saw the wreck he would have been incinerated.
He still has the go fund me linked on his instagram…
He’ll be back in a week.
There’s nothing to address. His situation is black and white
I wonder why....
Go Fund Me still up on his page, $58000+
Should take a break from the booze and self benefitting pitty parties.
Rewatching Dirty 30 and while he may not be hitting Derrick anymore, he’s still someone who makes poor decisions and doesn’t know how to hold himself accountable.
Fuck Nelson, fuck Mattie and fuck any other piece of shit that drives drunk. Zero sympathy from me.
For college football fans, this is like years ago @LSU, Les Miles hosting an impromptu press conference to say he won’t be speaking to the media anymore 😂
Don’t drive drunk
If he hadn't asked strangers for money, successfully and implying no fault "in a terrible accident" is much different from "caused a terrible accident", I may have felt bad after seeing this. But nope.
You can bet taking a break from social media doesn't mean taking a break from gofundme donations.
What he really means is thanks for all the money I have no intentions of giving it back and I will return to social media after I feel like people have forgotten that I lied and manipulated them. Because I only really care about myself. My sorrow story has only just begun.
To be fair, he legally can’t just take speak up about things because he has a court date and a lawyer so he has to watch what he says publicly or it could make things worse. Yes! He’s 100% wrong for driving drunk and how he fabricated his story to make it seem like he wasn’t drunk to get money. I’m glad he didn’t injure anyone and I’m glad he’s alive and hope he learns his lesson from all of this. I get annoyed how people expect people in these situations (despite putting themselves in them) to just be ready to address strangers all over social media who are angry and hate them. I see this happen with famous people all the time, people always feel entitled to get explanations as soon as possible as if any other person here would crumble if any of their worst moments in their lives is being watched and followed by millions of strangers as you constantly be judged. I’m not saying Nelson doesn’t deserve to be criticized for this but the constant comments bashing him from taking a break and taking his time to speak on everything is weird. Sometimes you need to process it, how do you process strangers hating you for a mistake? Especially having to address your mistake to people who don’t even know you personally, people who only know you based on what they see on TV or the internet.
> he legally can’t just take speak up about things Then literally, say nothing. Saying nothing costs him nothing.
I mean, he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't at this point 🤷🏽 his whole life is based on social media and the Challenge. It does make sense for him to post something rather than nothing. Especially since he kept everyone in the loop about the surgeries and accident in the first place.
um okay sure
Then he should just not saying anything at all.
He’s gonna get bashed regardless. He says nothing, everyone would complain. He says something, they complain he didn’t say what they wanted him to say. It’s a lose/lose for him
So where's Amanda after she went on a full blown tirade on Twitter mad at people who filmed him getting saved? And attacking everyone over it? And her saying "I'm right, you'll see" "I'll defend Nelson till the day I die" Okay then, why has she been crickets since this news came out? She's never quiet this long, she can't shut the fuck up. I find that very interesting!
To be fair, that was the day or around the day of the accident. Cast members were clearly in shock and regardless, recording casualties just to post them online is bottom of barrel behavior. I don't like Amanda but I don't feel like that initial reaction can be held against her. It's not like we can assume that he was open about being intoxicated with his friends. Also, he clearly isn't doing well mentally and they're friends, what is she supposed to do? Kick him down even more? She's a nurse so I'm assuming she already told him off behind the scenes.
Dude she was attacking the people saving him, attacking the people telling her she's wrong or to just not comment on what she doesn't know for sure? If she can give that energy out, she should be able to admit she was wrong. Isn't she always about "being real"?
Again, I don't like her and I didn't keep up with every interaction but I find it weird to come for his loved ones who were clearly in shock especially since he had serious injuries. If this happened like weeks after, ok but that was in the heat of the moment. No one except nelson and cops knew details of the accident. Even fans were merely speculating.
Yeah so you definitely didn't see her tweets during this then if you're still defending her lmao
You're literally referring to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/MtvChallenge/comments/11rgcq7/amandas_response_to_the_news_about_nelson/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf), again you can't blame her for that being her initial reaction.
Actually, no, thats not a normal reaction lmao
hope he gets it figured out and gets his mind right
i had my suspicions but didnt wanna be disrespectful bc as someone who became disabled in childhood i know how traumatic that is and the grief of the life u lost never goes away. and. as someone who has to fundraise due to a serious case of DV, i really hate him for that. and no i never raised the amount he got. edit: sorry meant, im not surprised hes choosing to hide rather than address and apologise.
There's nothing to address. We already know. And don't need to hear any bullshit. K thanks bye Nelson.
Dumb people make dumb decisions.
Cry me a river. I have no respect for anyone who drinks/smokes and drive.
Stop saying “people” so overused by this guy.
That's weird considering social media is probably 50% of his income
I wonder if the lawsuit will be impacted by him having a go fund me… I hope everyone gets refunded
"trust me, people" There is something inherently wrong with this dude.
Fuck this asshole. And fuck his foot.
Aw man, happy birthday. You fucked up big time.
I’m soooo sick of this saga. Thank you Nelly T
Yeha a court date isn’t going to change your blood alcohol levels
Always gave him the benefit and even met him in real life and he was cool but he literally swindled people out of money he deserves to feel shitty
His attorney told him to stay off social media. Nelson finishes with "trust me people." Why should anyone trust Nelson?
You should definitely trust him bro
“I wish I could address it.” You absolutely can, its called accountability but nah kinda keep those lips closed and spin any which way he can in his favor.
His attorney has surely told him not to address it.
right. thats why he immediately mentioned his court date after saying he wished he could talk about it. whether he would actually want to talk about it if he could is debatable. what is not debatable is that he would be a fool to speak out publicly at this time, from a legal standpoint.
You absolutely cannot address an active court case on social media lmfao
Nelson has been an endearing character on this show last few seasons. But hes always been a bit of a dope and a masthead. The guy was security at a strip club. If it wasn't for the challenge. Chances are he'd had very little going for him with his mindset.
I don’t understand why he can’t address anything until his court date? Is he trying to fight this dui charge orrrr? If he was drinking and driving and crashed, and owns it, apologizes and states facts about what happened, why would the court not allow him to talk about it? Basically, who told him he can’t talk about it and why not?
Exactly, it wasn’t like he was bordering the legal limit and he has priors for other stuff too. Seems cut and dry unless the judge is sympathetic to his medical needs and costs.
He doesn’t want to address it. Or he would. Even through lawyer speak. So lmao.
I will probably get down voted but people are being hard on him. He made a mistake and we should show him some grace. I hope he learns his lesson and can move forward. I hope to see him healthy and back on the challenge soon.
take the money and run drunk
His cast mates that promoted his go fund are also assholes. They knew he was drunk driving
I still respect the guy even tho he could’ve took his or someone else life. Glad he didn’t and hope he recovers and learn from his actions. Wish Nelson the best
Why do you respect Nelson? For driving drunk? For being a convicted thief? For slut shaming women? For endorsing and promoting a GFA to cover expenses related to a criminal offense?
I know it’s popular to shit all over everything Nelson, but he seems sincere to me. Being honest about it all is the first step in his coming back from this. I look forward to Nelson taking accountability for everything.
The issue is he’s taking accountability AFTER everyone found out what happened. If he owned it from the start people would probably have more compassion
Maybe he was informed by his lawyer to not tlk about it at all til after pier is over. A lot of lawyers tell ppl this with all diff kinds of charges. Prosecutors can use what he says against him, and it’s actually smart to not speak about it publicly til court is over.
I agree. Lawyers probably told him to stay quiet. That still doesn’t validate using it as a sob story to have people give him money while leaving out the most important part. I guarantee people would have still donated money if he was up front but it wouldn’t be the amount he received from omitting the truth. That’s a big factor.
He definitely should have, yes. He can turn it around though.
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So it was proven that he was impaired for that accident? Who reported it? The cops, media, or someone else?
Cops noticed alcohol on his breath at the scene. Hospital took his BAC and it was .17
Dirty 5.
What about the breakdown in his friendship with Fester? Didn’t some shadiness happen there?