--- title: 'Paralyzed Bride' Cut Ties With Friend Who Caused Accident description: "Every time we spoke, I just felt like I was remembering the accident" canonical: https://time.com/4308197/paralyzed-bride-ends-friendship/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-26T21:19:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:19.788Z og:title: 'Paralyzed Bride' Cut Ties With Friend Who Caused Accident og:description: 'Every time we spoke, I just felt like I was remembering the accident' og:url: https://time.com/4308197/paralyzed-bride-ends-friendship/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt214597f04d28f92c/698890b48e0601321a4659a6/paralyzed-bride-rachelle-chapman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Today - Season 61 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Paralyzed Bride' Cut Ties With Friend Who Caused Accident twitter:description: 'Every time we spoke, I just felt like I was remembering the accident' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt214597f04d28f92c/698890b48e0601321a4659a6/paralyzed-bride-rachelle-chapman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Paralyzed Bride' Ends Relationship With Friend Who Caused Accident by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Apr 26, 2016 9:19 PM UTC  Chris Chapman and Rachelle Chapman appear on NBC News' "Today" show Chris Chapman and Rachelle Chapman appear on NBC News' "Today" showPeter Kramer—NBC/NBC NewsWire/Getty Images by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Apr 26, 2016 9:19 PM UTC Rachelle Chapman was dubbed the “paralyzed bride” by media after an [incident at her bachelorette party](http://www.people.com/article/rachelle-friedman-paralyzed-bride-surrogate-pregnancy-baby-chris-chapman-laurel-humes) left her paralyzed from the chest down in 2010\. Her childhood friend, whose name she’s protected since the incident, pushed her into a pool, and Champan’s neck broke as she hit the water. Nearly six years later, Chapman is finally opening up about the relationship at the center of this trauma. “In the beginning, she was there for me and I was there for her,” Chapman told [_PEOPLE_](http://www.people.com/article/paralyzed-bride-rachelle-chapman-ends-friendship). “She was distraught and depressed about what happened. But as the years passed, she didn’t make the effort. It was just going through the motions, and every time we spoke, I just felt like I was remembering the accident and going into the pool and I had negative feelings. I didn’t feel that way in the beginning, but that’s what’s been happening over the last three years.” Chapman, 30, is now the mother of 1-year-old daughter Kaylee, who was [born via a surrogate](http://www.people.com/article/paralyzed-bride-rachelle-friedman-baby-surrogate), and has recently started to drive again. “It’s nice to finally have some independence and to know that I’ll be able to do more for Kaylee as she gets older,” she said. “It’s nice to know I can go wherever I want, whenever I want.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4308197/paralyzed-bride-ends-friendship/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4308197/paralyzed-bride-ends-friendship/"},"headline":"'Paralyzed Bride' Ends Relationship With Friend Who Caused Accident","datePublished":"2016-04-26T21:19:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:19.788Z","description":"'Every time we spoke, I just felt like I was remembering the accident'","url":"https://time.com/4308197/paralyzed-bride-ends-friendship/","keywords":["motto","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt214597f04d28f92c/698890b48e0601321a4659a6/paralyzed-bride-rachelle-chapman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt214597f04d28f92c/698890b48e0601321a4659a6/paralyzed-bride-rachelle-chapman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Today - Season 61","caption":"Chris Chapman and Rachelle Chapman appear on NBC News' \"Today\" show","creditText":"Peter Kramer—NBC/NBC NewsWire/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4308197/paralyzed-bride-ends-friendship/","name":"'Paralyzed Bride' Ends Relationship With Friend Who Caused Accident"}}]}] ```