Tyler Gwozdz’s fellow “Bachelorette” contestants are grieving following his death from a suspected overdose this week.
Luke Stone, a good friend of Gwozdz’s who also competed for Hannah Brown’s final rose on Season 15 of the series, tweeted, “I lost one of my closest friends today.”
“Tyler I’ll miss you every day, miss our hours long conversations about nonsense over the phone, miss how damn funny you were, I had so much happiness and joy for what the future held for us as friends,” he wrote, adding: “I love you man, so much.”
Gwozdz died on Wednesday, the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner’s Office in Florida confirmed to Page Six. According to multiple reports, authorities responded to a 911 call for a suspected drug overdose on Jan. 13.
An autopsy report will take a minimum of eight to 12 weeks to complete. Gwozdz was 29 years old.
“We are heartbroken to hear the tragic news of Tyler’s passing today,” the dating competition show’s producers said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with the Gwozdz family and his friends.”
Fellow “Bachelorette” contestants Luke Parker, Matthew Spraggins and Grant Eckel also paid tribute to Gwozdz, an aspiring psychologist and an entrepreneur.
In a long post on his Instagram story, Parker said he was in shock and described Gwozdz as “a man with good intentions [who] wanted to make a positive impact on the world.”
“We had the chance to relate to each other as well as encourage each other on and off the show,” he wrote.
Gwozdz abruptly left Brown’s season of “The Bachelorette,” which aired in 2019, after three weeks and without explanation.
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