'Bachelorette' Contestant Eric Hill In a Coma

ByLESLEY MESSER ABCNews logo
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

One of the competitors on Andi Dorfman's season of "The Bachelorette" has been in a terrible accident.

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Eric Hill, an adventurer who sought to visit every country in the world in less than 1,200 days, was involved in paragliding accident Sunday that left him in a coma.

"Things are not looking good right now..." his team wrote on the Facebook page for his journey, Go with Eric. "Please, all across the world, even if you're not a praying person, please pray for him. He needs your prayers more than ever."

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According to reports, Hill's parachute collapsed while he was paragliding in Utah with a friend.

The California native, who called his trip around the world, "The Global Odyssey," did not seem to be filming the ABC reality series at the time of the accident.

A rep for "The Bachelor" had no comment.

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