Brad’s stepsister Sandra says that Brad had to endure both physical and emotional pain at the hand of his stepdad Charles! Could this explain Brad’s anger issues?

Bachelor Brad Womack had a very trying childhood. First his birth father was hardly ever around. Then his stepfather, Charles Pickelsimer, got emotionally and physically abusive with Brad, according to Brad’s stepsister Sandra.

“He had a very bad temper,” Sandra tells Star magazine.

Sandra describes one incident where she was arguing with Brad in the car when the family was on the way back from church — and Charles got extremely irrational with them.”The spanking felt more like a whipping,” admits Sandra.

“I remember threatening to call someone,” she adds. “Looking back, I wish I hadn’t been afraid. We were all in fear.”

BFFs — do you think the way Brad’s stepdad treated him as a kid party caused Brad to have such outrageous anger issues as an adult — and couldn’t make it work with his former fiancee Emily Maynard?

- Lindsey DiMattina

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