Bre Tiesi pushed through a 300-foot bridge challenge on Special Forces season 5, then said the obstacle felt harder than giving birth without medication. The Selling Sunset star crossed it on the Thursday, October 1 episode after admitting she was afraid of heights and worried she might not make it across.
“Child labor was better than this - with no drugs,” she said during the episode of the Fox reality series. The line landed after she and Colin Gosselin were required to move across a bridge suspended above the Malaysian jungle canopy, a setup that turned the test into one of the season’s most severe physical beats.
Bre Tiesi and Colin Gosselin
Bre Tiesi had already told the directing staff, “I'm not okay,” and then, “I don't think I can do this.” Colin Gosselin kept her moving by reminding her that her son was watching, and she answered, “My kid told me I was an idiot for this and he's only 3.” They finished with seconds to spare, which is the difference between surviving a televised obstacle and becoming another recruit sent home by hesitation. Candace Cameron Bure Leads Special Forces: Season 5 Cast Reveal had already framed the season’s cast, but this bridge sequence is the kind of pressure test that gives the show its value.
300 feet above the canopy
Bre Tiesi had said before the season premiered that she wondered if she could die during filming, and that fear never stayed abstract once she reached the bridge. She had also described her fear of heights as “crippling,” so the obstacle forced a direct collision between the reason she joined and the thing she feared most. That is the useful reading of the scene: this was not just a difficult stunt, but a threshold moment where the recruit’s stated limits met the season’s design.
“I never want to do that ever again in my whole life,” she said after finishing. The bluntness fits the performance on the screen: she did not finish gracefully, but she did finish, and that keeps her in the competition long enough for the next obstacle to matter more than the panic that came before it.
Legendary Love in 2022
Bre Tiesi has said, “I can't rely on Nick, he's busy, so I need to get home to my child,” and, “My only responsibility is to him.” She and Nick Cannon welcomed Legendary Love in 2022, and she has described the relationship as open. That context explains why the bridge sequence carried more than a game-show payoff; she entered the competition partly to find out what she could handle, and this round gave a hard answer.
How she performs after this bridge remains the next real test. For now, the season has already shown that fear did not stop her from crossing, and in a competition built on endurance, that is a line worth more than a speech.
