What Happened to Cat Baugh on Below Deck Season 11?
Season 11, Episode 7 ofema href="https://www.bravotv.com/below-deck" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Below Deck/a/emsaw the departures of two emSt. David/em crew members (SPOILER): a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/jared-woodin" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jared Woodin/a and a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/cat-baugh" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Cat Baugh/a./p pWhile Captain a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/kerry-titheradge" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Kerry Titheradge/a a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/below-deck-season-11-who-got-fired-and-left-the-boat" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"fired Jared/a for not knowing his distances, for being ill-equipped to be a Bosun on a mega-yacht, and for his behavior during crew nights out, Cat chose to leave the boat on her own./p pThe stew took an emotional phone call from a friend shortly before she decided to quit, and she opened up about leaving the boat in an interview on the episode./p pAfter the episode aired on March 18, Cat's former boss, Kerry, shared an update on how she's doing today./p h3Here's What You May Have Missed on Bravo:/h3 pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/below-deck-season-11-who-got-fired-and-left-the-boat" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongOne Crew Member Was Fired and Another Left During an Explosive Below Deck: "Not Acceptable”/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/who-is-dylan-pierre-de-villiers-below-deck-season-11" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongMeet Below Deck Season 11's Late Addition, Deckhand Dylan Pierre De Villiers: "My Jaw Is on the Floor"/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/below-deck-season-11-spoilers-from-captain-kerry-titheradge" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongCaptain Kerry Titheradge Teases "Twists and Turns" on Below Deck Season 11/strong/a/p h2bWhat was Cat Baugh’s experience on emBelow Deck/em?/b/h2 pDuring the first crew night out, Cat opened up to chief stew a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/fraser-olender" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Fraser Olender/a about how she didn't feel like she was fitting in with the rest of the yachties. Plus, her conflict with fellow stew a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/barbara-pascual" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Barbara "Barbie" Pascual/a, also made things difficult for Cat./p pOn Season 11, Episode 7, Cat received a phone call from her friend, Megan./p p"I'm sorry, I know you can't talk, but she's not answering, and no one else is awake right now," Cat's friend said on the phone. "Do you have, like, a couple seconds? I'm freaking the f-ck out."/p pCat didn't share much further context for the phone call, but it did encourage her to make the decision to head back home./p p"So, I got a call from my friend, Megan," Cat explained in an interview on the episode. "This is a situation I really can't talk about, but my friends are my family, so it feels really sh-tty not being able to be there for her."/p h2bWhy did Cat Baugh leave emBelow Deck/em?/b/h2 pAfter Cat hung up the phone, she had an emotional conversation with Fraser about her place on the boat. He chatted with Captain Kerry about how he thought it would be best for Cat to leave. Kerry later spoke to Cat, and he encouraged her to take time to focus on her mental health./p p"My number one job is to take care of my crew and their health," Kerry said in an interview. "I'm well aware of mental health. She's got to go, now."/p pJust a short while later, Cat packed up her belongings, and she left the emSt. David/em crew for good./p p"I wish I could have stayed. But, the thing is, there's no way I could have," Cat said in her final interview of the season. "This is too much. I need to be with the people [who] need me, and also, on this boat, I'm at a breaking point. I need to protect my mental health. It's like my support system is at home, not here."/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="0a764eb0-e01c-49c6-a74f-ac357bcc64c1" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/below-deck-cat-baugh.jpg?itok=q9h0GfWF" width="862" height="574" alt="Cat Baugh Hugs Captain Kerry as she leaves the yacht" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Cat Baugh and Captain Kerry on Below Deck Season 11 Episode 7. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bravo /span /div /div /div /div h2Captain Kerry Titheradge shares an update on how Cat Baugh is doing today/h2 pDuring an interview with a href="https://ew.com/below-deck-captain-kerry-talks-two-dramatic-exits-exclusive-8609965" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emEntertainment Weekly/em/a, Kerry opened up about how Cat was"really struggling" prior to her departure./p p"I could just see it in her face. I didn't need to know what was going on. It didn't matter what it was. To her, it was catastrophic," he said. "And that's something else I've learned on my journey is that it's real to that person who's going through it. It doesn't matter if it doesn't affect you or how insignificant it may seem. It's real to them..."/p div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="4db5dd0a-e0f2-4dca-aa7b-7e7c386976a7" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/captain-kerry-titheradge-promotes-ben-willoughby-bosun" Captain Kerry Titheradge Just Promoted This Crew Member to Bosun /a /h2 /div pKerry has been in touch with Cat recently as well./p p"She's having a hard time seeing herself where she's at. But she said she's in a pretty good headspace. And I've shown her support — I say, look, if you need someone to talk to, I'm always here," the captain concluded./p pWatch new episodes of emBelow Deck/em Season 11 on Mondays at 9/8c on Bravo. Stream episodes the next day on a href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/below-deck/7650158968969233112" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Peacock/a./p
