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Rachel Lindsay Breaks Silence After Finalizing Bryan Abasolo Divorce, Slams His ‘False’ Claims
Rachel Lindsay has broken her silence three days after her divorce from ex-husband Bryan Abasolo was finalized, slamming his claims that she chose her career over their marriage.
“I’m divorced, thank you God,” Rachel, 39, said during the Friday, January 10, episode of her “Higher Learning” podcast.
After explaining that she was “trying to think about how” to express her feelings, Rachel said the situation was “weird.” She continued, “From the moment he finally left the house after being here for 7 months, post-separation, I felt divorced, but for me, I’ll be honest, it’s … there’s a lot I wanna say.”
“There’s so many things that I wanna address. But this is all I’m gonna say right now. There comes a point in a divorce where you don’t just have to be the bigger person,” she told her listeners. “When someone is fighting and fighting you in this way and willing to die on every hill and not willing to compromise at all, for whatever reason they have — and I’ll talk about that later — you have to, at one point, let go, and just be the bigger person and prioritize what is most important to you.”
Rachel continued, “Is it most important for it to be vengeful? Is it most important to be vindictive? Is it most important to be hateful? Is it most important to just be — to just like hang on? Or is it most important to just protect your peace of mind and let go? Which, to me, the latter is priceless.”
After noting she is “trying to move on,” the Texas native said she wants “to start rebuilding” and “move forward.” She added, “And that feels really, really good, that I can start the process of, like, okay, let’s rebuild. And there’s no price on that.”
Rachel went on to admit that it “bothered” her that Bryan, 44, would “play into certain stereotypes” when talking about their relationship. “Saying things that particularly play into the stereotype of me being an angry Black female,” she said.
“There are certain things that were said to play into the stereotype of me being a career woman that were intentionally done to try to win over the media. And it was really hard to see people run with that narrative,” she said, adding that the claims she “placed [her] career over a marriage” or “over wanting to have children” couldn’t be “more false.”
“Those things are emphatically so not true. And to see people run with that because it’s the low-hanging fruit and it fits a certain stereotype, [was] really hurtful, and I can’t wait to fully talk about those things,” she said.
Bryan and Rachel met on season 13 of The Bachelorette in 2017, and they went on to get married in 2019.
Despite appearing to be one of the franchise’s success stories, Bryan shocked fans when he filed for divorce on January 2, 2024. He then issued a statement about the matter hours later.
“After more than 4 years of marriage, Rachel and I have made the difficult decision to part ways and start anew. My parents have been married forever and I’m a family man but sometimes loving yourself and your partner means you must let go,” he said at the time. “I wanted you to hear it from the source before the blogs start making up their own reality,” he wrote on Instagram. “Please respect the spaces of our family and friends as we figure out our next steps. Respectfully, Bryan.”
One year after the divorce filing, their divorce was finalized on Tuesday, January 7.
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