The Taylor Frankie Paul controversy is ‘tainted’ The bachelor The reputation of the franchise and its irredeemable, former ‘The Bachelorette’ star, Rachel Lindsay, believes.
During a recent chat on the Bachelor Party podcast, Lindsay expressed her thoughts: “I think it’s over,” following the ABC announcement that the upcoming season was axed due to the ongoing controversy.
“I was trying to think of a scenario where it could be different, because this isn’t just, ‘Oh, we put it all on one person. This person did this.’ This is the system that made this possible,” the TV personality said.
She further noted, “The name Bachelorette, Bachelor is tainted at this point.”
And Lindsay thinks there’s no going back: “How do you move past that? You can’t,” she claimed.
This came after the ABC announced that it had dropped the upcoming season of the show on the same day TMZ published a past video of Paul throwing a chair at her ex, Dakota Mortensen, while a child was nearby.
The romance between Paul and Mortensen was previously featured on the reality TV series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
Lindsay added that she had previously been aware that Paul had been accused of domestic violence in the past, but she did not know the severity.
Lindsay explained, “I didn’t do more research, and this is what I’m going to blame myself for. I couldn’t have explained it to you the way I can explain things now. I knew there was a problem.
‘I thought they were both guilty. I knew there was a child there. I thought it had been concluded that the child had not been hit, and I thought she was begging for something.”
