For Rachel Lindsay, her long romantic nightmare is finally over.
Earlier this week, more than a year after filing for divorce from Bryan Abasolo, the former Bachelorette lead finally completed the legal process.
Yes, friends. Rachel Lindsay is finally single. Officially.
“I'm divorced. Thank you, God,” Lindsay said on the Jan. 10 episode of her higher education podcast. “Give me some freedom music. A little freedom music.
After joking around a bit, reality got serious… explaining to co-host Van Lathan how it's “a very strange feeling” to actually be free from your marriage.
“From the moment he finally left the house, after being here for seven months after the separation, I felt divorced,” she said on air. “I'll be honest, there's a lot I want to say.”
Will she ever overthrow all the apparently ugly and unhappy tea?
I will and I’m just figuring it all out,” Lindsay continued. “There (are) so many things I want to talk about.”
The exes do not share any children.
They met on Lindsay's season of The Bachelorette in 2017, eventually got engaged during the finale, and then married in August 2019.
The couple stayed mostly out of the spotlight in the years that followed, only making headlines when the divorce was announced, after Lindsay alluded to marital problems during an appearance in The Viall Files.
She said at the time that she and Abasolo lived “totally separate lives” because Abasolo typically works 12-hour days “alone” while she has “much more free time” in her job.
Without going into detail on this latest podcast, Lindsay revealed what “bothered” her most about the way Abasolo was acting following their split.
“On his part, it was said that certain things played into certain stereotypes that were really hurtful or bothered me. … Saying things that particularly play into the stereotype that I'm an angry black woman,” she said, claiming that “a narrative” unfolded in which she “placed a career” on the relationship and family.
“These things are categorically false,” Lindsay stressed. “To see people run with it because it’s the lowest hanging fruit and it fits a certain stereotype, it was really hurtful.”
The former couple's divorce was finalized on January 7.
According to Us Weekly and other celebrity gossip outlets, Lindsay was ordered to pay Abasolo $13,257 per month in temporary spousal support last July, as well as $20,000 in attorney's fees and forensic expertise costs.
Their divorce documents state that Abasolo “waives, releases and releases” Lindsay from “all” future payments, even though she still owes him $460,229.
“My peace of mind is priceless at the end of the day, and I really want to start rebuilding, and I want to move forward,” she said on the podcast about getting out of this mess.
“I’m able to do it now. And it feels really, really good.
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