Kaitlyn Bristowe mirrored on the aftermath of her breakup from ex-fiancé Jason Tartick, whom she feels “didn’t protect” her from fan backlash.
“We talked about protecting each other through it because, of course, when you go through breakups, you want to have your side and someone to have their side,” the previous Bachelor star, 38, defined throughout her “Off the Vine” podcast Tuesday, September 19. “To justify it and say all these things. We really agreed on protecting each other.”
After emphasizing the safety that she and Jason, 34, agreed upon, Kaitlyn recalled the Instagram video he posted in August. The clip in query featured the Bachelorette alum packing up his belongings whereas his and Kaitlyn’s canine watched.
“This has been another reminder to me that it’s OK to show weakness, it’s OK to ask for help and that the support from family/friends is truly unbreakable when they know you really need to lean in,” Jason wrote in his caption, referring to a good friend who took a flight to assist him transfer out. “[I] promise sad posts will be behind me shortly, it just felt too meaningful not to share. Thank you for everyone who has given respect and grace over the last month.”
Though Jason was solely thanking his good friend for serving to out, Kaitlyn took the video as a slight dig, noting that it made her “really sad.”
“When he was, kind of, leaning into that sad — I was like, ‘Bro.’ It didn’t protect me because it made me look like I was taking the dogs away from him,” she defined throughout her latest podcast episode. “The messages I got after that were just … and he was like, ‘Well I didn’t get one message about it.’ … I didn’t know it was going to be that bad of what people were saying to me.”
Earlier in the summertime, Kaitlyn acquired numerous feedback and messages from Bachelor Nation followers demanding to reply whether or not or not she was nonetheless engaged to Jason. After the couple confirmed they broke up in August, social media customers observed that Jason appeared to take the cut up fairly laborious.
“What I’ve just realized is that there’s no timeline on handling grief,” he stated throughout an episode of his “Trading Secrets” podcast. “And there’s times where you have these just tidal waves of depression, but then there are these times where like you feel lifted and you feel good again.”
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