Bachelor Nation is still trying to process the dramatic finale of Season 21 of The Bachelorette, where they saw contestant Devin Strader break off his engagement with Jenn Tran in a dramatic turn of events.
During the After the Final Rose segment, Jenn—the first-ever Asian lead—tearfully recounted how her chosen man had broken up with her two months after they left Hawaii engaged.
“He basically said he didn’t love me anymore and didn’t feel the same way,” the 26-year-old recalled to host Jesse Palmer on the September 3 episode, adding that Devin, in a 15-minute phone call, said he “regretted” the engagement. “He was checked out. It wasn’t what he wanted anymore.”
But Devin was quick to share his side of the story.
“When we left the show, I had a lot of doubts,” the 28-year-old explained, insisting that he had always been transparent about his reservations. “I did come clean to you about that.”
“You hid all of this from me,” Jenn, the aspiring physician assistant, shot back. “For two months, I was pouring everything into you while you hid all of these feelings of doubt and made me feel even more in love with you and try to fight for a relationship that was out the door half the time.”
As he listened to Jenn’s account of their relationship unraveling, the freight company entrepreneur admitted, “I hid all these feelings of doubt” and “was regretfully late on letting you know.”
