Patching issues up? Chris Harrison and Kaitlyn Bristowe sat down to interrupt down their falling out — in entrance of podcast mics.
The 51-year-old former Bachelor host related with the season 11 Bachelorette, 37, after Bristowe opened up about their strained relationship on the “Not Skinny However Not Fats” podcast late final month.
“What I took from this after I learn the articles, listened to the podcast that she did, it wasn’t a cry for assist, however I took it as a cry for one thing that she misplaced,” Harrison started on the Monday, February 6, episode of his “Most Dramatic Podcast Ever.”
He continued: “One thing that she was unhappy that she misplaced and that was our friendship. And so as an alternative of getting mad, and even upset, which I’m not, I used to be saddened {that a} pal of mine was mourning the lack of our friendship and that that friendship had modified. And sure, to a sure diploma, it did change.”
Earlier than the “Off the Vine” podcast host joined, Harrison famous that he and Bristowe had “texted a number of instances during the last week” however had been going to speak for the primary time on the present. He recalled the Dancing With the Stars champ being on Leisure Tonight amid the backlash of Harrison’s controversial protection of then-Bachelor contestant Rachael Kirkconnell (which led to ABC slicing ties with Harrison).
“I referred to as you that morning and we talked a bit bit, and also you made the statements that you just had been going to make, and we talked about that and I supported you and mentioned look, ‘I completely perceive. Do what you bought to do. That this doesn’t have an effect on us.’ After which subsequently, you and Tayshia [Adams] had been named [as mentors for season 17 of The Bachelorette],” Harrison mentioned. “We hadn’t talked after that. … So that you texted me after you bought the mentorship.”
Whereas Bristowe mentioned on the “Not Skinny However Not Fats” podcast that she texted Harrison “10 instances” with no response in March 2021, he claimed on Monday that “seven of [the messages] had been simply that day.”
“And I’m not going to learn them to you, but it surely was a type of issues the place she missed a phrase and she or he’s like ‘Wait, I meant this, meant this.’ So it wasn’t such as you had been hammering me with textual content messages, [saying] ‘Name me, name me, name me.’ It was actually this one pressure of ideas that got here out on someday,” Harrison continued. “Per week later [or] so that you mentioned, ‘Hey if you happen to get an opportunity name me.’ And so there wasn’t ghosting. … And it had nothing — and I imply, nothing — to do with you and Tayshia internet hosting the present. It needed to do with the truth that I used to be going by means of one thing extraordinary. … And I don’t imply this in a condescending manner, it had nothing to do with you or Tayshia.”
Harrison added that “at the moment” he “wanted folks” in his life that had been “unconditionally loving and caring” and reaching out solely to verify in on him, his youngsters and his fiancée, Lauren Zima.
“Notion is rarely the precise actuality. And so to me, I used to be like, ‘I really feel like I did attain out to you and I did really feel like I did attain out to Lauren,’’ Bristowe replied. “And I really feel like I cared a lot, however I used to be additionally in such a bizarre place. After which I perceive that you just had been additionally in a bizarre place. So after I didn’t get a textual content message again, I used to be like, ‘OK, it’s simply that is what it needs to be. The connection clearly has to vary.’ So then I really feel like I needed to proceed to achieve out and verify in and speak, however then I felt like, ‘Effectively, he’s not prepared to speak to me.’”
Bristowe mentioned that in hindsight, she “completely get[s]” why Harrison wasn’t making it a precedence to get again to her. In return, he famous that the dynamic between him and former leads could have performed an element too.
“I used to be the mentor — considerably of a father determine — the place I listened. And I requested questions, and I used to be all about you and your life, as a result of that was my job and I care,” he mentioned. “And I took a number of pleasure in that and that’s how our relationship began. This time, I wanted that flip of simply the, ‘Hey, how are you? Are you OK?’ Not, ‘Are you OK with me taking the present and also you’re irreplaceable.’ And I appreciated these phrases, but it surely was simply at the moment, I didn’t have the bandwidth to cope with all of that. … By the way in which, I actually, really simply wasn’t frightened in any respect about who was internet hosting and who was the following mentor or what the present was going to do.”
Bristowe and Adams — billed as particular company — hosted seasons 17 and 18 of The Bachelorette earlier than ABC named Jesse Palmer the everlasting substitute for Harrison, taking the lead of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise.
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