Nayte Olukoya is speaking out after his split! The former winner of The Bachelorette — who stole Michelle Young‘s heart on her season helming the leading role — took to Instagram over the weekend to deliver his side of the story.
Of course, as we’ve previously reported, the 27-year-old hunk and the 29-year-old schoolteacher suddenly called it quits on their engagement earlier this month.
But despite controversies dogging the ex-couple for a while now, infidelity was apparently NOT an issue here! Related: Is ‘The Bachelor’ Over At This Point?? So says Nayte, at least, in a since-expired IG Stories Q&A session from Saturday.
In his message to fans on the app, the Canadian tried to preemptively walk back any controversies, first writing: Struggling with the public-facing nature of the split, Olukoya admitted that the “negativity” and “blatant hate” both he and Young have received has been “hurtful.” He did give the Minnesota resident a nice shoutout in his message, adding: Still, things obviously didn’t work out between Olukoya and Young.
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