Bachelorette’s Gabby Windey Says Ex-Fiance Erich Schwer ‘Doesn’t Know’ She Has a Girlfriend

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Gabby Windey kept her new romance from her fans — and her ex-fiancé, Erich Schwer — before publicly announcing she’s dating a woman.“Knowing how people cared, I just want to be honest.

I don’t want to live and not be living my full truth,” Windey, 32, said on the Wednesday, August 2, episode of The View. “I don’t want to do it to myself or my girlfriend or other people who really care about me and feel like they know me.”When asked how Schwer, 30, took the news, Windey confessed, “He doesn’t know.” The View cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin quipped: “He knows now!”Windey further explained that she chose to share her sexuality update — and reveal her partner as comedian and writer Robby Hoffman — on the morning talk show because her “story has been told for [her] so many times being on TV with editing and production.” This time around, she wanted to do it on her terms.“Obviously, I was on dating shows dating men and a Broncos cheerleader, so it was like my whole world was male-gaze. [So] it took me a while to stop questioning and just start trusting and I’m fully trusted and I’m here,” Windey told the audience. “I think that’s really the big takeaway is, like, maybe it’s not so much — like obviously it’s about sexuality, but it’s also the person I met.

She is so special. She makes me feel so safe, so loved.”The former Bachelorette noted that her new relationship is “a love that I always wanted going on these dating shows.”Fans first met Windey on Clayton Echard’s season of The Bachelor.

She was then the co-lead for season 19 of The Bachelorette alongside Rachel Recchia.Schwer proposed during the season finale, which aired in September 2022. “You literally make me feel like I’m the only person in the world.