Courtney Robertson Reached Out to Brayden Bowers, Breaks Down the Evolution of the ‘Bachelor’ Villain

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Courtney Robertson knows a thing or two about being labeled a Bachelor “villain” — but she actually uses her powers for good.The Bachelor season 16 “winner” joined Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast to recap week 5 of Charity Lawson’s Bachelorette journey, revealing that she reached out to eliminated contestant Brayden Bowers after his weeks-long stint as the villain.“People were comparing Brayden to [Chad Johnson from JoJo Fletcher’s season] and I just don’t see that.

I think Chad — obviously stuff happened after his season — but I think that he was naive to the show and the process too,” Courtney told Us. “[As for] how villains have evolved — I think it’s kind of like the show writes itself.

The guys clearly had a huge problem with Brayden and you can’t change that narrative once it starts.”Courtney — who was famous for being a “villain” who also received the final rose when she accepted a proposal from Ben Flajnik in 2012 — recalled her costars targeting her at the time.“With me, from night one, as soon as I said I’m a model, it was like daggers,” she said. “They didn’t like me — and I’m not blaming just that because I did say a lot of sassy things — but with Brayden, they clearly all had an issue with him and I didn’t really think he was doing anything that bad, personally, having been through it.”Brayden was under fire for openly expressing doubts about the process of The Bachelorette, something he admitted to Charity.

From Courtney’s perspective, the season 27 lead “felt a little rejected” by Brayden.“[His initial exit] seemed totally reasonable to me.