Kaitlyn Bristowe Feared Fans Would Blame Her for Jason Tartick Split: ‘They Think It’s Just All Me’

usmagazine.com:

Jason Tartick wasn’t the only one who took to the mic following his and Kaitlyn Bristowe’s split.

The former Bachelorette shed light on how she was handling the broken engagement — and navigating her followers’ reactions — on the Tuesday, August 8, episode of her “Off the Vine” podcast.“I’m going through a breakup with someone I was engaged to.

Now, we both are public figures, we both came from the same show, we have all these followers who we’ve let in. And we’ve invited them into our lives and our relationship and our home.

And what we’re doing morning, afternoon, night — it’s become part of, like, business,” Bristowe, 38, explained to marriage and family therapist Jenny Wise Black.Adding that she loves “using my phone to entertain,” Bristowe admitted she has struggled with the pressure to give Bachelor Nation answers after she and Tartick called it quits.“I’ve gotten to this point where something like going through a breakup — it’s a loss, it’s grief, you’re going through, like, the thought of losing somebody, all of these big emotions — and now these people are on the other end of this phone expecting you to share it with them while you’re going through it,” she continued. “Then they think, ‘You’re hiding something from us, why wouldn’t you be honest?