Kaitlyn Bristowe Felt ‘Used Professionally’ by Shawn Booth: He Was ‘Hanging On Until His Gym Opened’

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A candid conversation about money has led to a confession from Kaitlyn Bristowe. During a recent appearance on longtime love Jason Tartick’s podcast, “Trading Secrets,” the former Bachelorette admitted that she believes her ex-fiancé, Shawn Booth, “used” her for professional gain.After joking that Tartick, whom she got engaged to in 2021, was “trying to get headlines,” Bristowe, 37, got real about the power dynamic between a lead in the ABC franchise and their “winner.”“This is all just from my point of view and from how I felt and things that I saw.

It doesn’t mean they’re right or wrong, but would you or would you not agree that when couples come off the show — whether it was a Bachelor and the woman who picked or Bachelorette and the guy she picked that — that is a really hard foundation to start on and a power struggle?” the Dancing With the Stars champ asked.Tartick, 34, agreed, adding that “personally, professionally [and] financially” it is “close to impossible” for a couple to last on the foundation set by The Bachelor.“So I think men sometimes get emasculated by the Bachelorette coming off [the show with] all these opportunities.

They’re like, ‘We want Kaitlyn there and well, Shawn can come too,’ or ‘Maybe not. Maybe it’s just Kaitlyn or it’s the two of us together.’ It was always if I was there, then he was invited,” Bristowe explained. “And I think that on top of already feeling emasculated on the show where you’re not the [only] one and there’s other relationships building and you thought it was you the whole time and then you realize it wasn’t — how does the relationship even work after that?