Michelle Young Hints Nayte Olukoya Split Was a Blindside, Addresses $200K Down Payment Gift

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Answering those burning questions — kind of. Michelle Young is still working through her split from Nayte Olukoya, giving her first interview less than one month after calling off her engagement.When asked by Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti how she’s coping, the 29-year-old Minnesota native said on the “Almost Famous” podcast that she has “good days” and “bad days” as she navigates the breakup, which happened the same month she announced she wouldn’t return to teaching in September.“It’s been quite a transition, I would say just because this year, I decided to step away from the classroom this following school year just because I’ve been so burned out and just really wanting to, you know, get out of that survival mode,” Young said on Tuesday, July 5. “I kind of feel like life has taken this thing as like, ‘OK, challenge accepted … [now] deal with a breakup.’ It’s definitely not something that I planned to have to work through this summer.

But I definitely have the understanding that, like, sometimes we have to work through things that we did not plan for or that were not in our life plans.”The reality star added that she’s “leaning on my friends [and] family for support” at this time.Young and Olukoya, who got engaged during the December 2021 finale of The Bachelorette, originally planned to move to her native Minnesota.

However, they ended things before he took the leap.“Nayte and I are very independent people. But at that same time, I really — I, personally — want to work toward different things, right?

We’re in two different places. He’s in Austin, I’m in Minnesota, and long-distance is difficult,” she said after Iaconetti asked whether her decision to stop teaching was because she wanted to spend more time with her