Rachel Lindsay, 35, is talking about the hateful racism she encountered as the first Black Bachelorette. “[I got it] from the audience…a lot of nasty messages trolling,” Rachel admitted to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. “I definitely experienced it when it came to picking the men.
My husband [Bryan Abasolo] is Colombian so I got a lot of racism towards the fact that we were in an interracial relationship,” she added.
The lawyer made headlines back in 2017 for being the first Bachelor or Bachelorette of color, and remains the franchise’s only Black lead to this day.
While season 21 was definitely a success for Rachel when it came to finding love, it was unfortunately discovered that one of the contestants, Lee Garrett, had made
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