‘The Bachelorette’ star Ryan Sutter addresses speculation that wife Trista ‘died’

nypost.com:

cryptic messages about wife Trista Sutter.The 49-year-old alum of “The Bachelorette” has been posting about his absent partner since May 12, leading his followers to speculate that something is wrong with Trista, 51.On Wednesday, Ryan shared a black-and-white picture of his dog and addressed the online attention toward his perplexing posts.“21 years ago I was pretty famous.

I don’t have millions of followers and am not influencing anyone but for some reason, every now and then, people still pay attention,” he wrote. “Apparently that has recently been the case?”Ryan continued: “I strayed from the safety of the usual dog theme and chose to post a message to my wife for a time when she could eventually read it.

She understood the context and so did I. No one else did however, and that’s where things went sideways.”“It was suggested that Trista had died, we were in trouble or that it must be a midlife crisis among many other creative ideas,” the ex-reality star added, referring to the online speculation about his wife and their marriage.

He went on to say, “Some thought I was intentionally misleading people in order to somehow benefit from it? It got picked up on entertainment news sites and I started getting texts from friends asking if I was ok.