Furious ‘Bachelorette’ Jenn Tran slams ex-fiancé Devin Strader as they come face to face after he ghosted her: ‘So disrespectful’
Hell hath a bachelorette scorned.
Jenn Tran came face to face with her ex-fiancé, Devin Strader, during the “After the Final Rose” special on “The Bachelorette” Season 21 finale Tuesday night, just one month after he broke off their engagement in a 15-minute phone call.
Tran, 26, went off on Strader, 28, and called him out for following “The Bachelor” alum Maria Georgas on Instagram the day after their split.
“What I can’t understand is everything that you did after we’ve broken our engagement,” said Tran.
“Ending the engagement on a phone call, and the next day, I wake up to you following girls on Instagram — not just any girl, but Maria [Georgas],” she continued. “Not only is that so disrespectful to everything that we had shared together, I just don’t understand it.”
“Why you would do something like that?” Tran asked Strader. “Because it completely invalidated our entire relationship, everything that I had felt for you, everything that we’d felt for each other.”
Tran and Georgas, 30, were both on Joey Graziadei’s season of “The Bachelor” that aired earlier this year. Georgas, who came in fourth place, confirmed on “Call Her Daddy” that she turned down being the next “Bachelorette,” so the gig went to Tran, who became the first Asian-American “Bachelorette.”
“Obviously, I failed you,” Strader told Tran after she lashed out at him.
“And there’s nothing I can say other than that,” he added. “But, everything I felt for you was real.”
Tran then delivered more harsh words to her ex: “I hope that you learn that the weight of your words matter, and that if you’re going to promise something, you should be able to fulfill those promises,” she said.
“I simply couldn’t have done what you have done in that position,” the PA student went on. “And when I love something, I nurture it and I value it, and I don’t throw it away the next day.”
She also slammed Strader for going clubbing in New York City with castmate Jeremy Simon hours after he broke up with her.
“Am I not allowed to live a life?” Strader said in defense, before admitting that he “fell short” of Tran’s needs when she said he didn’t “fight” for their relationship.
“The woman that stood there was ready to fight for love, was ready to give everything into a person, was ready to start a family, was ready to love and understood what it meant to fully love somebody, to go through the hard times, to go through the happy times, to go through every single obstacle in life with somebody unwaveringly no matter what,” Tran told him.
Tran made history by becoming the first “Bachelorette” lead star to propose to her season’s winner as opposed to her final pick asking for her hand in marriage.
However, the engagement didn’t last long.
During the “After the Final Rose” special, Tran was in tears as producers forced her to watch the proposal and then talk about the breakup to host Jesse Palmer and the audience.
“He’d basically said that he didn’t love me anymore and didn’t feel the same way and felt like something had been off since the second that he proposed. He regretted getting engaged,” Tran revealed.
Strader was then brought out onstage and the exes hashed out their differences on live TV.
