Kaitlyn Bristowe is getting candid about her previous romance with fellow “Bachelorette” alum Jason Tartick, and he or she’s not sugarcoating how issues ended behind the scenes.
The previous couple started relationship in 2019 and obtained engaged in Could 2021.
On the time, Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick had been publicly optimistic about their future collectively.
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Kaitlyn Bristowe Slams Ex Jason Tartick Over Cash
Throughout Thursday’s episode of her “Off the Vine” podcast, the 39-year-old actuality TV star revealed that she usually felt “very used” all through her four-year relationship with Tartick, who she met throughout a 2018 taping of the identical present.
“Though my home was paid off, I must go to him [Tartick] on the primary of each month being like, ‘Are you able to break up payments?’” Bristowe stated. “That makes me really feel low-cost. We had each very related earnings. I felt like he was driving a wave.”
Bristowe didn’t cease there. She additionally implied that Tartick could have capitalized on their relationship to bolster his public persona and profession.
“And I’m not saying he didn’t love me as a result of I believe he did, additionally uncertain, but it surely felt like [he was] driving coattails, driving a wave, [to get to] the place he needed to get to,” she stated.
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Reflecting on the place she believes her ex stands immediately, Bristowe added, “I might actually encourage that particular person to get quiet with himself and really discover out who he’s.”
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Kaitlyn As soon as Deliberate A Household With Jason
“I do have my eggs frozen so the organic clock shouldn’t be precisely ticking, however I do actually need to take into consideration that,” she stated. “I’ve met my particular person, we’re getting married, and so I do really feel like that subsequent step, shortly after, goes to be having a household.”
However these plans didn’t materialize.
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Kaitlyn Bristowe And Jason Tartick’s Journey After The Breakup
In August 2023, the pair introduced their breakup in a joint assertion on social media.
“Persevering with our friendship is extremely vital to each of us,” they stated. “We really feel grateful to be ending our engagement with love and respect for one another. It’s heartbreaking and unhappy to say goodbye, however our care and admiration for each other won’t ever die.”
For the reason that break up, Tartick had a quick six-month relationship with TikTok star Kat Stickler, ending in October 2024. In the meantime, Bristowe has been linked to Zac Clark, one other acquainted face from Bachelor Nation.
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Kaitlyn Bristowe Confronted Backlash Following Cut up
The previous “Bachelorette” lead has confronted a wave of on-line backlash since asserting the tip of her four-year relationship with Tartick in 2023. However in keeping with Bristowe, it wasn’t simply strangers on the web who left her feeling unprotected.
“I knew it was going to be dangerous, however I didn’t comprehend it was going to be THAT dangerous of what individuals had been saying to me,” Bristowe stated in 2023. “It was already my fault after we weren’t posting sufficient, and folks had been questioning every thing. It was at all times like, ‘God, you’re ruining one other good factor! That is what you do!’”
Although Bristowe stated she’s prepared to “maintain [herself] accountable for sure issues within the relationship,” she emphasised that followers actually don’t know what went on behind the scenes. “The followers don’t know something,” she acknowledged.
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Kaitlyn Says Jason Didn’t Shield Her After Their Cut up
When requested instantly if she had hoped Tartick would publicly defend her, Bristowe didn’t hesitate.
“Yeah, somewhat bit,” she admitted. “We talked about defending one another by it as a result of, after all, whenever you undergo breakups, you need to have your and somebody to have their sides. You need to justify it and say every thing, however we agreed on defending one another.”
That promise, nevertheless, was put to the take a look at after Tartick posted a video on social media that, in keeping with Bristowe, triggered a brand new wave of hate. “The messages that I obtained after that had been simply [awful],” she stated. “And he was like, ‘Effectively, I didn’t get one message about it.’ And I used to be like, ‘I did!’”
Whereas Jason Tartick has spoken out about his break up from Kaitlyn, he has not but commented on her latest monetary allegations.
