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Former Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay admitted that she and her now-estranged husband Bryan Abasolo were living "totally different lives" just weeks before he filed for divorce.
News broke on Tuesday (January 2) that Abasolo filed for divorce from Lindsay, the first Black Bachelorette, after four years of marriage.
Ahead of the news, Lindsay sat down with fellow Bachelor alum Nick Viall for the December 21 episode of his podcast, "The Viall Files." Lindsay. a podcaster, TV host, and author, said she and Abasolo, a chiropractor, were living "totally different lives."
“Bryan is a sole practitioner [and] he leaves the house at 8. He comes home at 9 o’clock, 9:30 [at night] sometimes. It’s just him by himself," Lindsay further explained.“Me, especially now that I’m not doing Extra, I have a lot more free time… and then I’m back in hustle mode trying to get a second job, so I go to events. So, we’re just in two totally different places.”
“There’s not a lot of time to take pictures of each other and show what we’re doing because we’re in the bed or that kind of thing,” she added.
Lindsay went on to suggest that she and Abasolo don't work well together in career settings.
“We don’t and we learned that! You gotta protect the marriage and we just don’t work well together. Not every couple can do that,” the former Bachelorette said.
Lindsay also addressed fan questions as to why she and Abasolo don't post much about their relationship on social media.
“We don’t put ourselves out there at all [except] maybe an anniversary or a holiday [post here and there], but I think I did that because people were so critical of us when we came off the show,” she said. “I just [was like], ‘I want to keep this for ourselves’ and, you know, marriage has ups and downs, but you never know when we’re good or when we’re not because we never put it out there. I kind of want to keep it that way, so when I want to share something, I do.”
At one point during the podcast, Rachel also said she and Abasolo were “working on having a kid,” but noted that it's "been a little bit of a struggle, too.”
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