Rachel Lindsay Listens to Chris Harrison’s 1st Podcast Episodes: ‘It Wasn’t for Me’

18.01.2023 - 22:01 / usmagazine.com

After tuning into Chris Harrison’s new venture, Rachel Lindsay has determined that “The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever” isn’t a show meant for her — and she’s OK with that.

“A lot of people, as you would imagine, have hit me up — either asked me what I think, asked me if I’d listen. Or sadly — and a lot of it — it has brought up all the attacks that I got from before when this happened almost two years ago,” the former Bachelorette, 37, began on a recent episode of her “Higher Learning” podcast. “A lot of the social media attacks and the DMs have started again because it’s bringing up something that happened almost two years ago. So I’m not going to speak too much to it. … Some people [have sent] support, you know, or like, ‘I don’t like the way that he addressed it … your name wasn’t mentioned.’ Which, when we talked about when this podcast was announced, I said, ‘He’s going to talk about how he feels, he’s not going to mention my name.’ Why would he? This is his opportunity to tell his side of it because he hasn’t before, which he totally has the right to do.”

Lindsay noted that Harrison, 51, kicks off his debut episode, which dropped on January 9, “talking about who this podcast is for,” who she describes as “[the] people who have supported him.”

“It’s for his fans, it’s for those who have reached out, those have wondered where he is,” she continued. “That’s all I needed to know. So for all the people who are like, ‘I can’t believe this wasn’t addressed. I can’t believe this wasn’t said.’ He told y’all who this podcast is for. It’s not for y’all. It’s for his supporters. That’s who he was talking to. … It set the tone for the whole thing. So I don’t know why people thought that they were going to get something, either some