“Graduates in Paradise” Alum Tia Booth clapped back on social media trolls, calling her out for being quiet after her former Colton Underwood was gay.
“@Coltonunderwood knows how I feel. Pyaar whom you want to love, ”Booth, 29, wrote on his Instagram Story Thursday that he had screenshots of messages from fans of Bachelor Nation and urged him to talk.
“I have a statement. I’m my own PR team gtg bye, “the physical therapist joked in his post, which was set to the song” Live Your Life “by TI and Rihanna.
Underwood, 29, opened up about his sexual orientation for the first time During a candid “Good Morning America” interview With Robin Roberts aired on Wednesday.
“I have been running away from myself for a long time. I hated myself for a long time. “And I’m gay. And I came in earlier this year and am processing it. And the next step in all this was to let people know. “
The former football player joined Bachelor Nation in 2018 when he competed on the season of Becca Kufrin’s “The Bachelorette”. Before going on the show, they exchanged DMs with Booth, but their friendship didn’t take a romantic turn until they competed on Season 5 of “Bachelor in Paradise” later that year. Their relationship ended due to being short-lived.
“We were better as friends, and we remain friends,” Underwood wrote in his 2020 memoir, “The First Time,” in which he called Booth one of his “most trusted confidants.”
Following his stint on the Mexico-set spinoff, ABC named the athlete a season 23 “Bachelor”, giving him the franchise’s first-biggest lead. He eventually Chose cassie randolph as their winner But it was not proposed during the end of March 2019.
Underwood and speech pathologist, 25, continued dating off-screen for more than a year before announcing their split in May 2020. She obtained a restraining order against him in September, claiming that he had harassed her and tracked her car. Randolph dropped the order in November as Underwood revealed they had reached “a private agreement”.
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