'It's a storyline that shouldn't happen.'
to discuss her experience on the show with host Andy Cohen and guest Senator Cory Booker.
When asked by Cohen if she experienced racism from the producers or cast of her season, Lindsay said, “From the audience.” She continued, “I definitely experienced it. More so when it came to picking the men, and then at the end, my husband is Colombian, so I got a lot of racism towards the fact that we were in an interracial relationship. Just a lot of nasty messages, trolling.”
“I did have a racist contestant on my season,” Lindsay continued without mentioning a specific name. “Which is one of the things that I’m fighting for, for Matt James as the first Black Bachelor, for them to do a better job at vetting contestants. You need a person of color in the decision room making decisions so that doesn’t happen to them.”
Booker then brought up the very viable theory that a storyline between a racist contestant and a Black lead could be milked by producers as a juicy storyline. But Lindsay said, at least for her season, she was told it was purely a vetting issue. “I don’t really know. They said they didn’t do a good job of vetting out to determine that he was racist or had done racist things in the past,” she said. “But I would hope in the future that never happens again. It’s a storyline that shouldn’t happen.”in early June, Rachel Lindsay took to Twitter to warn the franchise against moving backward. “Congrats to Matt James. I am happy to see that a black man was cast after 18 years and 40 seasons.
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