A Timeline of Chris Harrison and Rachel Lindsay’s Interview and the Fallout

Words and actions personal penalties. That’s something Chris Harrison realized firsthand following his Extra interview with Rachel Lindsay.

Exact thru the chat, the feeble Bachelorette, 35, recapped the command with Harrison, 49, forward of asking the host what his thoughts were on Rachael Kirkconnell. The fresh Bachelor contestant — who made it to Matt James‘ final four on the Monday, February 15, episode — is below fire for “liking” racially charged Instagram posts and for attending an Feeble South occasion in 2018.

At the time of the Extra interview, Kirkconnell, 24, had no longer apologized for her previous actions — something Lindsay voiced her difficulty about to the producer.

“All of us want to personal a cramped grace, a cramped understanding, a cramped compassion. In consequence of I personal seen some stuff on-line — this desire, jury, executioner thing the keep folk are factual tearing this lady’s lifestyles apart and diving into, like, her oldsters, her oldsters’ voting sage,” Harrison acknowledged at the time. “I haven’t heard Rachael discuss on this but. Unless I genuinely hear this girl personal an opportunity to discuss, who am I to claim any of this?”

When Lindsay renowned that Kirkconnell had six weeks to discuss out, Harrison looked to proceed to defend her. “Who is Rachel Lindsay and who is Chris Harrison and who is whatever woke police individual out there, who’re you [to tell her to speak out]?” he requested. “I’ve heard this a lot of, ‘I instruct she must,’ ‘I instruct he must.’ Who the hell are you? Who’re you that you just demand that?”

The interview changed into as soon as adopted by an infinite amount of backlash by both fans of the franchise and Bachelor Nation participants alike. Lindsay, for her allotment, has spoken out a grand number of cases since the interview, revealing that she desires to step away from the franchise.

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“Chris likes to steal pronouncing, ‘We’ve had these conversations, so, I’m gonna lope forward and use that. In consequence of we’ve had these conversations.’ [I] wasn’t unnerved at what he acknowledged. I’m factual unnerved [that] he acknowledged it on digicam,” she acknowledged on her “Increased Learning” podcast three days after the Extra interview. “As a long way as me, I’m f—king tired. I’m exhausted. I personal genuinely had ample. … How worthy extra attain I want to be affiliated with this? How worthy extra can I win of issues like this? I acknowledged I changed into as soon as gonna leave if they didn’t personal leads of coloration. OK, they did that, and they made some other adjustments. They employed a diversity manual — who didn’t motivate the class? Did Chris Harrison no longer sit thru that? I’m at a loss for words as to how you’ve complete consultants working for you, but what came about factual came about … I will’t win it anymore. I’m contractually certain in a lot of programs. Nonetheless when it’s up, I’m too. I will’t attain it anymore.”

Scroll thru the gallery below for a chunky timeline — from the Extra interview and Kirkconnell’s apology to Harrison selecting to win a destroy from the franchise.