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Rachel Lindsay Details Parting Ways From Bachelor Franchise in Powerful Op-Ed
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  • She was upfront with producers about the lack of diversity on The Bachelor early on. In her op-ed, Rachel recounted her auditioning process for the show. She noted that as she walked into a room, there was a "sea of people," but "nobody was Black." As she talked with executive producers, she expressed that she didn't watch the show because she didn't feel represented on screen. "What I was saying didn't scare them," she added. "'You should tell your job about the show,' they said. They were telling me I was going to be cast."
  • She almost backed out of the show. As Rachel familiarized herself with the show, she decided to watch Ben Higgins's season, and it almost made her back out. "Watching it, I started crying," she said. "I thought, I don't like the dates. This is cheesy. My friends are going to laugh at me. I'm not going to have any respect in the legal field. I almost pulled out." Days before going on the show, she revealed that she called up her ex, hoping he would convince her not to do it. Instead, the opposite happened. "He said, 'Well, don't say my name.' I thought, Oh my gosh, this man wants nothing to do with me. And I'm still looking for anything from him. Maybe 24 hours later, he texted me, 'You don't honor the sanctity of marriage. You're not who I thought you were.' He was trying to shame me into not doing it. It was just what I needed to hear to motivate me going in."
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