Hell has despised a bachelorette.
Jenn Tran came face to face with her ex-fiancé Devin Strader during the “After the Final Rose” special on the season 21 finale of The Bachelorette on Tuesday night, just one month after he broke off their engagement in a 15-minute phone call.
Tran, 26, lashed out at Strader, 28, accusing him of following “The Bachelor” alum Maria Georgas on Instagram the day after their split.
“What I can’t understand is everything you did after we broke off our engagement,” Tran said.
“I broke off the engagement over a phone call and the next day I wake up and I’m following girls on Instagram – not just any girls, but Maria (Georgas),” she continued. “Not only is this so disrespectful to everything we shared together, I just don’t understand it.”
“Why would you do something like that?” Tran Strader asked. “Because it invalidates our entire relationship, everything I felt for you, everything we felt for each other.”
Tran and Georgas, 30, were both on Joey Graziadei’s season of “The Bachelor,” which aired earlier this year. Georgas, who finished in fourth place, confirmed on “Call Her Daddy” that she turned down the role of the next “Bachelorette,” so the job went to Tran, who became the first Asian-American “Bachelorette.”
“Obviously I failed you,” Strader told Tran after she attacked him.
“And I can’t say anything else,” he added. “But everything I felt for you was real.”
Tran then directed even harsher words at her ex: “I hope that you learn that your words carry weight and that when you promise something, you should be able to keep that promise,” she said.
“What you did is something I simply couldn’t have done in that position,” the PA student continued. “And when I love something, I cherish it and don’t throw it away the next day.”
She also criticized Strader for going clubbing with fellow actor Jeremy Simon in New York City just hours after his split.
“Am I not allowed to have a life?” Stader said in his defense, before admitting that he “failed to respond to Tran’s needs” when she said he did not “fight” for their relationship.
“The woman standing there was willing to fight for love, was willing to give everything to someone, was willing to start a family, was willing to love and understand what it means to love someone with all your heart, to go through hard times, to experience happy times, to overcome every single obstacle in life with someone undeterred, no matter what,” Tran told him.
Tran made history by becoming the first Bachelorette lead to propose to the season’s winner rather than the last winner.
However, the engagement did not last long.
During the special “After the Final Rose,” Tran was in tears when producers forced her to watch the proposal and then talk to host Jesse Palmer and the audience about the breakup.
“He basically said that he didn’t love me anymore and didn’t feel the same way as me and that something was wrong from the moment he proposed to me. He regretted his engagement,” Tran revealed.
Afterwards, Strader was brought on stage and the ex-partners explained their differences live on television.
