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Why Michelle Young Doesn’t Have a Take on Matt and Rachael’s Split


Former Bachelorette Michelle Young weighed in on ex Matt James’ split from Rachael Kirkconnell

At the After the Final Rose episode, James shared that he and Kirkconnell split after her past racially insensitive social media posts resurfaced. Michelle Young and Matt James on ‘The Bachelor’ABC/YouTubeShe continued, “But also it’s like, I spend a lot of time focusing on these two people at the end of that season, sitting next to Emmanuel Acho and had to have the whole conversation be about race, and so it’s like I really just am in nobody’s corner and am that peace with it and really don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it.” (Acho, 34, was named as the fill-in host amid controversy surrounding host Chris Harrison, who left the show in 2021. Less than two weeks after her split from Matt James rocked Bachelor Nation, Rachael Kirkconnell is ready to tell her side of the story, revealing that the breakup came “out of nowhere” during a fight.

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