Rachel Lindsay engagement to estranged husband Bryan Abasolo wasn't as rosy as it first appeared. Eight months after the chiropractor filed for divorce from the former Bachelorette , Rachel is getting candid about the start of the couple's relationship—especially when it came to her feelings after his 2017 year proposal during the ABC show's season 13 finale. "I felt weird," she explained on the Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone podcast's Aug.
6 episode. "I can't say exciting was the word. I was scared.
" Rachel—who got her start as a contestant on The Bachelor before becoming the one handing out the roses—explained that suddenly it all got a bit too real for her. "I just kept looking at the ring, and he was excited, and I just was like, I think I was very quiet on the way home," she continued. "I just—I was weirded out.
" And the 39-year-old was particularly nervous to tell her parents about the engagement, as she'd assured them she wasn't planning on falling for any of the men on either iteration of the show. But things slowly started to shift after she met Bryan. "After that first night, I was like, there's potential here," she explained, "but I still was like, 'There's no way I'm gonna marry this person.
' And even when you get engaged at the end—it's the scariest day when the cameras shut down." She added, "You have this ring on your finger, and there's this man, and for the first time you ride in the car together, you're going to the same hotel room together. It'.