Rachel Lindsay was feeling a mixture of emotions after now-estranged husband Bryan Abasolo proposed to her on The Bachelorette . “I felt weird. I can’t say exciting was the word.
I was scared,” Lindsay, 39, admitted on the Tuesday, April 6, episode of the “Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone” podcast. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, now I have to tell my parents that I got engaged,’ because when I left to go do The Bachelor[ette] , I was like, ‘Don’t worry, I’m not going to fall for any of these men,’ and I did, so I was so terrified to tell them.” Lindsay recalled looking at her engagement ring after Abasolo, 44, popped the question while her fiancé was “excited.
” She added, “I was very quiet on the way home. I was weirded out.” Ahead of her stint as the season 13 Bachelorette in 2017, Lindsay “did not think [she] was getting married.
” “After that first night, I was like, there’s potential here, 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 said. “But 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’s like, this is the beginning of your new life.” Behind closed doors, Lindsay said she and Abasolo realized they “actually really have a lot in common.” She recalled thinking, “We’re reall.