“I just wanted him to know I thought he was irreplaceable,” says the former Bachelorette.
The situation wasn’t exactly rosy whenKaitlyn Bristowefilled in as a co-host forThe Bachelorette.
Harrison’sremarks defending Kirkconnellultimatelyled to his exitfrom the franchise.
Chris Harrison, Kaitlyn Bristowe.Rick Rowell/Disney General Entertainment/Getty
I wouldn’t be replacing Chris.
So then, all these articles started coming out saying Kaitlyn Bristowe and Tayshia Adams replacing Chris Harrison.
So I messaged Chris, probably 10 times without him responding."
What I said was ‘You’re irreplaceable.
I don’t know what my role is.
And then he didn’t write back."
“I was like okay, he hates me.
We were best friends and now he hates me,” she added.
Bristowe finally spoke to Harrison again several months later when they bothattended the weddingofBachelorfixture Wells Adams andModern Family’sSarah Hyland.
She approached the former host to tell him that she missed him.
You haven’t responded to me in forever!'"
She added, “I bawled my eyes out about it.
That friendship just felt like it went down the toilet.”
Bristowe also had her own heartbreak over theBachelorhosting gig.
“I loved it,” she said.
“I felt like that’s where I was supposed to be in life.
I thought I was going to do it for a long time.”
Representatives for Harrison did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
Though he did recentlyaddress his exitfor the first time on his new podcastThe Most Dramatic Podcast…
