Bachelorette’s Devin Strader Defends His Decision to Dump Jen Tran

This news about the breakup is becoming more and more worrying.

this year Single The finale really delivered on the promise of being “the most dramatic season yet” when it was revealed that the lead actress Gene Tran And her chosen man Devin Strader They broke up two months after their engagement in Hawaii. (According to Jen, Devin called it off in a 15-minute phone call.)

During the emotional live finale, the exes disagreed over how they thought it all happened.

“I watched this beautiful girl grow and blossom into this amazing woman all on her own,” Devin explained. “It didn’t take any of us on the show to make you this person. It was amazing to watch you blossom into who you are now.”

But after returning to the real world, without cameras, he added: “I found myself falling short of those expectations in the real world. I found myself unable to live up to the things you need and deserve. I saw myself contributing to your decline and that hurt me. You don’t deserve to compromise your standards to be happy.”