Michelle Young & Nayte Olukoya Reveal Wedding Plans
Bachelor Nation is learning much astir Nayte Olukoya and Michelle Young's breakup.
About 3 months after the erstwhile Bachelorette mates announced they'd called disconnected their engagement, Nayte opened up astir the divided connected the Sept. 8 occurrence of The Viall Files, revealing helium broke up with Michelle implicit the phone.
"Our narration was tough," Nayte told big and chap Bachelor Nation prima Nick Viall. "There was tons of ups and downs, tons of arguments, tons of fights and conscionable not truly clicking, not truly seeing eye-to-eye."
Back successful June, Nayte and Michelle—who got engaged on season 18 of The Bachelorette past year—traveled to Los Angeles to observe her day with her friends and to be Wango Tango. But arsenic Nayte told Nick, "things were conscionable benignant of rocky" and helium said they got into an statement earlier doing property astatine the euphony festival.
In fact, helium said that the play wasn't going good successful general, noting helium and Michelle stayed up precocious "having precise heavy conversations" and that helium talked to her friends astir the pair's compatibility. Nayte besides said helium and Michelle had spoken astir splitting up before, sharing their archetypal breakup treatment was successful January.
"So the past time successful L.A., a speech was already heading towards a breakup, which again it wasn't our archetypal clip of america having breakup conversations," helium said. "This is astir apt our 3rd clip having a breakup conversation."
Nayte—who lived successful Austin, Texas astatine the time—said helium past headed to the airport, wherever helium called his ma and sister and cried. After a tearful formation home, the income enforcement called his friends and family, including his ma again. He said helium remembered thinking, "I don't spot the narration moving anymore."
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While helium was talking to his mom, Nayte received a telephone from Michelle, who lives successful Minnesota. Nayte said helium thought she was backmost astatine location but that she was inactive astatine the airport—which "just benignant of makes the communicative adjacent worse." He said she past brought up them not attending CMA Fest the pursuing week.
"She's like, 'Hey, if we're not doing CMAs adjacent week we person to springiness them a crushed why,'" Nayte noted. "And I conscionable blurted out, like, 'We're not doing CMAs due to the fact that I can't beryllium with you anymore.'
He added, "So yeah, I broke up with her implicit the phone, which is simply a dick move."
Nayte and Michelle announced their breakup connected Instagram aboriginal that month. In a July occurrence of Off the Vine With Kaitlyn Bristowe, erstwhile Bachelorette and big of Michelle's season Kaitlyn Bristowe said Michelle was "blindsided" by the split.
So however does Nayte feel about the allegation that helium broke up with Michelle without warning? "I can't archer idiosyncratic however to feel," the erstwhile contestant, who has denied cheating rumors, told Nick. "So if Michelle felt blindsided, I can't instrumentality that distant from her. But I cognize the world of it is that this wasn't our archetypal clip talking astir a breakup."
Aside from her associated divided connection with Nayte, Michelle hasn't said excessively overmuch astir the breakup. However, she suggested connected a July episode of The Ben and Ashley I. Almost Famous podcast that it was not thing she had predicted.
"Where I'm struggling with this portion is it's similar you ne'er cognize however overmuch to say, you ne'er cognize however to grip it, you ne'er cognize however it's going to beryllium taken," the former teacher said. "But I volition accidental that this is not thing that I foresaw, and I'll permission it there."
E! News has reached retired to Michelle for comment.
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