Kaitlyn besides clarified that she wasn't accusing Chris of deliberately ignoring her erstwhile she recounted the incidental during the Jan. 31 quality connected Dear Media's Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast.

"I was conscionable saying that you and I were truthful adjacent and erstwhile everything went down…then I was similar 'Oh my gosh, I request to speech to Chris,'" she explained. "That was my archetypal reaction."

Prior to her hosting gig, ABC had chopped ties with Chris—the longstanding big of the show—after helium received backlash for defending Rachael Kirkconnell erstwhile photos surfaced of her attending a plantation-themed party.

Reflecting connected the experience, Kaitlyn shared however "the payment of hindsight" showed her that Chris' soundlessness had "nothing to bash with me."

"I was not reasoning astir what you could beryllium going through," Kaitlyn continued. "It wasn't astir me, you were going done truthful overmuch astatine that time."

Acknowledging that Chris "probably didn't adjacent know" what to accidental to her astatine that time, Kaitlyn added, "You're not similar me. You respond with logic. I respond with emotion."

As for Chris, helium noted however helium conscionable wanted a person to cheque up connected him astatine the time. Describing himself arsenic a "father figure" to galore of the radical helium met portion hosting The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, Chris said, "This time, I needed that flip of just: ‘Hey, however are you? Are you OK?' Not, ‘Are you OK with maine taking the amusement and you're irreplaceable.'"

Telling Kaitlyn that helium "appreciated" her reaching retired regardless, Chris added, "At that time, I didn't person the bandwidth to woody with each of that. By the way, I really, genuinely conscionable wasn't disquieted astatine each astir who was hosting and who was the adjacent mentor oregon what the amusement was going to do."