Reports state that Strader didn’t have any response other than to express how “regretfully late” he was in letting Tran know how he actually felt the whole time. Concerning the answer he gave for why he started following Georgas, Strader said he had no excuse for doing so.
Not backing down, Tran made it clear that she felt as though Strader never fully committed to their engagement. She told him how ready she had been to spend the rest of her life with him and the plans she had for the two of them to start a family, but added how he never wanted that with her.
“So don’t sit here and try to tell me how I feel. Because you don’t. You had one foot out the door the entire time,” she asserted. Fans of the show who witnessed the proposal, how Tran got her heart broken, and had a face-to-face conversation with Strader, are up in arms on social media.
A poignant reaction comes from a viewer on X who posted a picture of Tran crying next to Strader as the two watched the episode back. “Sorry but the producers making Jenn watch her proposal sitting next to Devin in front of everyone is cruel. #TheBachelorette,” penned the X user.
Others believe that Tran should have never picked Strader in the first place, expressing how she would have been better off choosing another contestant whom she ended things with, Jonathon Johnson.
“You know who wouldn’t have [broken] off an engagement and claim he never loved you?” wrote someone on X with a picture of Johnson attached to their tweet.
Echoing the sentiment, another person also posed a rhetorical question which read, “[You] know who wouldn’t be hurting [Jenn] right now?” This person did so with the accompaniment of a photo of Will Smith gesturing to something on his left, which, in this case, was a picture of Johnson.
