Bachelorette Jenn Tran Clarifies Jonathan Johnson Romance Rumors

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Jenn Tran suggested the reddish flags started to popular up soon aft her connection to Devin Strader successful Hawaii—like, the adjacent day.

“The time aft we got engaged, the archetypal happening helium asked the producers was, ‘How agelong bash radical enactment together?’” she said connected the Sept. 9 occurrence of the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast. “I was like, ‘You’re already anticipating that we’re breaking up?’ I didn’t deliberation thing of it astatine the time, but I flagged it arsenic a truly weird question to ask. Like, wherefore would you inquire that?”

However, Jenn noted this wasn’t the lone infinitesimal that gave her pause. The play 21 pb shared that, during their phantasy suite date, she and Devin talked astir moving to California successful the future. In fact, Jenn said she relayed this accusation to her BFF Nicole erstwhile she introduced Devin to her household during the finale.

So, the world prima expressed her astonishment erstwhile helium allegedly backtracked during 1 of their blessed mates weekends (a.k.a. erstwhile couples secretly conscionable up aft the amusement to walk clip unneurotic without spoiling the bid for fans).  

“In the blessed mates with Devin aft we got engaged," she added connected the podcast, "he was like, ‘Oh, I didn’t cognize you told Nicole that we would beryllium moving to California. I don’t really privation to bash that.'"

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Jenn alleged this wasn't the lone clip Devin backed retired during their long-distance romance. She besides said helium didn't text, telephone oregon alert retired to spot her arsenic often arsenic she expected and that she questioned however overmuch effort helium was putting into the relationship.

"There would conscionable beryllium truthful galore instances successful which I wouldn’t perceive from him for a full time oregon a full evening," the doc adjunct pupil stated connected Bachelor Happy Hour. "It’s like, ‘I don’t request to beryllium talking to you each the time.' But I don’t know, it was conscionable weird."

For his part, Devin called Jenn's comments astir the magnitude of emotion and effort helium displayed aft their engagement arsenic "false claims" and insisted his feelings connected the amusement were real.

"I cognize that’s getting confused by a batch of radical based disconnected of Jenn saying that I pulled distant instantly aft Hawaii," the freight institution proprietor said successful a since-deleted video posted to Instagram Sept. 10. "But I really lone ever pulled distant and started becoming distant post-breakup. And not conscionable close aft our breakup, we’re talking astir about the extremity of the period breakup."

He besides said it was hard to ticker himself "play second" to runner-up Marcus Shoberg connected the amusement and that helium wasn't Jenn's "first choice."

"I don't responsibility her for the feelings that she had towards Marcus," Devin added, "but I wasn't informed of that adjacent during our relationship."

But successful a Sept. 10 interrogation connected Off the Vine With Kaitlyn Bristowe, Jenn said she wouldn't person "chosen anybody different."

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Jenn and Devin divided successful aboriginal August. But adjacent earlier then, she knew thing was off.

During the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, Jenn recalled however Devin "was not ace blessed astir the the engagement" and however she'd agreed to instrumentality the unit disconnected of getting joined close distant by conscionable dating—saying they planned to necktie the knot aft 2 years.

However, things soon took a turn.

"Things were conscionable not good," she continued. "We were fighting, not making immoderate compromises, which is bad. I had sat him down. I was like, ‘Let’s speech astir this. What’s going connected here?’ He fundamentally said, ‘I’m conscionable not blessed anymore.’ He’s like, ‘Some days I aftermath up and I conscionable don’t consciousness it.’ I was like, ‘What bash you mean by that?’ He was like, ‘Somedays I aftermath up and I conscionable don’t emotion you.'"

Jenn said she near the speech sobbing but that Devin comforted her and offered to bash couples counseling.

"I was like, OK, there’s anticipation I think," she shared. "He wants to spell to couples counseling. He doesn’t privation thing to change. He loves me. OK, great. We’ll enactment connected his feelings."

But days later, Jenn continued connected the podcast, they got into a combat astir their blessed mates weekend—with her saying Devin would publication the latest formation to the destination and the earliest formation out. 

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Still, she thought they had worked things out. That is until Jenn asked if helium wanted to speech connected the telephone pursuing the airing of 1 of her Bachelorette episodes and she received a "very cryptic text."

"He’s like, 'Let’s speech tomorrow. This is simply a speech we’ll person time astatine the blessed couple,'" Jenn said connected Bachelor Happy Hour. "I was like, ‘I don’t similar what that means. Just telephone maine now. Let’s conscionable speech astir it.’"

So, they hopped connected the phone. As Jenn enactment it, "He was like, 'I don’t consciousness this anymore. I don’t privation to beryllium successful this narration anymore.' It’s not working.'"

She said they had a 15-minute telephone the adjacent time wherever helium allegedly told her, "'I can't accidental atrocious anymore. Like, I'm done.'"

As for Devin's side, helium said successful his Instagram video that determination were "multiple antithetic occassions" wherever helium tried to person the breakup speech with Jenn in-person.

"I did effort to conscionable up with her. I did effort to spell to the blessed couple," helium added. "And she did not fto me, saying that she didn’t merit to spell if it was conscionable going to beryllium a breakup. I didn’t cognize what other to do. She benignant of forced my hand."

And portion Jenn said Devin was the 1 who nary longer wanted to enactment connected their narration successful couples counseling, helium said they had gone to a fewer sessions unneurotic but that she fired their therapist without telling him.

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In his video, Devin insisted helium and Jenn had "multiple antithetic conversations regarding the breakup" aft their split.

"At nary constituent did I ever permission her successful the dark," the erstwhile contestant added successful his Sept. 10 post, "and I was precise unfastened and honorable astir everything that I stood for and particularly wherever my bosom was successful that clip and place."

Devin said helium distanced himself from Jenn adjacent the extremity of August due to the fact that helium didn't privation to beryllium "leading her on," noting their past speech connected the telephone was astir 2 weeks earlier After the Final Rose. However, helium said helium thought they were connected bully presumption based connected texts helium received from her a week earlier and the time of AFR.

Meanwhile, Jenn tells a antithetic story. 

"We hadn't been talking that week," she said connected the Sept. 12 occurrence of The Viall Files. "And the week earlier that, I got immoderate precise mean messages from him and we were not connected bully terms. Because I had asked to speech to him without the cameras, and helium had agreed and past abruptly ghosted maine and abruptly was not connected the aforesaid leafage arsenic me."

"That's not OK for the archetypal clip to beryllium seeing your ex-fiancé connected a stage," she aboriginal added, "and helium denied maine of that close to person a speech with him earlier that."

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As Devin recalled successful his video, helium didn't cognize what had been discussed earlier helium walked onto the AFR signifier Sept. 4, and helium thought helium and Jenn were successful a bully place. So, helium was amazed to find out, to enactment it simply, they weren't.

"Frankly I was stunned and frankly I was shocked and had nary words astatine the mode that our narration was being depicted connected TV," helium added. "It was perfectly asinine. It was really, truly disheartening to perceive the mode Jenn described it due to the fact that it wasn’t existent and we some knew it wasn’t true. But I didn’t privation to combat with her."

But Jenn isn't definite what Devin had expected.

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During AFR, Jenn called Devin retired for waiting truthful agelong to archer her however helium felt. And portion helium said helium did "come clean" astir having doubts aft the show, helium admitted helium “was regretfully late."

Jenn besides brought up however Devin followed and past unfollowed Bachelor Nation's Maria Georgas—who said she turned down the accidental to beryllium the play 21 Bachelorette aft appearing connected Joey Graziadei's play of The Bachelor with Jenn—after their split.

In his Instagram video, Devin said helium took "full accountability" for the societal media move—noting it was an "emotionally charged decision" helium made aft a post-breakup combat with Jenn and that helium apologized to her.

"Reflecting back, I bash recognize that I did marque a mediocre determination and I shouldn't beryllium playing with people's feelings, particularly erstwhile it's regarding their emotions," Devin, who said helium followed respective Bachelor Nation accounts, admitted. "I shouldn't besides beryllium pursuing radical that I person nary narration with whatsoever. I don't cognize Maria, I've ne'er met Maria, I've ne'er met up with Maria and I volition ne'er travel Maria."

In a Sept. 6 TikTok, Maria said she wasn't alert Devin followed her until aft helium backtracked and that she ne'er followed him—adding she had "nothing to bash with the ending" of his narration with Jenn.

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After Devin released his Instagram video—which featured his backstage texts with Jenn—she issued a response.

"I person not seen the video, and I don’t program connected it," she shared connected The Viall Files. "I cognize what happened. I don’t request to ticker a 13-minute video connected it, and he’s wasted already six months of my life. I’m not gonna springiness him different 2nd fto unsocial 13 minutes."

And Jenn said she has "no idea" wherefore Devin would bash this.

"When you get engaged to somebody, erstwhile you’re dating somebody, your archetypal thought is never, 'Oh my gosh, these texts mightiness really beryllium blasted for the full satellite to see,'" she added. "That is specified an penetration of privacy."

Ultimately, Jenn said she felt "so betrayed, truthful disrespected and conscionable upset and disappointed."

"I don’t person a occupation with him going retired determination and saying what helium needs to say," she clarified. "But I person a occupation with him invading my privateness and releasing texts without telling me, without conscionable giving maine notice....He conveniently blurred retired definite things but forgot to blur retired different things that were very, precise private. It’s similar my mom’s connected the net dude."

After deleting the video, Devin apologized.

“I profoundly americium truthful atrocious for showing delicate accusation from the bottommost of my heart,” helium wrote successful portion of a since-deleted Sept. 10 Instagram Story post. “That was not my intention. My lone volition is to amusement the narration from my perspective.”

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Jenn besides addressed a viral video of Devin hanging retired with different pistillate aft their split.

"Obviously, there’s a video circulating astir of him successful New York with this girl," she said connected Bachelor Happy Hour. "That was, I think, 2 weeks earlier AFR and we were breached up astatine that point. However, we had been talking. We had been talking astir gathering up and seeing wherever things go, seeing if we could enactment connected this, seeing if we tin extremity things connected bully terms, oregon immoderate it was."

Because, arsenic Jenn reiterated, she "deserved a speech in-person."

"I wanted that speech in-person and not to person to bash that connected unrecorded TV," she added. "He was starring maine connected to judge that determination was anticipation and determination was thing determination the full month. And past he’s retired successful New York with this girl. To my cognition it’s 1 of his ex-girlfriends."

In fact, Jenn said she had been warned astir the unnamed pistillate soon aft her engagement to Devin.

"I did get a DM erstwhile I came backmost from the amusement and idiosyncratic had warned maine astir this miss and I didn’t judge it," she continued. "I was like, ‘I emotion Devin. He would ne'er bash that to me.’ Now I’m kicking myself for not looking into that DM."

Devin has not publically addressed the video. E! News has reached retired for remark but has yet to perceive back.