Jenn Tran’s time on The Bachelorette ended in a proposal the show has never seen before. Since filming wrapped, Jenn’s life is also as it’s never been before as she continues to navigate singledom after getting engaged. Jenn and Devin Strader had one another, and viewers all over the world, convinced of their love, but it turns out it wasn’t meant to be.
Serving as a great “distraction,” The Bachelorette‘s Jenn has just been cast as one of this year’s Dancing with the Stars contestants. She explains this time in her life has been “chaotic,” while appearing on the Happy Hour with Joe and Serena podcast part one. Jenn says she still has “processing to do,” but is “moving forward” on DWTS.
Jenn Tran refuses proposal
During The Bachelorette, before Devin, 28, can pop the question, Jenn, 26, tells him she “loves him so deeply” but “can’t let him propose to her.”
She continues: “I’ve decided to choose myself in this journey.”
“The best version of myself is when I’m with you. I’m strong on my own, but I know that we’re stronger together and, Devin, I want to fight for you every day.”
The reality TV star proclaims she “doesn’t want to live without” Devin before breaking down in tears on the show.
Jenn then reaches for a clamshell ring box, opens it, and asks: “Devin Strader, will you please make me the happiest girl in the world and marry me?”
The two burst into laughter during the sweet moment before sealing their engagement with a kiss.
Jenn’s now single and not looking
Sadly for Jenn and Devin, their relationship didn’t go as expected.
During the After the Final Rose episode, Jenn said the man she saw propose “doesn’t exist anymore.”
Speaking during the episode, Jenn said: “It’s been a really hard couple of months, we had left Hawaii engaged and happy. I thought I found the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.”
She continues: “As soon as we left Hawaii, things were just different. It felt like he was pulling away.”
However, Devin has taken to social media to deny “pulling away” immediately after the Hawaii trip.
Jenn claims Devin called her on the phone to break off the engagement and told her he “didn’t love her anymore.”
Devin said the promises he made “he believed at the time,” adding: “That man loved you.”
He adds how he “fell short of a lot of Jenn’s expectations.”
Speaking on Happy Hour, Jenn says she’s still trying to work out what went wrong in her relationship with Devin. But, she also finds peace in the fact the relationship went the way it did before the two were as committed as “kids and marriage” later down the line.
Speaking of one of the show’s other contestants in part two of the podcast, Jonathon Johnson, Jenn says: “I love him, he’s just so sweet and kind…”
She adds how she wanted to “hang out with all the guys” from the house in a non-romantic way: “I feel, truthfully, a little defeated from the season… I loved this journey so much…”
“To come out of this with a really good friend like Jonathan is a win in my book, he’s such a great guy. Truthfully, I’m not in a place where I can date anybody right now or entertain the idea of somebody. My heart is just not there yet. But it feels really, really good to have a friend like him.”
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