'The Bachelor' Season 28 star Rachel Nance regrets crying as she addresses getting 'racist' comments on Women Tell All
AGOURA HILLS, CALIFORNIA: In 'The Bachelor' Season 28's Women Tell All, Rachel Nance addressed that she got a lot of "hateful messages" as soon as the season aired.
"A lot of racist comments towards me and just, you know, the N-word and calling me 'Jungo-Asian' all because I got a rose," she said.
Rachel got emotional while addressing the hateful comment on national TV. But she later regretted being emotional on the show while bringing up the online bully topic.
"I wish I didn't cry as much, but I think you could really feel how much it affected me by sharing that," Rachel said to People.
She further explained, "I thought for further people who look like me, who are going to go through what I go through, I need to speak what's happening and bring light to it because ignorance is not bliss."
She further confessed to being nervous about addressing "racist" comments on national TV.
Rachel said, "I was nervous to talk about it because I know some people feel uncomfortable when they hear that racism is still going on in 2024. But I think people need to sit in feeling uncomfortable because, how do you think I feel getting those messages?"
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'I can get what I deserve': 'The Bachelor' Season 28 taught Rachel Nance an important lesson
Rachel confessed to the outlet that she did not have much self-confidence before coming to the show. She said that previously "I just dated because I thought, 'Hey, I don't want to be alone.'"
But Rachel learned a lot of things as she got featured in 'The Bachelor' Season 28.
She said, "After dating Joey, he really taught me that I can get what I deserve and there's someone out there for me. It wasn't him, that's totally fine. Whoever it is, call me up because I'm tired!"
Rachel Nance is 'honored' to have inspired girls like her through 'The Bachelor' Season 28
Rachel finds herself blessed to be part of the national TV show. She said, "Growing up as a mixed girl in Hawaii, there weren't many people who looked like me on TV."
She says to the outlet, "I'm very honored that moving forward, girls can say, 'Hey, if Rachel can do that, I can do that. If Rachel can speak her truth, I can speak her truth.'"
Rachel felt proud in portraying that there was nothing wrong with having an interracial relationship.
She hopes "mixed girls" like her to get more recognition and representation.
The new episodes of 'The Bachelor' Season 28 air every Monday at 8 pm ET on ABC.