The ex-animator of "Bachelor" Chris Harrison breaks the silence after being canceled: "I was used".
The reality host left the franchise in 2021 after 19 years and a controversial interview.
In the summer of 2021, the Bachelor The franchise has undergone a major change. After 19 years, accommodate Chris Harrison left The pillar of reality TV following a controversial interview on a former competitor. Now, seven months after announcing his departure, the 51 -year -old man opened his experience on his experience on his new podcast, The most dramatic podcast of all time .
During the first episode - which was released on January 9 and is divided into two -hour games - Harrison speaks of resignation and the way he felt in the middle of the reaction against him, including why he thinks he " was used ". Read the rest to see what the former animator of reality had to say.
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The Harrison test began with an interview in 2021.
In February 2021, Harrison was interviewed More through Bachelorette Star Rachel Lindsay . She questioned the host on Rachael Kirkconnell , a candidate on the season of The single person It was broadcast at the time. Photos had surfaced the competitor at a party on the theme of plantations before in 2018. ( Kirkconnell apologized Shortly after the interview is broadcast.)
Harrison immediately defended Kirkconnell against criticism. At one point, he asked Lindsay: "Is it not a good look in 2018 or is it not a good look in 2021?" To this, the More Anchor replied: "It's not a good look." Harrison has also repeatedly mentioned the "awakened police" for having come after Kirkconnell.
He apologized after the interview was broadcast.
Harrison quickly faced a backlash for the interview and apologized. In a statement published on Instagram ( via People ), Harrison wrote: "To my Bachelor Family of Nation - I always have an error when I make one, so I am here to express sincere excuses. I have this incredible platform to talk about love, and yesterday I took a position on subjects that I should have been better informed. Although I do not speak for Rachael Kirkconnell, my intentions were simply to ask for grace by offering him an opportunity to speak of his own name. ""
He continued: "What I realize now that I did is cause harm by speaking wrongly in a way that perpetuates racism, and for that, I am so sorry." Harrison also apologized for not having listened more to Lindsay and fans of the show.
The longtime host then Reculated from the show in February before announced that He was going completely in June 2021.
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He says he had trouble.
On his new podcast, Harrison spoke of the tense period after his More Comments have become viral and how it affected his health. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"My heart was broken. I was emptied. I was embarrassed," he said. "I was angry with myself. I was disappointed with myself. The last thing in the world I always wanted to do was to be an agent of everything that is negative, that it has to see With the breed or anything ... For my part, I was sick, sick in my stomach. And I lost 20 pounds. I did not sleep, I did not eat. "He Also explained that Paparazzi was parked outside his house "for weeks".
He had the impression that his apologies had not been heard.
Harrison explained that even if someone in his life had told him that it was a mistake to apologize, he knew it was the right thing to do. And he thought that the excuses would be accepted, allowing him to move on. But he said that the state of the country at the time, in terms of pandemic issues and politicized civil rights COVID-19, meant that his apologies were not really heard.
"I had no problem expressing these first apology," said Harrison. "These were written excuses that I presented on Instagram. But there was so much noise at the time, it didn't matter. The excuses did not matter ... Even after these excuses , we were always on the ground zero. And it was confusing and it was frightening. "
He felt that he was used by both sides of the political fracture.
Harrison said that due to the moment of the incident, he was "used" as a cultural and political accessory.
"My name has become synonymous with this political moment and flash in a bottle, and all of a sudden, someone on CNN talks about me for the end of the left," he said. "So what Ben Shapiro And anyone on Fox talks about me, conservative and that's what's wrong with the world, so I was used by good. ""
The host also expressed that he felt like others Bachelor The franchise stars, who talked about him on podcasts and in interviews, also took advantage of the situation.
He said, "I thought that will disappear, it will pass . And every day, I woke up and there was something new. ""
