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Rachel Lindsayis living large following her divorce fromBryan Abasolo.
On Saturday, Jan. 18, Lindsay, 39, made her first public appearance sincesettling her divorce on Jan. 7as she attended ESPN’s 11th Annual Allstate Party ahead of the college football national championship in Atlanta, Georgia.
TheBachelorettealum was smiling and in good spirits as she posed for photos at the event in a chic, all-black outfit and a suede brown jacket.
Lindsay also attended Monday night’s game between Notre Dame and Ohio State — the latter took home the win 34-23 — with the College Football Playoff Foundation’s Extra Yard for Teachers organization. She posted a photo from the field at the Mercedez-Benz Stadium on her Instagram Stories after the game, calling the weekend “another successful…year” with the charitable organization.
Though she appeared to be in good spirits over the weekend, the outing came just days after Lindsay broke her silence on her divorce from Abasolo, 44, and admitted there were “so many things” she wanted to “address” after she’d “let a lot of people do the talking” over the last year.
“There are certain things that were said to play into the stereotype of me being a career woman that were intentionally done to try to win over the media,” she said on the Jan. 10 episode of her podcast,Higher Learning. “And it was really hard to see people run with that narrative.”
Lindsay called out her ex for “saying things that particularly play into the stereotype of me being an angry black female,” as she asserted that it “couldn’t be more false” that she had “placed [her] career over marriage” or “over wanting to have children,” as the chiropractor alleged.
The divorce “changed my whole perspective on everything,” she continued. “I don’t even know if I would get married again. I can’t even fathom that.”
Rachel Lindsay poses on the field after the college football national championship.therachlindsay/Instagram
therachlindsay/Instagram
Throughout their year-long divorce proceedings, the couple — who met and got engaged on season 13 ofThe Bachelorettein 2017 — went back and forth over their finances, with Abasolo continually requesting spousal support from Lindsay, and repeatedly disagreeing on how the conversation about Abasolo filing for divorce had gone down.
The filings also shed new light on the nature of their four-year marriage. The chiropractor claimed his wife “never showed any interest” in his career, that she wanted him “out of the way” and “not involved in ‘Hollywood’” and that he had “endured years of her verbal manipulation.”
“The reality is that I was the one stuck at home and stuck at work with a wife who never wanted to be around me,” he claimed.
Bryan Abasolo and Rachel Lindsay attend the Alzheimer’s Association Peace of Mind Luncheon at The Beverly Hills Hotel on November 09, 2023.Leon Bennett/Getty
Leon Bennett/Getty
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Lindsay, for her part, claimed that she and Abasolo “very rarely went out together” during their marriage, as “Bryan often worked late into the night and I traveled a lot for work.”
“In fact, we rarely saw each other or even lived together during our brief marriage,” she said in a June filing.
source: people.com
