Rachel Lindsay Says Viral Chris Harrison Interview Resulted in Death Threats on ‘The View’: “I Got Blamed For His Actions”

Rachel Lindsay is opening up about the aftermath of her viral 2021 interview with reality host Chris Harrison. While appearing on The View to promote her new book, Miss Me With That, the former Bachelorette said that she endured death threats and developed PTSD due to online backlash.

Last February, Harrison faced controversy after defending Bachelor contestant Rachel Kirkconnell’s past racist behavior in an Extra interview with Lindsay, whose points he dismissed in the process.

“I was asking the most relevant question that related to the franchise at that time,” Lindsay said of the interview. “I would’ve asked anyone from the franchise who sat in that seat.”

The longtime Bachelor Nation host later publicly apologized to Lindsay, and has since exited the franchise. But as Lindsay pointed out, “it became my name affiliated with cancel culture.”

“I was being personally attacked for doing my job,” she said. “I got death threats for months. People wished that I was infertile. People told me they were going to get me. All these things that were happening to me, all because I asked a question. I got blamed for his actions.”

Lindsay first appeared on The Bachelor in 2016, before making history as the first Black Bachelorette later that year. She married her final rose pick, Bryan Abasolo, in 2019, but has since distanced herself from the franchise.

“It’s so traumatizing, because although I call out the Bachelor franchise and champion it for change, it did change my life, and I want to support it,” she added. “But I can’t support it in the same way after that, when the audience is so toxic.”

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.

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