Rachel Lindsay stepped onto the red carpet earlier this month to attend a pre-taping for the 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Burbank, California, which airs Friday.
The 36-year-old lawyer turned media personality penned a scathing op-ed, published Monday by Vulture, about her time within Bachelor Nation, calling hateful fans 'a Bachelor Klan'.
She said there is a dark side to Bachelor Nation, the 'Bachelor Klan', that is 'hateful, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and homophobic'. After the piece was published, Lindsay then slammed the magazine for choosing the 'clickbait' headline, 'Oops, I Blew Up The Bachelor'.
Her story: Rachel Lindsay penned a scathing op-ed, published Monday by Vulture, about her time within Bachelor Nation, calling hateful fans 'a Bachelor Klan' (Pictured June 13 attending a Daytime Emmy Awards pre-taping)
'The franchise has spent 19 years cultivating a toxic audience,' Lindsay wrote in her latest op-ed. 'They have constantly given it a product it wants: a midwestern/southern white, blonde, light-eyed Christian. Not all viewers are like that.'
In the wide-ranging article, Rachel opened up about the toxic environment she experienced as part of Bachelor Nation and why she decided to walk away from her popular Bachelor Happy Hour podcast following Chris Harrison's departure.
'My Higher Learning co-host [Van Lathan] and I have divided it - there is a Bachelor Nation, and there is a Bachelor Klan,' she said.
'Bachelor Klan is hateful, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and homophobic. They are afraid of change,' she explained. 'They are afraid to be uncomfortable. They are afraid when they get called out.'
'The franchise has spent 19 years cultivating a toxic audience,' Lindsay wrote in her latest op-ed. 'They have constantly given it a product it wants: a midwestern/southern white, blonde, light-eyed Christian. Not all viewers are like that.'
While Lindsay knows not all of Bachelor Nation is like that, the more vicious side of the fandom was what forced her to exit her Bachelor Happy Hour podcast.
Rachel said she was 'exhausted from defending myself against a toxic fandom', adding that the vitriol worsened amid the Chris Harrison scandal.
Harrison was axed from the network after he came under fire in February for making racially insensitive comments during an Extra interview with Rachel.
Just last week it was reported that Harrison scored a hefty payout from ABC in order leave Bachelor Nation quietly - but not nearly as much as he originally demanded.
!['My Higher Learning co-host [Van Lathan] and I have divided it - there is a Bachelor Nation, and there is a Bachelor Klan,' she said. 'Bachelor Klan is hateful, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and homophobic. They are afraid of change. They are afraid to be uncomfortable. They are afraid when they get called out.' (seen in the finale of The Bachelorette)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/06/21/20/44501437-9709987-image-a-75_1624304806392.jpg)
'My Higher Learning co-host [Van Lathan] and I have divided it - there is a Bachelor Nation, and there is a Bachelor Klan,' she said. 'Bachelor Klan is hateful, racist, misogynistic,
