Rachel Lindsay Says Bryan Abasolo Divorce Has Taught Her to Be 'Very Resilient' amid Hardship

Mar. 15, 2025

Rachel Lindsay (left); Bryan Abasolo.Photo:Phillip Faraone/Getty; Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Phillip Faraone/Getty; Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Rachel Lindsayis learning to embrace her new era of life.

The former Bachelorette, 39, is in the midst of a drawn-out divorce fromBryan Abasolo, whom she met and got engaged to onher season ofThe Bachelorettein 2017 andmarried in 2019. But she’s absorbing all the life lessons she can in this period.

“I’m stronger than I think,” the former attorney toldE! News. “I feel like I’m learning something every single day.”

Lindsay shared that she’s “just being very resilient” and “really leaning on family and friends” as she continues battling out the divorce with Abasolo, 44, to whomshe’s been court-ordered to give spousal supportdespite her fervent opposition.

“A lot of people think because you carry yourself a certain way that you’re always strong. Over time, my family has realized, ‘No, we have to check her to make sure everything is OK,’ because sometimes you need them,” Lindsay told the outlet.

Rachel Lindsay attends the 73rd Annual Miss Teen USA Pageant at Peacock Theater.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

SinceAbasolo filed for divorce on Jan. 2, citing irreconcilable differences, the former couple have traded jabs at each other in various court filings.

Bryan Abasolo and Rachel Lindsay attend The Blonds fashion show at New York Fashion Week in September 2017.Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Along with disagreements over how the divorce actually was communicated, Lindsay and Abasolo have shared damning accounts of what their four-year marriage looked like behind closed doors.

In a July filing, the chiropractor claimed that his ex-wife “never showed any interest in [his] business” and that her “jet-setting career often took her away from our martial residence while I stayed home.” He also claimed that Lindsay wanted him “out of the way” and “not involved in ‘Hollywood.'”

“The reality is that I was the onestuck at home and stuck at work with a wife who never wanted to be around meduring our marriage,” he further claimed.

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Lindsay, for her part, said in a June filing thatthe couple “rarely saw each other or even lived together during [their] brief marriage.“The former attorney said she “traveled so much for work that I was rarely in Miami with Bryan” in their first year of marriage, and they “very rarely went out together and did not even go on monthly dates.”

source: people.com