Colton Underwood Says ‘Bachelor’ Producer Told Him Cassie Randolph Was Appearing on Clayton’s Finale: ‘Almost Famous’ Takeaways
15.03.2022 - 17:05
/ usmagazine.com
Bachelor Nation may have been surprised to see Cassie Randolph in the audience during part one of Clayton Echard’s Monday, March 14, finale, but the season 23 Bachelor wasn’t.
“I did know that she was going on. One of the producers texted me just to give me a heads-up, which, I mean, obviously, they don’t even owe me that at this point. But I did appreciate that,” the 30-year-old Coming Out Colton star said on Monday’s episode of iHeartRadio’s “Almost Famous” podcast, which taped before the live finale aired. “Whatever she needs to say, like, I’ve always from the very beginning [said] whatever she has to say or vent or do, I obviously have no control over that. It’s whatever she feels like she needs to do.”
Cassie, 26, made her first public appearance related to the ABC series on Monday since she filed a temporary restraining order against Colton during fall 2020. Several months after the legal filing, which alleged he stalked and harassed her, was dropped, Colton came out as gay.
“There’s no way to, like, sugarcoat it. I mean, it hasn’t been the easiest process. And I’m really happy, really good now, but it took a lot of work to get there,” Colton told Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti on Monday. “It was covered pretty much in [Coming Out Colton] as far as how things went right after the breakup, and COVID and all of that. But at the end of it, I mean, look, I could have handled a lot of things better and … saved a lot of people a lot of time, but at the end of the day, like, my path to coming out, my path to finding happiness was definitely one that was pretty rocky.”
During the podcast, Ben sounded surprised that Colton was informed about Cassie’s appearance.
“They don’t give me any heads-up anymore. And then I just saw a