Former “Bachelorette” Michelle Younger and fiancé Nayte Olukoya affirm they’ve damaged up simply weeks after denying rumors of a break up.
“To those that have supported Nayte and I, together with Bachelor Nation, I do know I converse for the each of us when saying having a relationship within the public eye has not been simple,” Younger, 29, wrote Friday on her Instagram Story.
“I’m struggling to say that Nayte and I can be going our separate methods however I stand with him in realizing the heaviness that’s current in each of our hearts as this relationship has been very actual for us.”
The schoolteacher-turned-reality star then addressed her now-ex straight.
“To you, Nayte, you shortly grew to become my greatest pal and the love I’ve for you is extremely robust. I’ll by no means cease desirous to see you succeed,” she wrote.
“I’ll at all times acknowledge and respect the adventures, assist, and development each Nayte and this expertise have introduced me. On the identical time, I’m deeply hurting and can want time and area to work by this heartbreak.”
For his half, Olukoya informed followers that he realized Younger was not the individual he’s “imply to spend the remainder of [my] life with.”
He additionally defined that he hopes to navigate their break up privately — even if many followers of the “Bachelor” franchise have been invested of their relationship for months.
“Michelle and I are going to maneuver ahead individually. Hearts are heavy, feelings are excessive, and we’re coping with this the easiest way we will,” he wrote. “Michelle and I are naturally non-public folks, and in terms of this breakup, we’ll proceed being so.”
Nonetheless, he famous that he and Younger are grateful for the general public assist they’ve obtained all through their short-lived journey as a pair.
“To the general public who has supported these two full strangers in your tv display screen, we respect you a lot,” Olukoya wrote, although he instructed that followers ought to suppose twice earlier than expressing any detrimental opinions in regards to the pair’s determination to half methods.
“Our relationship could have developed within the public eye, and we all know this information will convey a whole lot of blended reactions, however please keep in mind that that is actual,” he wrote.
“The feelings are actual. The heartbreak is actual. And that we’re actual. We’re human beings going by a breakup, and everyone knows breakups are troublesome. So we’re asking that you just enable us our privateness in order that we will mend our hearts within the privateness of our personal lives.”
The duo is looking it quits simply weeks after Younger shut down hypothesis of a break up. Rumors swirled on-line when social media sleuths seen that her 3.2-carat Neil Lane engagement ring was lacking.
“OK, I sometimes don’t come on right here and deal with a majority of these issues, however as a result of I obtained SO many messages about it … There’s a video circulating of me on a rooftop this weekend and I’m not carrying my engagement ring,” Younger mentioned in a sequence of Instagram Story movies.
“To the one that is paying shut sufficient consideration to catch that second,” she continued, “you additionally need to be paying shut sufficient consideration to see one in all my good associates briefly take away my engagement ring to strive it on after which place it again on my finger.”
The “Bachelor Blissful Hour” podcast co-host and her remaining rose recipient acquired engaged throughout the “Bachelorette” Season 18 finale in December 2021.
