Chris Harrison is reflecting on his tumultuous exit from The Bachelor franchise with a little bit of gratitude.
Greater than two years in the past, Harrison stepped away from the franchise following backlash for defending Season 25 contestant Rachael Kirkconnell, who had obtained her personal share of criticism for attending an antebellum-themed occasion in faculty.
Now, throughout an interview on Bachelorette alum Jason Tartick’s podcast, he mentioned he nonetheless views the present as “a blessing,” although he additionally admits it was a “poisonous scenario” towards the tip.
“I nonetheless have a look at this as a blessing in my life. It was laborious at first. Clearly, it wasn’t instant that I felt nice about every little thing, as a result of what I went by means of was tumultuous,” Harrison mentioned. “I don’t want it on anyone. It was horrifying on a variety of ranges and one thing that I pray to God my worst enemy by no means goes by means of. However, with that mentioned, I knew I needed to take away myself from what turned a really poisonous scenario.”
Harrison additionally speculated that, had he been given the prospect, he in all probability may have weathered the storm and “figured it out.”
“All of us may have figured it out, however I needed to take away myself from that poisonous scenario,” he continued. “And so I’m happy with that call. I’m proud that I dealt with it the way in which I did and I nonetheless have a look at [the show] as a blessing as a result of it modified my life on so many ranges.”
Harrison additionally mirrored on the constructive facets of internet hosting the franchise for practically 20 years, together with the chums (and cash) he’d made.
He added: “Financially, in fact. It modified my life. It modified my youngsters’ lives…however on the identical time I will also be grateful that I’m gone. That’s a relationship I don’t must be in anymore as a result of it wasn’t wholesome.”
Nonetheless, leaving the present when he did pressured him to ” mourn the lack of one thing that I didn’t intend to exit then.”
“I might have in all probability quickly, however not then, like that,” he mentioned, explaining that he’d been approached to host different actuality sequence since his exit, however he’d shunned accepting. “And so there was mourning a loss there and I needed to understand, like after I left my marriage, take your time and don’t simply leap again into the subsequent relationship. That’s not the bandaid that’s gonna heal that wound.”
No person ought to get their hopes up for Harrison’s return to The Bachelor franchise, both. The truth star instructed Tartick with out hesitation that he isn’t open to internet hosting The Bachelor anymore.
He additionally steered that the sequence has begun “going downhill” since he left, and it’ll face an uphill battle making an attempt to carry onto its crown among the many slew of courting sequence which have tried to take its place within the cultural zeitgeist over the previous few years.
““As soon as I left, individuals began taking their photographs on the champ they usually’ve succeeded and now there’s competitors and now there’s exhibits [that] are within the zeitgeist, they’re being talked about, they’re getting press that we used to get,” he mentioned. “Once more, it’s laborious to outlive when while you don’t have these eyeballs anymore, as a result of individuals will speak about one other present.”
