Colton Underwood Says He Was 'Blackmailed' Into Coming Out and Is Sorry for Allegedly Stalking Cassie Randolph

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It has been a turbulent year for the historically racist, heteronormative, and all-around regressive-yet-still-somehow-addictive Bachelor franchise as a whole, as more and more people start to realize that the foundations of the show are foundationally fucked up. And amidst that turmoil has been still more chaos surrounding former Bachelorette contestant and Bachelor Colton Underwood, who came out as gay to Robin Roberts on Good Morning America just weeks ago, announced a reality show about that journey and seemed to want to avoid talking about a restraining order filed against him last summer by Cassie Randolph, the woman he harassed into pretending to agree to marry him on national television in 2019. \n

, Underwood says the story of his coming out is even more stressful than it seemed already, as his public declaration was in response to attempts to blackmail him. He also seems to acknowledge that he did do the things Randolph—allegations which include putting a tracking device on her car—and that his actions in that situation are tied to the panic inherent in being a closeted person in the public eye.

As to the blackmail, Underwood says that sometime last year, he visited a Los Angeles “spa known for catering to gay clientele,” but says he was there “just to look around.” After his visit, Underwood says he got an email from someone claiming to have a photo of his visit, and though he never saw that photo, the email was the impetus for a conversation with his agent about his sexuality.

“Later, as Underwood’s very small inner circle came to learn about his sexuality, the production company pitched him on the idea of a show about his journey coming out, and after five months of therapy and meeting with a psychiatrist, Underwood decided his story could help others. The show ultimately sold to Netflix, and is slated to premiere later this year.”

However, before all of this happened, Randolph and Underwood were filming a different reality show about their lives as friends following their breakup, though Underwood was still not out to her. While Underwood says that an agreement with Randolph limits him from discussing his actions freely, the interview does attempt to clarify the “abuse” allegations: “I did not physically touch or physically abuse Cassie in any way, shape or form,” Underwood said.

But no reports specified that the abuse was physical, and instead alleged a history of intimidation and harassment, from standing outside Randolphs window late at night, to repeatedly calling, texting, and following her—“I never want people to think that I’m coming out to change the narrative, or to brush over and not take responsibility for my actions, and now that I have this gay life that I don’t have to address my past as a straight man,” Underwood says.

 

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