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Rachel Kirkconnell

After Matt decided not to propose to Rachel during the finale, which aired in March 2021, they left the show as a couple. D The two broke up secretly. However, in February 2021 he was accused of being a racist and his photos were resurfaced at an antebellum-themed party on a plantation at the college. Rachel apologized for her actions twice via Instagram before sitting down with Matt and the guest host Emmanuel Acho the time After the final rose.

“When he first called me to end things, my initial reaction was I was very confused. I was so blindsided," Rachel said in the special. "But once that initial reaction went away, I thought, you know, I thought how strong our relationship was. So for him to end things, like, he must be very, very through everything. Got hurt. It was hard, because I lost the love of my life."

After they were spotted together in April 2021, Matt and Rachel confirmed that in May they were giving their romance another shot. This couple said privately our In July 2023 that star used to guess About them breaking up again.

“I think we've been through so much at this point that nothing has really brought us back to the stage. I understand — because we're together so much that whenever our schedules don't line up or we have our own things going on, I understand where people are coming from," Rachel said.

Matt, for his part, admits that even his mother tends to worry about the state of their relationship.

“I'd come home and if Rachel wasn't with me, my mom was like, 'What happened? Where's Rachel?'" she said our. “I'm like, 'He had to go home to see his family!' He has his mother and his father and brother and sister (in Atlanta).