Jenn Tran thought she had found her happily ever after, but she was left in tears following a broken engagement. Fans have been weighing in on the shocking end to her love story, expressing that she picked the wrong guy.
“The Bachelorette” star Jenn Tran, 26, was left heartbroken after the man she thought would be the love of her life let her down. The physician assistant student shocked many when she decided to propose to Devin Strader in Hawaii during the show’s finale because they think she is better suited for another man she didn’t pick.
User comment about Jenn Tran, posted on September 4, 2024 | Source: X/@basicbachbabes
The scene was set; Tran looked stunning in a beautiful white lace dress as she proposed to Strader, intending to “choose herself in this journey.” However, things went awry for the former couple after the final rose ceremony when they left Hawaii.
According to Tran, Strader began pulling away from the relationship. She divulged how all the wonderful promises of forging a new life together in a shared space that Strader committed to were made in vain.
Adding further insult to injury is the fact that, initially, the ex-couple had a planned counseling appointment in August. However, the evening before, Strader broke off their engagement during a 15-minute phone call with Tran.She divulged, “He had basically said that he didn’t love me anymore and didn’t feel the same way and he felt like things were off the second he proposed.” Strader had gone from making bold and proud declarations of devotion to falling out of love like it was nothing.
After he ended their relationship, Tran saw her ex in person during the “After the Final Rose” episode where things got confrontational.
In addition to letting Strader know how heartbroken he had left her, Tran asked him why he called off their engagement via a phone call.
Not backing down, Tran made it clear that she felt as though Strader never fully committed to their engagement. She told him how ready she had been to spend the rest of her life with him and the plans she had for the two of them to start a family, but added how he never wanted that with her.
A poignant reaction comes from a viewer on X. “Sorry but the producers making Jenn watch her proposal sitting next to Devin in front of everyone is cruel. #TheBachelorette,” penned the X user.
Others believe that Tran should have never picked Strader in the first place, expressing how she would have been better off choosing another contestant with whom she ended things, Jonathon Johnson.
“You know who wouldn’t have [broken] off an engagement and claim he never loved you?” wrote someone on X, referencing Johnson.
Jonathon Johnson and Jenn Tran in an episode of “The Bachelorette,” posted on August 7, 2024 | Source: Instagram/bacheloretteabce
“He was the Right choice.. No doubt,” added another netizen. “Undisputed choice. Undoubtedly,” reiterated an observer. Agreeing with all the aforementioned comments, someone else noted, “[Exactly]. He was my choice for Jenn.”
Jonathon Johnson and Jenn Tran. | Source: Instagram/bacheloretteabce
Speaking to Deadline, who asked whether he got the closure he needed after having a final conversation with Tran, Johnson shared, “I think watching the episode back gave me all the closure I needed.”
He went on to compare the relationship he shared with Tran to the other two she shared with fellow final contestants Marcus Shoberg and Strader. Johnson said that while it felt like he and Tran were stuck in limbo with their love for one another, her other two relationships were solid.
“Maybe we’re just really good friends. We’re also attracted to each other, but we weren’t in love with each other, and seeing the relationship she had with those other two was the closure I needed to be like, it just wasn’t as strong for the two of us, and that’s okay,” reflected Johnson.
