Tayshia Adams broke down in tears as she discussed the death of George Floyd on ‘The Bachlorette’
Tayshia Adams is going there on The Bachelorette and we’re here for it.
Even though the reality dating competition show is usually all about the romance, this week’s episode took a more serious turn and devoted a lot of airtime to conversations about race.
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On Tuesday’s episode of the ABC series, Adams (who took over for Clare Crawley mid-season) opened up about how the tumultuous summer and racial reckoning that erupted after the death of George Floyd prompted her to re-examine her thoughts on race.
She broke down into tears while discussing how the death of Floyd and resulting social unrest affected her while speaking to one of her suitors, Ivan Hall.
“Being in Orange County and surrounded by a lot of people that don’t look like me — being the only person that looks like me — I’m realizing that I’ve been trying so hard my whole life to blend in because I knew I was different,” she said on the show. “I didn’t really want to cry about it or open up about it, but hearing people yell ‘Black Lives Matter,’ it hit me more than I realize just because those are people in my backyard that I’ve been trying to prove for so long that I’m the same as them.”
Source: Tayshia Adams opens up about race on ‘The Bachelorette’
