Cassie Randolph: I am Pleased Colton Underwood Got here Out as Homosexual, However …

Earlier this 12 months, Cassie Randolph revealed that she discovered that Colton Underwood was homosexual the identical method as everybody else.

No, we don’t imply gaydar. She discovered it from headlines after he opened up publicly about his sexuality.

However Cassie was very famously his ex. Worse, he didn’t deal with their breakup properly — together with her accusing him of stalking her post-split.

Since then, they’ve each moved on. Underneath the circumstances, how is she feeling about Colton’s popping out?

On this week’s episode of the Ben and Ashley I Nearly Well-known Podcast, the hosts requested Cassie Randolph a query.

It was a easy ask … however positively got here with numerous baggage connected.

How, they questioned, does Cassie really feel about Colton popping out as homosexual publicly with out first telling her?

“I really feel like this can be a very loaded query,” Cassie acknowledged.

She isn’t fallacious about that.

Nonetheless, she was nonetheless capable of provide a solution.

“I’m very pleased that he’s, you recognize, is at peace with himself,” Cassie affirmed.

“And,” she added, “not carrying that burden anymore, after all.”

That was not her public response to his popping out initially, however she has had time to replicate upon all of it. And time to heal from their prior breakup.

“It was a really simply general arduous time for me,” Cassie understated.

“So,” she then expressed, “I really feel like there was only one factor after one other.”

“And,” Cassie admitted, “I used to be simply extraordinarily overwhelmed with all the pieces occurring.”

That may be a nuanced and, we consider, a really trustworthy reply to the “loaded query.”

Colton has each proper to dwell as his genuine self. It’s after all a tragedy that our deeply homophobic society saved him from this for therefore lengthy.

However that doesn’t imply that Colton’s story wouldn’t inevitable go away Cassie feeling some form of method.

At first, Colton and Cassie met when Colton was the lead on The Bachelor Season 23.

This was again in 2019. He and Cassie bonded rapidly, but it surely was a tumultuous season.

Initially, Colton and Cassie felt that they couldn’t make it after her father declined to present them his blessing.

However after the primary portion of the season ended, the 2 determined to present issues one other strive.

As we famous, this finally led to a bitter breakup. Colton allegedly stalked Cassie, to the purpose the place she sought a restraining order. That’s scary stuff. It’s also inexcusable.

Colton got here out as homosexual. He now has a fiance. And that’s great.

Nevertheless it doesn’t change his alarming habits amidst his breakup with Cassie.

The concern of a well-known, closeted athlete clinging desperately to a lie that society imposed upon him at beginning can encourage somebody to do so much. However a motivation isn’t an excuse.

Some Bachelor followers mistakenly felt that Colton was fallacious for courting Cassie or any lady, or for showing on the present. In spite of everything, he’s homosexual. Wasn’t he losing the time of all of those ladies?

Properly, that’s not the way it works. For that, Colton is to not blame.

Going via the motions of heterosexuality, even in a single’s ideas, is the fault of the homophobia that continues to be entrenched in our society. It sucks that Colton needed to undergo that. And it sucks that Cassie needed to undergo that with him.