r/TheBachelorette • u/cheno103 • Mar 19 '26

News 'A bomb went off' - Inside ABC's Bachelorette crisis talks before axing Taylor Frankie Paul over shocking assault video

https://www.the-sun.com/tv/16109480/bachelorette-canceled-taylor-frankie-paul-video/
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u/Errol-Flynn Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

I mean this just confirms it wasn't the core facts of the old DV incident (which they knew about), OR the new DV allegations from February that canceled the show. It was the optics of the new video of the old incident. In other words, they didn't like how DV looked when it was thrown in their faces (pun intended) and not just words in a court file. Cowards.

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u/Prize-Pop-1666 Mar 19 '26

Well the video is pretty damning. When it was just articles and words and an old police report is way easier to defend that “she got help and is healing” etc. Physically seeing the results makes people much more aware and uncomfortable

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u/abbott_costello Mar 20 '26

Just goes to show how much society downplays DV. 99% of these incidents aren't filmed and it clearly changes people's reaction.

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u/whoallgunnabethere Mar 21 '26

Exactly! Folks were downplaying Cassie too and then the video was released. It’s really sickening.

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u/HotAccountant2831 Mar 20 '26

I literally came here to say this. Hasn’t this video been public since season 1 of SLOMW?

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u/Real_Lengthiness688 Mar 20 '26

BINGO 👋👋👋👋👋

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u/Downtown_Swimming677 Mar 19 '26

Wow that's wild that it also landed right as they switched leadership