Rachel Lindsay is blasting her estranged husband, Bryan Abasolo, for allegedly exaggerating their “glamorous” way of life in his January divorce petition.
In Lindsay’s responsive declaration, solely obtained by Web page Six on Thursday, the previous “Bachelorette” star says she does “not consent” to Abasolo’s request for spousal help and legal professional’s charges.
“I’m not flush with money, as he believes me to be,” Lindsay, 39, writes. “And I actually can not pay his legal professional $75,000 to litigate our uncomplicated divorce. If I did so, I’d not have enough funds remaining to pay my very own counsel.”
“Bachelorette” alum Rachel Lindsay is blasting her estranged husband, Bryan Abasolo, for allegedly exaggerating their “glamorous” way of life and journeys in his divorce petition. Getty Pictures for Revolve
Lindsay does “not consent” to Abasolo’s request for spousal help and legal professional’s charges. thebryanabasolo/Instagram
“I’m not flush with money, as he believes me to be,” Lindsay writes. therachlindsay/Instagram
The previous lawyer claims she has “roughly $88,500 in non-retirement funds” and that her “monetary scenario has modified in the previous few years.”
Lindsay at present co-hosts the “Larger Studying” podcast with Van Lathan.
“I’ve had sporadic social media offers, however my main supply of earnings since 2023 has been from my work with Spotify,” she explains.
The ex-reality star goes on to say that the estranged couple’s “marital way of life (‘MSOL’) was nowhere close to as glamorous as Bryan portrays it to be,” alleging that the 2 “not often noticed one another and even lived collectively throughout [their] transient marriage.”
“I’ve had sporadic social media offers, however my main supply of earnings since 2023 has been from my work with Spotify,” the previous lawyer explains. therachlindsay/Instagram
Lindsay goes on to say that the estranged couple’s “marital way of life (‘MSOL’) was nowhere close to as glamorous as Bryan portrays it to be.” thebryanabasolo/Instagram
Based on Lindsay, she and Abasolo — a 44-year-old chiropractor who additionally “hosts podcasts and receives earnings from social media” — had a marriage ceremony in Cancún in August 2019.
“Nevertheless, we have been legally married on October 4, 2019,” she says.
They agree that their date of separation is Dec. 31, 2023.
Abasolo, who met Lindsay when he competed on “The Bachelorette” in 2017, filed for divorce on Jan. 2.
“Always, Bryan and I maintained separate financial institution accounts (checking and financial savings), bank cards, retirement accounts and brokerage accounts. We had zero joint accounts throughout our marriage,” she writes, as she beforehand revealed that they didn’t signal a prenuptial settlement.
Lindsay explains their travels, saying their “journeys have been both sponsored or [they] every paid [their] personal airfare.” therachlindsay/Instagram
“If I used to be paying, I didn’t fly Bryan enterprise or firstclass. He flew economic system. We typically cut up the lodge prices 50/50,” she pens. therachlindsay/Instagram
“From October 2019 to March 2021, earlier than we moved to Los Angeles, Bryan and I cut up all the family bills. I used my earnings and he used his,” she says.
“Since transferring to Los Angeles in March 2021, I’ve paid our housing prices, prices to look after our pets (together with their meals, medication, daycare, boarding, vet payments and pet insurance coverage) and Bryan’s medical insurance, whereas he paid the gardener and contributed to a few of the housekeeping prices.”
Based on Lindsay, the pair’s marital dwelling in LA was bought in February 2022 “with funds from [her] premarital separate property.”
She alleges that Abasolo “continues to reside in [her] home with out contributing any funds to the carrying prices.”
She says, “Bryan conflates most of the journeys that [they] took earlier than marriage with those who [they] took throughout marriage.” thebryanabasolo/Instagram
Lindsay claims Abasolo “fails to notice that the prices of many of those nonrecurring journeys have been backed by different sources.” Disney Normal Leisure Content material by way of Getty Pictures
Lindsay goes on to clarify their travels, saying their “journeys have been both sponsored or [they] every paid [their] personal airfare.”
“If I used to be paying, I didn’t fly Bryan enterprise or firstclass. He flew economic system. We typically cut up the lodge prices 50/50,” she pens, claiming that “Bryan conflates most of the journeys that [they] took earlier than marriage with those who [they] took throughout marriage.”
Lindsay claims Abasolo “fails to notice that the prices of many of those nonrecurring journeys have been backed by different sources.”
“Earlier than marriage, we went to Mexico twice — as soon as to go to our marriage ceremony venue and as soon as for our marriage ceremony ceremony,” she says.
“Earlier than marriage, we went to Mexico twice — as soon as to go to our marriage ceremony venue and as soon as for our marriage ceremony ceremony,” she says. GC Pictures
Lindsay notes they “took one sponsored journey to Mexico throughout marriage with one other couple from ‘The Bachelor,’” including that they “didn’t pay for this journey.” therachlindsay/Instagram
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Throughout their marriage, Lindsay explains that Abasolo took her to Santa Barbara “as soon as for [her] birthday,” a visit for which he paid.
“The NFL despatched me to Tennessee as soon as for a nonrecurring work journey and paid for our journey,” she says. “I went to New York typically for work. Bryan typically accompanied me.”
Lindsay goes on, “We went to Sarasota, Florida, twice for back-to-back weddings. We went to Washington, D.C., as soon as to attend the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner. I paid for this journey.”
Lindsay claims she and Abasolo “went to Colombia as soon as to attend [his] cousin’s marriage ceremony” and that they “every paid [their] personal method” and “cut up the lodge 50/50.”
“I went to New York typically for work. Bryan typically accompanied me,” she provides. thebryanabasolo/Instagram
Lindsay goes on, “We went to Washington, D.C., as soon as to attend the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner. I paid for this journey.” Instagram/@thebryanabasolo
Lindsay notes they “took one sponsored journey to Mexico throughout marriage with one other couple from ‘The Bachelor,’” including that they “didn’t pay for this journey.”
“He didn’t point out the journey to Aruba that we have been paid to take,” she writes.
Lindsay provides that the eating places Abasolo named in his declaration “will not be locations [they] frequented.”
“For instance, we went to Mom Wolf as soon as to rejoice a special day. Bryan paid for this meal,” she says.
Lindsay alleges that she and Abasolo “very not often went out collectively and didn’t even go on month-to-month dates” as a result of “Bryan typically labored late into the night time” and she or he “traveled rather a lot for work.”