Rachel Lindsay is feeling better than ever after settling her divorce from ex-husband Bryan Abasolo.
“I love that I feel empowered to talk about this, and I feel great,” Lindsay, 41, said on the Thursday, April 23, episode of the “Awf the Record” podcast. “I had a little Dr. Truesdale work [done] to feel even better. Shout out to Dr. Truesdale. He’s the best, the best.”
While Lindsay did not reveal what procedures she underwent, Carl Truesdale is a noted facial plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, California.
Truesdale previously shared via his Instagram that Lindsay had a skin pinch and fat transfer.
Lindsay met Abasolo, 46, who was the recipient of her final rose during season 13 of The Bachelorette, which aired in 2017. They tied the knot in August 2019 and were married for four years before separating in 2023. Their divorce was finalized in January 2025.
“We were fundamentally different when it came to ambition,” Lindsay said on Thursday’s episode, detailing what led to her breakup. “I can think of conversations I was having with my cousin where I was complaining about the lack of ambition and my frustration for how hard I was working.”
Lindsay worked as an attorney both before and after going on The Bachelorette. She has since found a new career as a podcaster and an author. Abasolo, for his part, has continued working as a chiropractor.
“[I was working] as a lawyer during the week and on the weekends … flying out to Bristol, Connecticut, doing radio for ESPN, a five-hour radio show,” she recalled. “I was hustling even harder, and I’d come home and there you were.”
Lindsay continued, “I realized we were fundamentally different before marriage, but there are societal pressures … that led me to the sense of urgency that I had to get [married].”
In Lindsay and Abasolo’s divorce decree, the former Bachelorette was ordered to pay her now-ex $13,257 in monthly temporary alimony, $15,000 for his attorney’s fees and $5,000 for forensic expert expenses. Lindsay, who did not sign a prenup before her wedding, completed her payments in January.
“I don’t think he won,” Lindsay stated to the “Awf the Record” hosts. “There was a time when my anger was attached to what I was losing financially. I was thinking, ‘Yeah, he’s winning.’ It was a loss and it definitely hurt. I worked very hard for those things, you know, for the money that I made, but I’m so rich in community.”
She continued, “I’m so rich in [that] I feel more myself than ever, like, I know who I am. I’ve done the work on myself. These are things he cannot take away from me.”
