Jenn Tran’s historic ‘Bachelorette’ engagement was overshadowed by a heartbreaking live finale breakup. Fans are calling it ‘cruel’ and ‘disgusting.’

• Jenn Tran got another shot at love on season 21 of “The Bachelorette.”
• Her happy ending was derailed when she revealed in the live finale that she and her winner, Devin, broke up.
• Fans criticized the show’s producers for forcing Jenn to watch her historic proposal to him while sobbing onstage.

Before season 21 of “ on Instagram, and went clubbing with fellow contestant Jeremy.

Devin, for his part, was lightly apologetic and didn’t deny Jenn’s claims. “Obviously, I failed you, and there’s nothing I can say other than that,” he said when he was brought onstage to face his ex-fiancée. “Everything I felt for you was real.”

Forcing Jenn and Devin to rewatch their proposal scene in front of a live audience angered fans

It was only after the show’s star couple had officially imploded onstage that the show decided it was time to show the footage of their historic, happy moment from the distant past.

After apologizing on behalf of the show and fans that her journey didn’t conclude with the happy ending she’d hoped for, Palmer praised Jenn for the strength she showed in her proposal, adding that no one could take that historic moment away from her.

“I know you haven’t seen it yet. What do you think? Should we all watch it together?” Palmer asked.

“Do I have a choice?” Jenn replied through sobs.

Fans and fellow members of Bachelor Nation were vocal in their disappointment in ABC’s treatment of its star during the finale, with many criticizing the decision to force Jenn to rewatch the proposal live onstage while sitting next to her ex-fiancé.

“Jenn should have gotten up in the middle of proposal showing and gave everyone the peace sign. Walk out of that studio and never turned back,” former Bachelor Ben Higgins wrote on X. “Absolutely cruel and unnecessary to make her watch that back. Cannot believe it.”

“im not rocking with the fact that abc hyped up the first asian american bachelorette, sharing she’s making history and breaking barrier, just to straight up humiliate her like this in the end,” one fan with the username @realitytvyapper wrote on X.

The showing was particularly dismaying given Jenn’s status as the first Asian-American Bachelorette. The franchise has a complicated history with race, one that it’s only begun to take steps to evolve on after featuring its first handful of leads of color. Jenn’s unhappy ending, then, also adds to the franchise’s uncomfortable track record in failing to protect its nonwhite leads (see: the Matt James / Rachael Kirkconnell controversy, Rachel Lindsay’s season).

“Tonight is extra frustrating bc the head producers JUST did a big interview with the LA Times about how they’re committed ot protecting their leads of colour and owning up to past failures. They did not protect Jenn tonight or during casting,” @bach_rants wrote on X.

Jenn, for her part, left the finale with her head held as high as she could muster.

“I do not regret proposing to that man on there,” she said, referencing the Devin who appeared onscreen during their proposal. “That man doesn’t exist anymore, and the truth of the matter is, I’m still that same woman I am.”

At least she’ll be keeping busy in the near future with “Dancing With the Stars.“