Jenn Tran and Devin Strader’s messy breakup after ‘The Bachelorette’ was only the beginning of their drama. Here’s a complete timeline.

In an Instagram Story that has since been deleted, Jenn reportedly expressed her gratitude for her fans’ support but said that she doesn’t condone cyberbullying.

“There is no need to rub salt in anyone’s wound and truly supporting me you will understand that I lead with love and empathy,” she wrote.

“I do not believe in spreading negative energy,” she added.
“People can be held accountable for their own actions in their lives without cyberbullying. The universe will work it all out.”

Jenn, who has previously spoken about receiving rude comments after she was announced as the latest Bachelorette, said that she’s “going to be okay but spreading hate or direct harm to someone else does not help my healing journey.”

In an episode of “The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast,” Iaconetti, a former “Bachelor” and “Bachelor in Paradise” contestant and Bachelor Nation staple, said that she managed to last most of season 21 without any spoilers about how Jenn’s journey would play out. That is, until, a friend mentioned that Devin messaged her before the finale.

“Within the past week, I heard from a really good friend who said that Devin had slid into her DMs,” she said. “And that sort of spoiled things for me a little bit. I didn’t know exactly how it was going to end, but I knew that they weren’t together.”

When former Bachelor Higgins asked if this friend is from the show, Iaconetti said no, “which makes it worse.”

Iaconetti said that her friend was a fan of the show and followed Devin online because she liked his personality.

“Then, he DM’d her,” she said.

In a lenghty video shared on TikTok, Maria said that the finale was “hard to watch” as a former contestant and as a viewer. She also said that some of the conversations between Jenn and Devin should have happened off-camera.

“I am constantly trying to move past a lot of things that I’ve done in this franchise,” she said. “I’m over coming to defense for my character.”

Maria added that she respected Jenn for speaking up in the finale, but hearing her name mentioned without additional context “leads people to believe a whole different narrative.”

Maria confirmed that Devin had followed her on Instagram, but said she wasn’t aware at the time because she doesn’t monitor her followers.

“I had no clue about that until people brought it to my attention,” she said. “And by that time, when I found out, he had unfollowed. Let me clear the air on something: I have never met Devin before.”

In an interview published with People the following day, Jenn explained why she mentioned Maria on the finale.

“I knew it was going to make this big splash, but for me it was important to highlight the ways in which Devin disrespected me,” she said. “It has nothing to do with Maria. I know that nothing happened.”

“All I’m looking to do here is tell my side, take accountability, and apologize for some of the things that I wasn’t able to say at AFR,” Devin said in the 13-minute video.

“We both had mistakes along the way, but the love that Jenn and I had, and the love especially that I had for Jenn, is not something that I’m attempting to lie about,” he said.

Devin said that navigating their relationship in the real world after the show ended “was an uphill battle” and he felt like he “wasn’t good enough, no matter how much effort I would put in.”

“It continued to take an emotional toll on me,” he said. “At that point, I really did have to make just a decision based on my own happiness because, again, at the end of the day, what’s best for me is what’s best for me.”

Devin also shared supposed text messages between him and Jenn, which were sent during their relationship and after the breakup.

“By no means am I looking to denounce Jenn in any way,” he said. “By no means am I looking to come at her in any way or say anything negative about her. All I’m trying to do here is show this was a two-way relationship, and I think we could both be held accountable.”

Devin’s video was met with backlash, specifically for sharing their private text messages, some of which were intimate ones. According to E! News, he then deleted and reuploaded the video with redacted messages. However, that video has also been deleted from his Instagram profile.

Devin then reportedly shared a since-deleted Instagram Story apologizing for sharing sensitive messages and asking for forgiveness.

“I deeply am so sorry for showing sensitive information from the bottom of my heart,” he reportedly wrote. “That was not my intention. My only intention is to show the relationship from my perspective.”

“I gain nothing from that text conversation being shown. I promise you that was a mistake,” he said, adding, “I honestly missed this one and fucked up.”

In a video posted on YouTube, Reality Steve said that he was tipped off about Devin’s past via Instagram. The blogger said that about 12 days before the final rose ceremony, someone messaged him and said their friend had a restraining order against Devin.

This was corroborated by Entertainment Weekly, which reported that Devin’s unnamed ex successfully petitioned for a restraining order against him in March 2017. In the restraining order petition, the ex reportedly accused Devin of abuse.

According to documents obtained by EW, the ex accused Devin, who lived two doors down, of burglarizing her house after their breakup. EW reported that Devin was arrested on burglary charges and pleaded guilty.

The revelation reverberated through Bachelor Nation, with some upset that Devin’s criminal history had slipped through the cracks of the show’s casting department.

“How did this man get past the casting background checks? Any man with a restraining order and an arrest on his history shouldn’t be allowed to set foot in the mansion,” Suzana Somers, who runs the popular Instagram account @bachelordata account, said in a post about Devin’s arrest.

A source close to production told EW: “We take the safety of our contestants very seriously and make every effort to conduct thorough diligence. As exhaustive as our vetting process is, this protective order did not surface in our searches.”