The Bachelorette alum Devin Strader rang in 2025 with a diss to his ex-fiancee Jenn Tran.
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Another sign reportedly read, "New Year, Same S—."
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Jenn had flipped the script and proposed marriage to Devin at the Final Rose Ceremony of The Bachelorette's 21st season that filmed in May 2024.
After a tumultuous two months -- in which Jenn claimed Devin never prioritized her and slowly ghosted her -- Devin broke up with Jenn in a brief phone call in early August.
On The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose special in early September, Jenn announced that Devin's behavior before and after their split was devastating, especially when he had followed The Bachelor alum Maria Georgas and allegedly sent multiple women DMs on Instagram.
To make matters worse, Devin released personal text messages with Jenn alongside a 13-minute, tell-all video about his "truth" and "false narratives" about him on September 10, a week after The Bachelorette finale aired on ABC.
Jenn therefore admitted to former The Bachelor star Nick Viall that she's going to have "trust issues" when dating men in the future after what Devin had done to her.
"I'm in a place where I think I'm going to have a little bit of trust issues for a while, just to be transparent here," Jenn confessed on a September episode of "The Viall Files" podcast.
Jenn, who appeared to soft launch her romance with her Dancing with the Stars Season 33 partner Sasha Farber in December 2024, suggested she may struggle to let her walls down in her next relationship.
"The texts being released [by Devin] and me not really knowing who this person was, it's like, I need some time to kind of get over that and trust people again," Jenn explained at the time.
"That was a serious invasion of my privacy, and so that's hard to get over."
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During a separate appearance on the "Off the Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe" podcast, Jenn said she felt a little discouraged and deflated about the idea of finding love again after her breakup with Devin.
"I mean, it's not like I'll never date again. It's not like I'm writing off all men in history and what not," Jenn clarified.
"But right now, my heart is just not open. I am in a place where I am still processing this all, and up until a month ago, I was imagining a life with Devin and kids with Devin."
Jenn insisted she needed "time" to heal from her emotional wounds.
"I need time to just move on from the relationship, and when that time comes -- I don't know when that will be -- but I hope my heart will be open for somebody else," Jenn explained.
Jenn noted how Devin is "not the type of person" she wants to spend the rest of her life with.
"Everything truly happens for a reason and it was a blessing in disguise when it happened," The Bachelorette alum continued.
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The Bachelorette star said she planned to focus on Dancing with the Stars' 33rd season, and her preference would be to meet a man organically at some point down the road.
"I would love to meet somebody in a library or at a grocery store, and I think I am all set with online dating," Jenn said, adding how she also intended to pay attention to red flags.
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On After the Final Rose, Devin didn't explain why exactly he had fallen out of love with Jenn and decided to dump her, except for saying that he "fell short" of her expectations for him in the real world.
"I found myself not being able to live up to the things that you need and deserve," Devin acknowledged during the finale broadcast.
Devin said he watched Jenn grow leaps and bounds on the show, only to contribute to her "recession" because she had been willing to compromise herself and make sacrifices to save their relationship.
Devin and Jenn's reunion on live television post-split left most The Bachelorette viewers furious and disgusted by Devin's actions and casual attitude towards his heartbroken ex-fiancee.
Devin therefore posted his lengthy Instagram video defending himself on September 10, and there had to have been dozens of text messages that he leaked of his conversations with Jenn from May through August.
Devin claimed that despite Jenn's side of the story, he had been very "present" during their relationship and never ghosted Jenn or refused to attend couples counseling.
Devin issued a couple of apologies in his video, such as following Maria on Instagram, but he also said that Jenn should be held accountable for her mistakes and faults in the relationship as well because no one is perfect.
Jenn, for her part, reacted on "The Viall Files" and seemed outraged about Devin's public rant.
Sasha seemed to help Jenn heal and move past her split from Devin while they competed on Dancing with the Stars, but as rumors swirled about the status of Jenn and Sasha's relationship, Devin took opportunities to slam Sasha on social media.
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