The Bachelorette alum Rachel Lindsay is offering new The Bachelor star Grant Ellis some sage advice -- don't get married without a prenup!

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Grant was just announced as The Bachelor star for Season 29 airing in early 2025, which was apparently an easy and quick decision for producers.

Fans are hoping Grant will fall in love and get engaged, but Rachel, who is currently embroiled in nasty divorce proceedings with her The Bachelorette Season 13 winner Bryan Abasolo, apparently wants Grant to proceed with caution.

Rachel, speaking from personal experience, told TMZ that the most important thing Grant can do is protect himself financially if he pops the question to his The Bachelor winner.

Rachel, who met Bryan on The Bachelorette in 2017 and got married in 2019, was ordered on July 10 to pay her estranged husband $13,257 per month in spousal support until further notice as well as an additional $20,000 for legal fees and other expenses.

(Rachel had initially offered the chiropractor $9,000 per month in court, claiming that Bryan's initial request of $16,275 far exceeded his need).

But Bryan, who moved out of The Bachelorette couple's shared home after the ruling, is still asking for more money from Rachel, and he recently exposed a text message from his estranged wife suggesting he's a "leech."

After more than four years of marriage, Bryan filed for divorce from Rachel on January 2, citing irreconcilable differences, and he listed December 31, 2023 as their date of separation.

During a June 2024 appearance on the "Hidden Gems with Natasha Parker" podcast, Rachel revealed that she had "wanted" a prenuptial agreement before marrying Bryan, but the pair couldn't come to an agreement.

"The reason I didn't [get one] is because the place I'm in now, you know, financially or however you want to define it, is totally different than when I got married," Rachel explained.

"We were more level and I wasn't living in California."

At the time Bryan and Rachel got married in August 2019, Rachel was an attorney from Texas and Bryan was working as a chiropractor in Miami, FL.

Rachel explained that when she and Bryan tied the knot, it was simply "a different time" in her life.

"We weren't on the same page with prenups. I didn't want it to be a bigger issue, so we didn't have one," Rachel admitted.

"Hindsight is 20/20, I would have done it [looking back now]. I always wanted to do it, but, again, we weren't on the same page when it came to that."

Bryan in a May court filing that he was only bringing in $16,000 of income per year.

Rachel had responded by saying she wouldn't be able to "pay my own counsel" if she owed Bryan that much money. She also alleged Bryan was misrepresenting his income and was capable of generating income on his own and supporting himself going forward.

Rachel had also reportedly declared that Bryan's supposed annual income was "less than he would [earn] if he worked at McDonalds," based on the minimum wage in Los Angeles, CA.

Rachel had also claimed that she was already paying for "90 percent" of Bryan's expenses as well as the costs of owning their North Hollywood house.

Rachel and Bryan will have their next scheduled court proceeding on September 23 in Los Angeles, according to Entertainment Tonight.

Bryan shared some personal details about his divorce from The Bachelorette's Season 13 star in an interview with men's divorce coach Rene Garcia posted on YouTube on July 20.

Bryan admitted he and Rachel had an "unhealthy communication pattern" and they "didn't spend enough time" with each other.

Bryan admitted he had been stuck "in a weird friend-zone situation for a while" and the pair started "to live different lives." Bryan said they also had interests and priorities that didn't align.

Rachel had claimed she was shocked by Bryan's divorce filing, but he insisted that she definitely saw it coming.

"[Rachel] never showed any interest in my business," Bryan alleged, adding how The Bachelorette alum's "jet-setting career often took her away from our martial residence" while he stayed home.

Bryan further alleged that Rachel didn't want him to be involved in her Hollywood lifestyle and would go so far as to "disinvite [him] to parties or events" and show up with friends instead.

During a December 2023 appearance on "The Viall Files" podcast, Rachel revealed to Nick Viall that she and Bryan had been "working on having a kid" together, although they were living "totally different lives" and didn't "work well together."

Bryan told Rene that it was "tough" and "hard" to watch Rachel struggle with fertility issues when they were trying so hard to expand their family.

"It felt terrible. Just watching her sadness, it broke my heart," Bryan admitted. "It was like I was failing expectations on all fronts."

Bryan shared how he really wanted children but "other things were made a priority" in their relationship, which put pressure on them both.

After Bryan and Rachel's wedding, Rachel briefly moved to Miami to be with Bryan. Rachel then relocated to California for a reporting job at Extra, resulting in the pair trying to make a long-distance marriage work.

Bryan, apparently believing he and Rachel were a team, subsequently moved from Florida to Los Angeles, CA, for the sake of Rachel's entertainment career, which now includes multiple podcasts and two books. (Rachel no longer works for Extra).

"I placed my career as a chiropractor on hold to move twice for Rachel's career. These moves were detrimental to my chiropractic business, while Rachel's income and success as a media personality skyrocketed," Bryan wrote in his early May court filing, according to Us Weekly.

Bryan also wrote, "Maintaining our standard of living is not financially feasible at this time... [And she is] refusing to give me access to any of our community property funds to pay my divorce lawyer, my forensic accountant, or any of my personal expenses."

Although Rachel and Bryan are parting ways, Rachel said she still considers her time on The Bachelorette to be a success.

"It is a happy ending in the sense that I'm doing what's best for me, and with divorce -- even if it's mutual -- there's a bit of a selfish decision in it, but I'm doing what's best for me and that's a happy ending," Rachel noted on Natasha's podcast.

"Right now as I'm going through it. No, it's not happy, it's messy -- unnecessarily messy -- but when I get through it I'm going to have to rebuild and I'm going to have to restructure, but it's a happy ending because it's what I want."



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