The Bachelor villain Shanae Ankney has broken her silence about her controversial behavior on Clayton Echard's season and all of the backlash she's received because of it.
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Shanae, whom Clayton eliminated during a two-on-one date against Genevieve Parisi on the latest Season 26 The Bachelor episode, took to Instagram on Tuesday to address all of her fans and haters out there.
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"Woah! What a wild ride it's been," Shanae captioned a video featuring the bachelorette ATVing with her father on Valentine's Day.
At one point in the video, Shanae took hold of a bunch of red roses and threw them all into the air.
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"Yesterday I had the opportunity to spend the day with my dad, my first love, and I'm so thankful for this special relationship in my life. As we were making donuts and hauling a$$, I took some time to reflect on this journey of a lifetime," she wrote.
Shanae first thanked all of her "homies at home" as well as her family for "supporting" her through The Bachelor journey.
"For those of you who don't know me, I wanted to share a few things. If you choose to judge me on the five hours of footage you've watched, I'm sad you didn't get a look into the real me," Shanae explained in her post.
"And if you were so quick to say you would never be 'so mean to someone' while simultaneously sending me hateful messages so ugly I wouldn't repost -- that doesn't make you better than me."
Shanae proudly pointed out, "My realness isn't for everyone."
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"Real never makes everyone happy," she continued. "I made a promise to myself a long time ago that my heart won't ever be guided by anyone else but me."
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Shanae then teased there "are big things in store" for her.
"And for now, I'm just going to eat shrimp and continue to be my authentic self," joked the 29-year-old recruiter from Sycamore, OH.
"Clayton, good luck to you and I hope you find what your heart is looking for. It was an honor to be part of your journey!"
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Shanae concluded her post with a red-rose emoji.
Shanae sparked drama when she told Clayton that Elizabeth Corrigan was "fake" and "two-faced" and then mocked Elizabeth's ADHD disorder.
Shanae also accused Elizabeth and Lyndsey Windham of bullying her and creating a "toxic" environment, before swearing at Genevieve and Sierra Jackson to keep her name out of their mouths and throwing a football team's gold trophy into a pond during a group-date afterparty.
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Clayton asked Shanae to apologize for rubbing everyone the wrong way, and so Shanae delivered a totally insincere -- although convincing -- apology to the cast.
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"I am really sorry and I hope we can get past this, because I really want to talk to you guys and confide in you and be there for one another. I am truly sorry," Shanae announced.
But then the blonde beauty bragged in a confessional, "I'm not sorry, hoes, you mean-ass b-tches! I need an Oscar award for that performance. Fake it until you make it! I never thought I could act before but I'm f-cking good."
Shanae was called "a Herpes outbreak" and "a puppeteer," and Clayton's bachelorettes agreed that they'd view Clayton in a different light if he chose to keep Shanae over Genevieve.
"Shanae likes to push people to the limit and be cute, calm, and collected when it's all so phony and calculated," Mara Agreat said in a confessional. "She's a roller coaster, she's dramatic, she's erratic, she's unnecessary. She's not wife material, she sucks."
Clayton ultimately decided to eliminate Shanae in Niagara Falls, Canada, during Monday night's The Bachelor episode, and she claimed she was totally shocked and taken aback by her ouster.
Clayton has said he would've sent Shanae home earlier had he known more about her antics and rudeness, but Lyndsey called him out for lying about the extent of knowledge he really had.
Clayton also recently suggested, totally under the radar, that producers made him give Shanae roses for the sake of drama and entertainment value, which "killed" his credibility.
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