Clearing the air.

Bachelor Nation got to meet Casey, one of the men of “The Bachelorette” Season 22, earlier this year. Casey is a mechanical engineer from Nashville, Tennessee, with a love for all things science, math, and 3D printing. 

The Bachelor Nation cast member loves to keep fans updated with his life online and just went on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast to share more about his experience on the show. 

Recently, news circulated online claiming that Taylor Frankie Paul stormed off during one of the dates while filming. Now, Casey is getting candid while addressing those claims directly. 

He said, “I’ll deny and tease a little bit. So, I don’t know where that came from. We were hanging out at an undisclosed place at an undisclosed time, and she brought up what happened. And went into it in very intensive detail, with the incident with her kid. And so, when that video came out, she had already very fully described it to me. Like, I had a mental image of that same scene. So, it’s not something she shied away from. And the whole entire time on the show, she is like — because she was asking us these same questions — she’s like, she would ask the tough questions and needed to know these. And as someone that’s here with intentionality and someone that’s like I’m making a lifetime decision, you should know these things and should ask these questions.”

Casey went on, clarifying how Taylor reacted when discussing the incident with him. 

“She was the one that brought it up originally,” he revealed, “And when she did, it took me a little while to process it. So, she brought that up and we were having a really good night at that time. And it just wasn’t the time or the place and I didn’t really know how I was feeling. I brought it up the next time and she was super cool, calm, and collected about it. Like there was no storming off, there was no anger. There was sadness and it’s like, the only thing that I can imagine being worse than the person on the receiving end of that, is the person that knows they did that and has to live with that for the rest of their lives. If it was me, I would be beating myself up over that every day and it would make it so hard not to go back to that and not to lose control again because you’re just like on edge all the time.”

Casey then brought up the subject with Taylor again to discuss further and expressed his gratitude for that opportunity.  

He shared, “I brought it up and explained like, ‘Hey, this is why I ended my relationship. This is kind of a sore subject for me. This is probably something that is close to me.’ And she was like, ‘Yeah. It was the worst day of my life and I did something about it. I gave up drinking after that.’ And to me, that was enough. I didn’t need some long sob story about what happened. It was like, she took an actionable change about what happened and showed intention and has followed through on that and was accountable for it. That meant the world. I thought it was a really powerful moment between us two and I’m really glad we got the opportunity to sit down one-on-one and talk about it like that. Because if it was me reading a news article and coming up with my own opinions on what happened with limited information and not being able to talk to her in a vulnerable state, who knows what I would’ve thought.”

Casey also added, “I think that was one of the good things about coming into this experience kind of blind was, I did as little research as I could on anything because I felt like it would be dis-ingenuine for me to do all my homework on Taylor. It’s not how you meet someone in the wild… With that being said, I do think there is a place to do a little bit of background research on people just to know where y’all relate. Especially with such limited time that we have in this world, in the ‘Bachelor’ world.”

Listen to the rest of Casey’s interview in the full episode of “Bachelor Happy Hour” below, and tune in for more conversations with Taylor’s men!