It was an emotional moment unlike any in
The Bachelor franchise’s history. There has always been plenty of crying on camera, but those impassioned occasions were mainly due to romantic entanglements, not racial injustice. Then, on season 16 of
The Bachelorette, viewers witnessed Tayshia Adams break down in tears while discussing the Black Lives Matter movement.
As the reality series began filming in the summer of 2020, protests were taking place worldwide following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. Adams, the biracial star of the franchise’s latest season, remembers feeling like she and the contestants were “in such a bubble” during production. “I didn’t have time to process anything that was going on,” remembers the 30-year-old, whose father is Black and mother is Mexican. Still, she felt compelled to broach the subject with her suitors while cameras rolled.
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