Rachel Lindsay is slamming her ex-husband, Bryan Abasolo, for allegedly exaggerating their “glamorous” lifestyle in her January divorce filing.
In Lindsay’s affidavit, obtained exclusively by Page Six on Thursday, the former “Bachelorette” star says she “does not consent” to Abasolo’s request for spousal support and attorney fees.
“I’m not rich with money, like he thinks,” Lindsay, 39, wrote. “And I certainly can’t pay his lawyer $75,000 to litigate our divorce without complications. If I did, I wouldn’t have enough money left to pay my own lawyer.
The former attorney claims she has “approximately $88,500 in non-retirement funds” and that her “financial situation has changed over the past several years.”
Lindsay currently co-hosts the “Higher Learning” podcast with Van Lathan.
“I’ve done sporadic social media deals, but my main source of income since 2023 has come from my work with Spotify,” she explains.
The former reality star goes on to say that the estranged couple’s “married standard of living (‘MSOL’) was nowhere near as glamorous as Bryan portrays it,” alleging that the two “rarely saw each other or even lived together during (their) brief marriage.”
According to Lindsay, she and Abasolo — a 44-year-old chiropractor who also “hosts podcasts and receives income from social media” — had a wedding ceremony in Cancun in August 2019.
“However, we got married legally on October 4, 2019,” she says.
They agree that their separation date is December 31, 2023.
Abasolo, who met Lindsay while competing on “The Bachelorette” in 2017, filed for divorce on Jan. 2.
“At all times, Bryan and I had separate bank accounts (checking and savings), credit cards, retirement accounts, and brokerage accounts. We had no joint accounts during our marriage,” she wrote, having previously revealed that they did not sign a prenuptial agreement.
“From October 2019 to March 2021, before moving to Los Angeles, Bryan and I shared all household expenses. I used my income and he used his,” she says.
“Since we moved to Los Angeles in March 2021, I have paid for our housing costs, our pet care costs (including food, medication, daycare, boarding, vet bills, and pet insurance), and Bryan’s health insurance, while he has paid the gardener and contributed to some housekeeping costs.”
According to Lindsay, the couple’s marital home in Los Angeles was purchased in February 2022 “with funds from[their]separate property prior to the marriage.”
She alleges that Abasolo “continues to reside in (his) home without contributing financially to the carrying costs.”
Lindsay goes on to explain their trips, saying that their “trips were either sponsored or they each paid for their own plane ticket.”
“If I was paying, I wasn’t flying business or first class with Bryan. He flew economy class. We usually split hotel costs 50/50,” she writes, claiming that “Bryan confuses many of the trips they took before the wedding with those they took during the marriage.”
Lindsay claims that Abasolo “fails to point out that the costs of many of these non-recurring trips were subsidized from other sources.”
“Before the wedding, we went to Mexico twice: once to visit our wedding venue and once for our wedding ceremony,” she says.
During their marriage, Lindsay explains that Abasolo took her to Santa Barbara “once for (her) birthday,” a trip for which he paid.
“The NFL once sent me to Tennessee for a one-time work trip and paid for our trip,” she said. “I was going to New York a lot for work. Bryan would come with me sometimes.
Lindsay continues: “We have been to Sarasota, Florida twice for back-to-back weddings. We went to Washington, DC, once to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I paid for this trip. »
Lindsay claims that she and Abasolo “once went to Colombia to attend (her) cousin’s wedding” and that they “each paid for (their) own trip” and “split the hotel 50/50.”
Lindsay notes that they “took a sponsored trip to Mexico during their marriage to another couple from The Bachelor,” adding that they “did not pay for that trip.”
“He didn’t mention the trip to Aruba that we were paid for,” she wrote.
Lindsay adds that the restaurants Abasolo cited in his statement “are not places (they) frequent.”
“For example, we once went to Mother Wolf to celebrate a special occasion. Bryan paid for that meal,” she says.
Lindsay claims that she and Abasolo “very rarely dated and didn’t even have monthly dates” because “Bryan often worked late into the night” and she “traveled a lot for work.”
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