Bachelorette Jenn Tran Speaks Out After Split from Devin Strader: 'He Regretted Getting Engaged'

Jenn Tran opens up about her split from Devin Strader.

On The Bachelor season 21 finale On Tuesday, September 3, Jenn and Devin got engaged in Hawaii, but the couple later revealed they had broken up. Jenn opened up about what happened in their relationship on the After the Final Rose special, revealing that Devin’s feelings changed almost immediately.

“As soon as we left Hawaii, things were just different,” she told host Jesse Palmer. “I felt like he was going back on all the promises he made to me – he wanted us to move somewhere together, he wanted to plan this future and he wanted to see each other all the time.”

Jenn explained that she stopped receiving calls and texts from Devin and became “confused.” Then one night her then fiance called her.

“He called me and basically broke off the engagement,” she said. “[He said] he didn’t love me anymore, he felt the same and felt like something was disturbed from the other thing he proposed. He regretted getting engaged,”

From left: Devin Strader and Jenn Tran.

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Trying to understand the pressures that being engaged on a reality show can bring, Jenn said she offered to work things out with Devin.

“[I said] ‘Let’s just be together. We don’t have to be engaged — I want a life with you, I don’t need a ring,'” she recalled telling him. “He was checked out. It was no longer what he wanted. And I fought for the relationship, trying to do everything I could to empathize with him and try to make things work. He didn’t want to go to couples counseling. He didn’t want to fight for the relationship anymore.”

After that call, which Jenn said lasted 15 minutes, she claimed Devin didn’t return her call.

“We were engaged and in love a lot, and now you ignore my message as if I mean nothing to you,” she said.

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As fans remember, Jenn stayed with her three suitors, Devin, Marcus and Jonathan for the fantasy suites. At the time, she stated that her feelings for Devin were strong, saying that being with him “just feels good” and that he “makes me feel loved and just supported.”

“I want to be in love with Devin and I think I’m very close to that,” the medical assistant student added to the cameras.

Marcus, on the other hand, went on a date night admitting, “I’m not that in love yet.”

“You deserve someone who is confident in you,” said Marcus Jenn. “I don’t know if I’m putting pressure on myself because of how fast this process is or how fast it’s coming to an end, but it’s been hard for me to get to the point where I feel comfortable saying I’m in love.”

From left: Jenn Tran with Marcus.

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Jenn, however, had to be honest about her feelings, which were stronger than Marcus’ during the night out. She told him, “I would be lying if I didn’t tell you that I’m in love with you.”

She and Jonathan also seemed to be in a good place to go to the fancy suites, dropping the “L” word as well.

From left: Jenn Tran with Jonathon.

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“I felt like I could spend the rest of my life with that guy,” Jenn said of the creative director.

“I have no doubt that I can wake up tomorrow and say, ‘Hey, this is my person. I’m so in love,’” he then said to the cameras.

In the end, Jonathan was sent home, leaving Marcus and Devin to compete for the final rose, which, as fans now know, went to Devin.

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Jenn previously spoke to PEOPLE about her time on the dating show — where she was leading lady with 25 suitors competing for a proposal at the end of the season. Debating whether to tune in, Jenn quickly responded.

“Are you kidding me? I’m not going to watch the best two months of my life? Of course I am!” she said in the July issue. “I’m so excited for the premiere. I feel like it’s so weird that this crazy journey happened and I’m so excited to look back on it.”

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Jenn Tran.

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After the Men Tell All special, in which Jenn took the opportunity to stand up for herself against Sam M. after she felt he disrespected her during their dates, she told PEOPLE that she learned a lot from the experience and even teased how her going before the final.

“I grew so much during the trip that I am a different person now than I was during it,” she explained. “I have a new sense of self-confidence and empowerment, so looking back, there were definitely certain situations with [the guys] which really enlightened me afterwards and I was like, ‘Oh, now I can pinpoint exactly what’s wrong here and why I felt that way or why I didn’t stand up for myself.'”

“I don’t regret the whole trip,” she added later. “I think everything played out exactly the way it was supposed to play out and I’m very happy about that. By the way, all the mistakes I made and things like that, I own that and I’m happy to learn from them, so I don’t regret anything.”

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