{"id":2492581,"date":"2026-07-07T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2492581"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:44:09","slug":"rachel-lindsay-says-bryans-spousal-support-was-leech-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rachel-lindsay-says-bryans-spousal-support-was-leech-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Lindsay Says Bryan\u2019s Spousal Support Was Leech Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Bachelorette\u2019<\/em>s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/rachel-lindsay\/\"><strong>Rachel Lindsay<\/strong> <\/a>is clearing the air after a recent \u2014 and fiery \u2014 comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right. The moment I realized I had to pay temporary support, which is way more than whatever you \u2014 I mean, I\u2019ve settled,\u201d Lindsay, 41, said on the Monday, July 6, episode of<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/blog\/rachel-lindsay-divorce-leech-money\"> Radio Andy\u2019s SiriusXM\u2019s \u201cSmith Sisters Live,\u201d<\/a> explaining what she meant when she described the $13,000 spousal support payment she made to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/rachel-lindsay-and-bryan-abasolos-messy-divorce-everything-to-know\/\">ex-husband <strong>Bryan Abasolo<\/strong> <\/a>\u201ctemporary leech money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m done 1783460646 \u2014 but it was the first payment,\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019m so mad at the amount of money and I\u2019m like, \u2018Nobody\u2019s gonna see this. This is just between us.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to make it public unless I put it in the book. And so I thought, how can I say this where it\u2019s not too much but stings just enough. I was gonna change [the memo] every single time I sent it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/bryan-abasolo-reveals-offensive-text-from-rachel-lindsay-leech\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/bryan-abasolo-reveals-offensive-text-from-rachel-lindsay-leech\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Bryan Abasolo Says Rachel Lindsay Called Him &#8216;Leech&#8217; in Text Amid Divorce<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tBachelor Nation\u2019s Bryan Abasolo claimed his estranged wife, Rachel Lindsay, is not handling his spousal support in a respectful manner \u2014 and he has the receipts to prove it. Abasolo, 44, accused Lindsay, 37, of sending a \u201chighly offensive text\u201d in court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, August 1, after she sent him [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the payment was meant to serve as a way to support her ex in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/rachel-lindsay-and-bryan-abasolo-finalize-divorce-who-got-what\/\">wake of their 2024 divorce,<\/a>\u00a0Lindsay admitted she was upset about the amount of money she had to fork over \u2013 a total of $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a f***ing leech,\u201d she added. \u201cSo I was like, \u2018Temporary leech money.\u2019 And I sent it. Never did I think he would be dumb enough \u2026 to [post it online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay alleged that her ex \u201cwanted so badly for people\u201d to hate her for her description of the payment, noting that Abasolo even asked the court to sanction her another $5,000 as punishment for the note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, it made him look stupid,\u201d she added with a laugh, adding that her older sister now only refers to Abasolo as \u201cLeech.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud,\u201d Lindsay said elsewhere in the podcast. \u201cDumb not getting a prenup, but proud that I was able to pay it off in a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following their 2019 wedding in Cancun, Mexico, Lindsay and Abasolo announced their separation in December 2023. The following year, he filed for divorce. After reaching a settlement in September 2024, Lindsay reportedly had to pay Abasolo $500,000. In January, she told <em>People<\/em> that she had \u201cfinished paying\u201d the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The duo met while filming her season 13 of The Bachelorette in 2017. At the end of the season, she gave her final rose to Abasolo and he got down on one knee and proposed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bachelorette\u2019s Rachel Lindsay is clearing the air after a recent \u2014 and fiery \u2014 comment. \u201cThat\u2019s right. The moment I realized I had to pay temporary support, which is way more than whatever you \u2014 I mean, I\u2019ve settled,\u201d Lindsay, 41, said on the Monday, July 6, episode of Radio Andy\u2019s SiriusXM\u2019s \u201cSmith Sisters Live,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2492582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,22423,21738],"class_list":["post-2492581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-divorce","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Rachel-Lindsay-Says-Bryans-Spousal-Support-Was-Leech-Money.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492583,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492581\/revisions\/2492583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}