Has Becca Kufrin and Garrett Yrigoyen’s final rose wilted? The season 14 Bachelorette couple have raised questions about their status in recent months.
Kufrin, 30, and Yrigoyen, 31, got engaged on the August 2018 finale of The Bachelorette, but their season wasn’t without controversy. As the show was airing, Yrigoyen made headlines for “liking” Instagram posts mocking Parkland shooting survivors, immigration and members of the LGBTQ community.
“I’m just trying to grow as a person, be a better person on a daily basis. She’s helped me through everything,” Yrigoyen told viewers at the live After the Final Rose special in 2018 after issuing a second apology. “We’ve been honest and open and transparent with one another since the beginning. And when that all came out, we attacked it, because I feel like when I was ‘liking’ things, it was going against what she stands for, and that made it really hard on us as a couple. So when we started talking about that, we got through that together, and we’re growing, we’re progressing and we’re moving forward.”
Fast-forward nearly two years, and Yrigoyen made headlines again for his controversial comments. After the San Diego resident showed his support for police amid the Black Lives Matter movement in June 2020, Kufrin and cohost Rachel Lindsay got emotional about racism on their “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast.
“Garrett is my fiancé and I love him and to his core, I believe that he is a good person. What he posted … I don’t align with and I don’t agree with,” she told Lindsay on June 9. “I don’t think he meant it in a malicious way, I do think it was tone deaf and it was the wrong time and message and sentiment. … I’m trying to get him to see the bigger picture.”
As their conversation progressed, the two women disagreed about Yrigoyen’s intentions. He showed his support for Kufrin via Instagram at the time.
“Love you Becca, it’s unrealistic to sit down and have individual conversations with millions,” he commented on Kufrin’s post about the podcast. “It’s OK to not get everything out you want to, everything you are doing and saying is OK, because it’s how you feel. Don’t let people take away how you truly feel. Continuing moving in a positive direction, growing, and being an awesome human. Those who know you, know you’re wonderful. If we can’t all accept each other and figure out a way to give love instead of hate, converge instead of divide, build instead of destruct, we will all be a much stronger unit!”
A week later, however, Kufrin kind of changed her tune, apologizing to Lindsay for trying to defend Yrigoyen. She also admitted that their relationship was up in the air.
“For those who are curious about my relationship with Garrett at this point, all I can say right now is I don’t know,” she said on June 16. “I can’t give anything more than that. It’s something that we are trying to work through and discuss and do work on at home at this time and that’s where the work will remain and that’s really the best can give you at this point.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Kufrin and Yrigoyen for comment. Scroll through to see the signs that their romance may be rocky:
Eagled-eye fans have noticed Kufrin has ditched her engagement ring on more than one occasion when she shares videos via her Instagram Stories.
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Kufrin admitted to Lindsay on the July 7 episode of “Bachelor Happy Hour” that she was struggling.
“It was easy sailing and now I look back just to a couple of months ago and I feel like I was at a totally different place in my life, like, a completely different mindset. With everything happening, I feel like I’m being tested. I’m learning a lot more about myself and my friends and my family and just having new conversations that I’ve never had before in my life. And so yeah, good days, bad days, thank god for [my dog] Minno because she keeps me sane. She is like my therapy pet,” she said. “You want to try to put on a brave face, but I think I’m learning that that’s not the case. This is not the year to do that and to pretend everything’s perfect. So just going through the motions. Thank god I have a great support group and friends and family but I’m learning a lot. 2020, it’s been a lot. But I look at it as, I would never want to not do 2020 for as many crazy things that have happened. So that’s kind of where I am.”
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Kufrin was noticeably missing from Yrigoyen’s friend’s wedding on July 18.
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Both Kufrin and Yrigoyen’s Instagram comments sections are flooded with questions about their current status. While the twosome have ignored the majority of the comments, Kufrin fired back at social media users who left negative remarks on a post of her holding her niece on July 19.
“So disappointed in you,” one follower wrote, to which Kufrin responded, “I’m SO sorry that by me spending an afternoon with my niece makes you upset.”
After a second fan wrote that she self-destructed in her relationship, the reality star replied, “OMG please write an advice book for all of us girls who apparently can’t handle ourselves in our own relationships. We definitely need a man to tell us how to act.”
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During an appearance on the “Everything Iconic With Danny Pellegrino” podcast in July, Lindsay played coy about Kufrin and Yrigoyen’s status, but wasn’t afraid to slam him.
“I think he’s a piece of s—t,” Lindsay told Danny Pellegrino. “I have said to her, ‘I will not f—k with him.’ He has doubled down on his beliefs. This isn’t the first time he’s had problematic behavior. When he was on the season, he had a history of ‘liking’ things that were racist, sexist, homophobic, calling the Parkland students child actors, it was a lot, so this is who this man is. And he’s a piece of s—t to me.”
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Fans discovered in August that Yrigoyen deleted his Instagram highlight of Kufrin from his profile.
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Speculation surfaced in early August that Kufrin was on set of season 16 of The Bachelorette in Palm Springs. Yrigoyen doesn't appear to be with her at the resort and the twosome didn't publicly acknowledge the two-year anniversary of the season 14 finale on August 6.
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On August 7, Yrigoyen shared snapshots from a road trip to Nevada after Kufrin was seemingly spotted at La Quinta Resort & Club in California. Meanwhile, the publicist reacted to speculation about their relationship on social media, calling reports that they'd split "interesting."
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Kufrin seemingly moved into a new home on August 20, sharing a photo of a box with packing peanuts and a video of her dog, Minno, in a different living room than the one she shares with Yrigoyen.
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While speaking to Us Weekly exclusively in August, Rachel Lindsay said she was "proud" of the way her podcast partner was handling the rumors about her relationship. "What I respect about Becca is she doesn't feed into rumors or negativity or anything that's swirling out there. She's just moving along. She's surrounding herself with people that she loves and she's doing her thing," the attorney explained. "I am proud of Becca for doing Becca. ... I will always respect Becca for making the best decisions for Becca."
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