Rachael KirkConnell ‘still in total shock’ 2 weeks after watching Matt James’ Breakup — Notice about a plane

Rachael KirkConnell does not hold back as she cleans the air on her split from Matt James.

Almost two weeks after James, 33, announced the couple’s collapse after four years together in a cryptic Instagram post, KirkConnell opened 28, about how she manages to do with the split on Call her father. She told host Alex Cooper that she was on a flight when she found out the news.

“Literally the plane starts and I see his post, and that’s it,” KirkConnell told Cooper. “I don’t have any service or anything in the next 12 hours, so I freaking because you know have just been broken up with, and now a few hours later, it’s for the whole world to see and i i am still trying to treat it.

“I’m still in total shock,” she confessed. “I think that’s why I didn’t say anything. Still haven’t made a statement or anything because I treat this, just like everyone else is.”

Also during the podcast, KirkConnell shared that before the collapse thought they were “on the same side, private and public.”

“We talked about rings, he told me a few months ago to start saving some things and choosing things,” she said.

KirkConnell’s performance on the podcast came a few hours after TMZ Released footage of her first public excursion since the split. When she answered questions from Lax before boarding a flight, she told the sales that she “hung in there,” before she elaborated on the collapse.

“Things will start coming out and I will talk about it when I am ready, but so far I just protect my peace,” she said, before confirming that there was “no” adultery involved in the split – and that There is “no” chance that they would come back together.

“No. Yes, we’re out,” KirkConnell confirmed.

Before talking out Call her fatherKirkConnell suggested that the collapse message came as a surprise to her while interacting with some comments on a sweet tribute to James ’33. Birthday on Instagram.

In addition to liking supportive fan comments, the reality star also liked a comment that speculated that she was not ready for the message to be published.

“The more I think about it, the more I think he completely blinded her with this,” the tab wrote. “Give her a little grace and let her answer her own time.”

James and KirkConnell dated four years before their shocking collapse. They left his season of The Bachelor As a couple in 2020, but as photos of her participate in an Antebellum Plantation-themed party appeared online, the controversy arose and the couple went separate ways.

They resumed their relationship weeks later and apparently had been on the brink of a potential commitment.

Said KirkConnell while he was on Call her father In the midst of their split, James told her, “There were just qualities to me that he cares about having in a wife. Like at the end of the day there are things that we are not compatible with. And all the responsibility and that Saying sorry and all that was really the most important thing.

In February 2024, James told people that the couple was in line with their plans to marry. “We wouldn’t be together if it wasn’t the same goal,” he said. “I’m definitely excited about what the future looks like with us.”

He also said that when it was time to suggest it would “be something special because Rachael is very special.”

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James’ friend Tj Holmes also revealed on a recent Episode of Amy & Tj Podcast That he and his girlfriend Amy Robach had private conversations about marriage that were in the cards for the former couple.

“(We are) to go a nice line here because there are obviously some things that we are interested in behind the scenes and from a personal point of view with Matt over the years now,” he shared. “So I want to make sure we respect that relationship. But I can say what he is in public is also what he said privately. (I have) has spoken lots with him about marriage and future and rachael and where they were going to what they should be.