Trouble seems to be brewing, and this time it’s between Brooke Blurton and the media. The Bachelorette Australia star recently took to her Instagram story to call out Pedestrian and the media in general for their coverage of her “feud” with Abbie Chatfield.
Before we get into it, we recommend you read our breakdown of Brooke and Abbie’s friendship here.
Okay, now that you’re up to speed, let’s dive in. A few days ago, one of Brooke’s thousands of followers asked her whether she’s still friends with Abbie, to which the reality star offered a straight-to-the-point response.
“Unfortunately, no, that one stung for a while,” she replied. “I had a lot of respect for Abbie, still do, but as a friend, was really hurt by how she neglected our friendship.
“Still value what she does in the media/social/advocacy work, though I can compartmentalise and say that once a friend hurts me, I can’t always look past that.”
Brooke then said that Abbie didn’t open the “line up for communication” and decided to “avoid anything to do with me”.
“So I had accepted that as an answer to close that chapter of our friendship,” she continued.
“Think she’s still great if you connect and resonate with her. Though not my jam.”
Shortly after she answered the question, Pedestrian published a story titled, “Brooke Blurton Confirmed She’s No Longer Mates W/Abbie In Brutal IG Story”.
The article seemed to have hit a nerve, because Brooke once again took to Instagram to slam the publication along with other media outlets.
“No matter what you write and how respectfully you write it, it’s always going to be taken out of context, so if you do work in media or are heading into media, then just remember that,” she started off saying.
“Pedestrian have just written a f***ing article about Abbie and I’s [sic] feud. We don’t have a f***ing feud, it is what it is.
“I don’t love her, I don’t hate her. That’s it, full stop.
“I’m done answering your Q&A questions about the Abbie thing because I feel like every time I answer honestly and how I feel about it, it just gets blown out of proportion,” she said. “It gets totally blown out of context, and I’m f***ing over it.
“I don’t want to have to deal with comments like, ‘Why are you being so passive-aggressive? Why are you opening a can of worms? You’re just jealous’. No, I’m f*cking not. I live my life the way that I live my life.”
Brooke then said that the “reality” of her life is that she is currently “organising quotes for gravestones” for her grandmother, mother and sister Ky, who sadly passed away while she was filming The Bachelorette.
“I don’t give a f*ck about anything to do with this f*cking feud that people want to make out [I have].”
Brooke’s frustration comes after she revealed on her podcast, Not So PG, that Abbie wasn’t her first choice to appear as her loved one on The Bachelorette.
“I was so upset,” she said. “So a lot of people don’t know this, that my original friends, I guess who I had chosen specifically to be, you know, my point of reference in that last decision making on The Bachelorette was [podcast co-host] Matty [Mills] and Amy [Thunig], and I didn’t originally choose Abbie.”
Brooke also went on to drop some truth bombs about her ex-boyfriend and The Bachelorette Australia winner, Darvid Garayeli, saying if she met him outside of the show, she probably wouldn’t have jumped into a relationship with him.
“I feel like I wish I had my people around me to support me through it because I picked someone who I probably wouldn’t actually ever approach ever,” she said.
She revealed that she needed “someone who is … a bit more emotionally mature and has kind of their sh*t together. [sic].”
While we’re not entirely sure what transpired between the two, Darvid recently responded to a fan question on Instagram, asking whether he was still friends with Brooke.
He responded: “It’s a strong no from me ?.”
