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She was raped in college, she told him.
She went to the police, and she went to the hospital to get a rape kit performed.
When she was finished, Colton asked questions and shared his own secondhand experience with sexual abuse.
He connected her story with the history ofhis own sexual non-history.
Subsequent investigations, interviews, and postmortems exonerated or otherwise excused the production.
Past trauma has always been just a springboard for new romantic feelings.
This is why Caelynn painstakingly recounting her sexual assault feels like a shift forThe Bachelor.
She was intensely emotional, but she was also careful.
Caelynn wouldve been Sad Sexual Assault Girl, pitiable and too damaged to be a real romantic lead.
None of this meansThe Bacheloris not stillThe Bachelor, of course.
Nevertheless, Caelynns account of her sexual assault feels like something new for the franchise.
It was edited without schmaltzy sad violins.
It was presented plainly and calmly, and without apology.
He wants her to be safe.
