The Bachelor's Caelynn Miller Keyes Was 'Hurt' Hannah Brown Was Chosen as 'Bachelorette' Over Her

The Bachelor‘s Caelynn Miller-Keyes is opening up about how she felt when Hannah Brown was given the title of The Bachelorette in 2019. At the time, Caelynn was also up for the job.

“I remember getting the call that it wasn’t me for Bachelorette and I was like, ‘Dang! That kind of sucks,’” she said on the “Almost Famous” podcast. “And then I found out it was [Hannah] at Women Tell All, we all kind of knew at Women Tell All that it was her. And it hurt. It definitely hurt.”

If you don’t know, Caelynn and Hannah both competed at the same time in the Miss USA pageant circuit and didn’t get along. Their drama was documented while they competed on Colton Underwood‘s season of The Bachelor.

Caelynn added, “It stung and I was upset and I was kind of led to believe that it was mine and then suddenly it wasn’t. It was Hannah’s. Looking back on previous seasons, it’s always been in the top four and then to branch out and to pick Hannah … it just hurt.”

If you missed it, Hannah has been involved in a big controversy.