Rachel Lindsay is slamming her estranged husband Bryan Abasolo for exaggerating their “glamorous” lifestyle in his January divorce petition.
In Lindsay's response statement, obtained exclusively by Page Six on Thursday, the former “Bachelorette” star said she “does not agree” to Abasolo's request for spousal support and attorney's fees.
“I'm not as well-off as he thinks I am,” wrote Lindsay, 39. “Plus, there's no way I could pay his lawyer $75,000 for a simple divorce proceeding. If I did, I wouldn't have enough money to pay my own lawyer.”
The former lawyer claims he has “approximately $88,500 in non-severance funds” and that his “financial situation has changed over the past few years.”
Lindsay currently co-hosts the “Higher Learning” podcast with Van Lathan.
“I've had sporadic social media deals, but my main source of income from 2023 onwards will be my work for Spotify,” she explains.
The former reality TV star claims the estranged couple's “married standard of living (MSOL)” was not as glamorous as Brian portrayed it to be, claiming the pair “rarely saw each other or even lived together during their divorce.” [their] “A short marriage.”
Lindsay said she and Abasolo tied the knot in Cancun in August 2019. Abasolo is a 44-year-old chiropractor who “also hosts a podcast and makes money from social media.”
“But we were legally married on October 4, 2019,” she said.
The couple agreed to a separation date of December 31, 2023.
Abasolo, who met Lindsay while competing on “The Bachelorette” in 2017, filed for divorce on January 2.
“Brian and I have always maintained separate bank accounts (checking and savings), credit cards, retirement accounts, and brokerage accounts. We did not have any joint accounts during our marriage,” she wrote, having previously revealed that the couple did not sign a prenuptial agreement.
“From October 2019, before I moved to Los Angeles, until March 2021, Brian and I shared all household expenses. I spent my income and he spent his income,” she said.
“Since moving to Los Angeles in March 2021, I have paid for housing, pet care (including food, medicine, daycare, boarding, vet fees and pet insurance), Brian's health insurance, and Brian has paid for our gardener and contributed to some of our household expenses.”
According to Lindsay, the couple's Los Angeles wedding home will be in February 2022. [her] “Premarital property”
She said Abasolo ” [her] You can own a home without having to put any capital into maintenance costs.”
Explaining their trip, Lindsay said, “Their trips were sponsored and [they] Paid respectively [their] “Airfare is at your own expense.”
“If I was paying, I would never put Brian in business or first class. He flew economy class. We usually split hotel costs 50/50,” she wrote, adding, “Brian does most of the traveling. [they] Before marriage [they] This photo was taken during our wedding.”
Lindsay claims that Abasolo was “unaware that many of the expenses for these irregular trips were subsidized from other sources.”
“We went to Mexico twice before we were married, once to visit the wedding venue and once for the wedding,” she says.
During their marriage, Lindsay explains, Abasolo took her to Santa Barbara “one time.” [her] He paid for a trip for my birthday.
“The NFL sent me to Tennessee one time and paid for my travel expenses,” she said. “I went to New York a lot for work, and Brian would come with me sometimes.”
Lindsay continues, “We went to Sarasota, Florida, twice for back-to-back weddings, and to Washington, DC, once for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which I paid for.”
Lindsay said she and Abasolo “went to Colombia once and [his] Cousin's Wedding” and “Each Paid for [their] “Do it your own way” and “Split the hotel bill 50/50.”
“We went on one sponsored trip to Mexico with another Bachelor couple while we were married,” Lindsay said, adding, “We did not pay for this trip.”
“He made no mention of the trip we were paid to take to Aruba,” she wrote.
Lindsay said the restaurant Abasolo named in his declaration was ” [they] I visited frequently.”
“For example, we went to Mother Wolf once to celebrate a special occasion, and Brian paid for the meal,” she says.
Lindsay claims that because Bryan often worked late nights and she traveled frequently for work, she and Abasolo “rarely went out together or even had monthly dates.”
