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Jenn Tran Says DWTS Helped Her Through Her Bachelorette Breakup
“At the end of the day, I only have myself.”
The Bachelorette’s Jenn Tran credits her Dancing with the Stars partner, Sasha Farber, for helping her navigate a particularly difficult period of her life.
Tran, who was eliminated from DWTS on Oct. 29, spoke to People at the Los Angeles Wicked premiere on Nov. 9, and revealed how Farber encouraged her to focus on what “really matters” following her breakup with Bachelorette finalist Devin Strader.
“Right after the breakup [with Strader], I was going through a lot of stuff being said online and stuff being spilled out,” she said. “Sasha really helped ground me and tell me that it’s my friends and family who really matter at the end of the day and everything’s going to blow over on social media and just keep doing me because, at the end of the day, I only have myself.”
Tran added that Farber has inspired her to continue dancing beyond DWTS. “I’m still going to do it because I think people should be able to do what makes them happy,” she said. “I’m still going to do some dance classes — and hopefully come back for the finale and do a little dance or something with Sasha.”
Jenn’s Bachelorette Breakup
After starring as a contestant on Joey Graziadei’s season of The Bachelor, Tran was announced as The Bachelorette for Season 21, which wrapped on Sept. 3. While Tran got engaged to Strader, she revealed during the After the Final Rose special that he’d since broken up with her.
Shortly after, she joined the cast of DWTS Season 33, and speaking recently to Page Six, she revealed that she turned to Taylor Swift’s music during the aftermath of the breakup.
After performing a foxtrot to Swift’s song “The Archer” on the Oct. 15 episode, Tran said she listened to the singer’s Tortured Poets Department track “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” on repeat after her Bachelorette season.
“I was listening to that over and over for the past couple of months,” she told the outlet. “Taylor is a lyrical genius. To be able to perfectly portray an emotion that somebody else is feeling all the way across the world is such a gift.”
