Craig Sjodin / ABC Clare Crawley and Dale Moss.
Clare Crawley speaks after her split from fiancée Dale Moss.
The former Bachelorette said during an Instagram Live on Friday that she had ‘struggled’ privately for a while, especially with anxiety, but now she is ready to be more vulnerable to her fans.
‘I think if you open yourself up to share what you are going through, not as a victim, but as a vulnerability, and more just like the human side of you, with your friends, with your family, with the public, just ‘as much as you want to share with people – mine is much more public than most people – but I think if we share our struggle, it gives people the opportunity to connect with it and share their struggle,’ Crawley said.
The reality star added that as she opened up, she had heard from fans experiencing similar situations.
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Crawley thanks fans who shared their own stories with her, and encourages people to open up to their loved ones.
“Those who love you support you,” she said.
However, not everyone was so supportive, and Crawley said: “You will be disgusted by the messages she received after her season of the year. Bachelorette, which was cut short when she chose Moss as her last suitor and he proposed.
Crawley said cruel messages, along with the Bachelorette, the pandemic, and the care of her mother, who has Alzheimer’s and dementia, mean she’s struggling with anxiety and panic attacks.
“I’m now getting to the point where I’m trying really hard to get back out of it and make a turn, because it’s a dark place to be in when you’ve put a lot of things together.”
In her Live on Friday, however, Crawley said, despite going through a difficult time, that she was trying to exercise gratitude by mentioning “10 things before I even opened my eyes in the morning for which I am grateful.”
“My idea of love and being loved is to have everything we go through, all the things we’ve experienced in life, whether it’s as you like to call it, like baggage, experiences, traumas, that we “Whatever goes through, whatever we wear, comes up with it,” she said.
“And to know … in spite of everything, such as that you are loved and that you will be loved by the right person for everything you bring to the table, whether it is the good, the bad, everything we bring to the table, the right person will love you for it. ‘
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Last week, Moss announced that he and Crawley were separated.
“I wanted to share everything that Clare and I decided to go separately. We appreciate the love and support we have received from so many people, but it is the healthiest decision for both of us at the moment,” he said. said in a statement on Instagram.
“We believe in leading with love and always staying true to yourself – something our families have taught and instilled in us throughout our lives,” he added. “We only hope for the best things for each other. – DM.”
However, Crawley said two days later that she was “made aware of a ‘mutual’ statement at the same time you all were.”
“I needed some time to really digest it,” she said, adding that she was “crushed” by the fall apart.
A source told PEOPLE that Moss “was not ready for marriage and children” and that “things only got harder after the show when they had to make big life decisions.”
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