Abbie Chatfield has thanked her followers for their outpouring of support after she revealed she was raped while at a party in high school.
The Bachelor star, 28, shared the shocking incident on her It’s A Lot podcast this week during an interview with Teach Us Consent CEO Chanel Contos.
Following the interview, Abbie took to social media to express her gratitude to fans for their support with a heartfelt message on Thursday.
‘I just wanted to thank everyone who has messaged me about my SA story on this week’s episode of It’s a Lot,’ she began.
‘Never thought I would tell that story and am unsure I will speak about it more but it felt like the right time to touch on it briefly as something only a handful of people knew about.’
Abbie Chatfield (pictured) has thanked fans for their outpouring of support after she revealed she was raped at a party
‘Regardless of my story, this week’s episode was so important but also Chanel and I had a lot of fun. It felt like how my friends and I talk about heavy topics and that’s probably why I was okay to share my story.’
Abbie opened up to listeners about the incident during an interview on her podcast this week.
‘I’ve never spoken about this. I feel sick even bringing this up,’ Abbie began.
‘Basically, I had consensual sex with one guy at this party, and then I was so drunk that I was passed out in a bush. And then this other guy had sex with me – who I’d kissed two weekends before, or something. That was rape.’
In a shocking twist, Abbie claimed her friends had no sympathy when she told them.
‘My friends were just kind of like, ‘You’re being ridiculous, you’re just a sl*t, and you just regret it so you don’t want to talk about it’,’ she said.
Abbie took to social media to express her gratitude to fans for their support with a heartfelt message on Thursday
The Masked Singer tried to brush off the incident for years, before the trauma came rushing back at an unexpected moment.
‘It wasn’t until I got older, like 20, or something, and I had sex with my boyfriend in a park… I had a full blown panic attack, and was like, ‘Why was that?”
Abbie clarified she has no plans to name the man responsible for her assault, because ‘he was young and didn’t have the information to understand that that wasn’t OK.’
‘So therefore [I feel like] if I speak about it, I’m potentially just ruining his life because he probably has no idea how that affected me. Why are we carrying around the guilt and the shame and the anxiety about it?’ she asked.
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Abbie opened up about the shocking incident during an interview on her podcast this week
