Rachel Lindsay Paid $500K to Ex, Then Called Him "Leech"—Here's What Happened

When Rachel Lindsay made a $13,000 spousal support payment to her ex-husband Bryan Abasolo, she had a very specific message in mind. On the Monday, July 6 episode of Radio Andy’s SiriusXM’s“Smith Sisters Live,”the 41-year-old Bachelorette star explained exactly why she wrote“temporary leech money”on the check—and why it backfired spectacularly.

Here’s where it gets interesting: Lindsay wasn’t trying to broadcast her frustration to the world. She was venting privately to Abasolo, using language that she thought would stay between them.“I wasn’t going to make it public unless I put it in the book,”she said, adding that she’d planned to change the memo line every time she sent a payment, keeping her anger contained to just the two of them. But Abasolo had other ideas—he posted it online, apparently hoping to turn public opinion against Lindsay.

Instead, the opposite happened. Lindsay settled a total of $500,000 in spousal support following her 2024 divorce from Abasolo, whom she married in 2019 in Cancun, Mexico after meeting on her season 13 of The Bachelorette in 2017. The irony? Abasolo even asked the court to sanction her an additional $5,000 as punishment for the note. Lindsay laughed it off, saying the move“made him look stupid,”while her older sister now refers to him exclusively as“Leech.”

But here’s what really stands out about this whole saga: Lindsay is openly proud that she managed to pay off the entire $500,000 settlement in just one year.“I’m very proud,”she said on the podcast.“Dumb not getting a prenup, but proud that I was able to pay it off in a year.”She’d already finished paying by January 2026. The whole situation reads less like ongoing resentment and more like a woman who figured out how to close the book on her marriage as quickly as possible—memo line commentary included.