Nayte Olukoya is getting candid about why he ended his engagement to “The Bachelorette” alum Michelle Young. The two previously announced their split in June, months after they announced their engagement.
While informing the public, Young claimed that the decision to end the matter blindsided him; however, in a recent interview, Olukoya contradicted his statement. The reality star claims that they had some issues before the split and have talked about breaking up twice before.
The 27-year-old further revealed that the couple started having problems as early as January 1, just over a week after the season finale of “The Bachelorette” ended. According to Olukoya, he ended things over the phone during the 29-year-old’s birthday weekend.
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Nayte Olukoya And Michelle Young Fight Two Weeks After The Season Finale
Olukoya and Young, the final couple on the 18th season of “The Bachelorette,” called it quits earlier this year. According to reports, the engagement was broken off over the phone by the 27-year-old man. He joined Nick Viall on “The Vialls Files” podcast on Thursday and discussed what led to it.
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Instagram/Babatunde Nayte Olukoya
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Olukoya revealed that she started experiencing problems in her relationship with Young on January 1 when the pair had their first big fight and an equally big fallout the next day. The date comes almost two weeks after “The Bachelorette” ended on December 21.
The reality star recalled, “We just stopped clicking… Communication was lost. January 2 — I remember it like yesterday. It was like, ‘What’s going on right now?’ I fell in love with this woman, and then, like, I’m not saying that she turned into, like, this terrible person, but it wasn’t that fast.”
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‘It’s Just a Red Flag’
As mentioned Us Weekly, the reality star was asked if she thought the two could get back together in the future but didn’t give an encouraging answer. According to him, the separation took “almost a week to finalize.” It mainly consisted of some “late night conversations, phone texting, FaceTimes, things like that.”
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Instagram/Michelle Young
Olukoya went on to list the number of insecurities the couple experienced while dating. He mentioned a time when he saw Young talking to a “very famous country singer”; however he deleted the entire conversation shortly after.
When he questioned her about it, the “Bachelor Happy Hour” host said she was meant to meet the celebrity with her friends for a pick-up basketball game and even get drinks with her. Olukoya claimed that the story was not backed up by one of his friends.
“He apologized for making me feel like I couldn’t trust him… Ever since that day, I’ve had a little bit of a trust issue,” the reality star said. “That was just a red flag. He apologized, and he made sure I knew it was nothing.”
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Nayte Olukoya Breaks Off Engagement Over Phone
The reality star went on to explain that she didn’t move to Minnesota like she had planned in March because she wanted to know if they were really compatible. Arguments in January reportedly played a role in his decision to delay the move.
Instagram/Babatunde Nayte Olukoya
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Olukoya revealed that he finally decided to end the engagement over the weekend of Young’s birthday over the phone. The weekend saw the pair involved in several disagreements, and Young’s friends reportedly didn’t have the best time either.
“I broke up with him over the phone,” the 27-year-old recalls. “You don’t want to break up with someone, especially your fiancé, over the phone. It’s his birthday weekend. We’re all here in LA because he and I are invited to this Wango Tango event.”
He explained that things between the couple were “kind of rocky” at the start of the weekend and gradually got worse. “He and I had an argument right before doing all those press interviews and stuff,” the reality star said.
Nayte Olukoya Says Breakup Happened
Since their split was announced in June, Young hasn’t talked much about it. However, he joined “The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast” and revealed (via Many people) that he did not expect the relationship to end; however, he would “leave it there.”
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Despite this, Olukoya claims the breakup had some build-up from their previous spat. He said that he and Young have visited the breakup issue twice before, and with the way things are going in Los Angeles, the split isn’t too far off.
Olukoya said, “If Michelle feels blind, I can’t take it away from her, but I know the reality is, it’s not the first time we’ve talked about a breakup. The day I left LA, the conversation was good. It’s already heading towards a breakup. It’s not the time first time we had a breakup conversation. Maybe this is the third time we’ve had a breakup conversation.”
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