Jenna Cooper is moving on to bigger and better things. More than a year after being accused of cheating on her Bachelor in Paradise costar Jordan Kimball, the Indiana native has cleared her name in the scandal that ended the former couple’s engagement.
“This is a day that I never really saw coming,” Cooper, 30, tells Us Weekly exclusively. “I know what happened initially and how bullied I was, and part of me just never wanted to talk about it, but I couldn’t let it go and it feels amazing. I can’t even describe it. It feels great to get the truth out.” Cooper and Kimball, 28, got engaged on the season 5 finale of the ABC summer reality series in September 2018. However, the same day that the episode aired, Bachelor blogger Stephen “Reality Steve” Carbone released screenshots of text messages that appeared to show Cooper talking to a “sugar daddy.” She denied the allegations right from the start, but Kimball quickly called off their relationship. “I thought that Jordan would defend me and we would get through it together, but it turned out very different,” the social media manager recalls to Us. “I mean it was a big downward spiral. Everybody went against me.”
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