Spilling the tea!
Bachelor Nation fans watched Kat Izzo and Dale Moss meet and fall for each other on Season 10 of “Bachelor in Paradise.” The two left the beach together as a couple, but since the show wrapped, it appeared they’ve gone their separate ways.
This week, Kat publicly confirmed their breakup for the first time on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast and shared behind-the-scenes details of their relationship.
Now, in the second part of her interview, Kat revealed the shocking reason that ultimately led to their split.
The Bachelor Nation star started by explaining they both decided to go on a break. However, the two were still technically together when Dale visited San Diego and expressed he wanted to work things out.
“He’s in San Diego, we spend the whole weekend together. He’s like, ‘I love you, I want to be with you. I want to make this work,’” she said. She tentatively agreed and the two started talking every day for a few more weeks, until ultimately realizing that nothing had changed. Kat felt like she couldn’t move on while their relationship was in limbo, so after not hearing from Dale for an entire weekend, she called to end things.
“The second we get off the phone, I get a ‘hey girly’ text,” she stated, “Literally the moment I pressed that button, I get a ‘hey girly’ text from one of my friends who got a ‘hey girly’ text from someone else.” Kat then read the messages that claimed Dale slept with another girl the night prior and could provide photo evidence. Kat stated that she immediately called Dale, but he denied hooking up with someone else.
After going back and forth on the phone and learning more information, Kat decided to reach out to the girl directly. “I reach out to the girl personally because as [Dale and I] were talking before that,” she reflected, “I was like, ‘How did you get to the bedroom?’ And he was like, ‘Well, we were talking and she followed me into my room and then she left. And we never slept together — we did everything besides sex.’ All this stuff and all these things, it just kept growing.”
“It comes out, of course, that they did actually fully hook up and she was actually the one that kicked him out of the room,” Kat continued, “All these crazy details that completely conflict everything that he said. And I — at that point — was like, ‘Okay, I’m done. You will never be able to speak to me again because now, at this point, every single thing that you have said to me has been a lie.’ …I think he probably was not honest with me about other things in the relationship. I mean, I saw so many signs of it, so what hurt me so much was the level that he went to be dishonest. I felt like, how can someone be so capable of that?”
Kat then shared she refused to speak to Dale afterward and dished about an “insane” encounter that occurred over the holidays.
“This is what I’m gonna end with because this is what’s so crazy. And if there’s one thing about me, it’s that if you try to silence me, I’m going to scream louder. I actually wasn’t going to make anything public about our breakup. He decided to do that,” she revealed, “When he went to the press and said that we broke up because we’re better off as friends — which would require us to be friends first — they reached out to me. They said, ‘This is what happened, give me a comment.’ And I go, ‘Oh, that’s not actually the story.’”
“I did [tell the full story] to an extent, obviously,” she continued, “I was just like, ‘This is actually the case.’ And then I receive, the day before Thanksgiving, a cease and desist. A three-page, multiple-paragraph, harassment cease and desist. It was insane. It was the most insane thing I’ve ever read in my life. It’s like, you don’t agree with what my experience is, so you’re trying to make me not say it? And send threatening messages about how you’re gonna sue me for millions of dollars if I do? When, guess what? Defamation only works if I was lying.”
Hear the rest of Kat’s shocking conversation in the full episode of “Bachelor Happy Hour” below!