Daisy Kent knew weeks before After the Final Rose that she wouldn’t hand out roses as the subsequent Bachelorette.

“I used to be very open and fair about it and very clear that I wasn’t sure if I sought after to do it but like two weeks before [AFTR I had decided],” Daisy, 25, stated all through the Thursday, April 4, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. “They have been all super nice and respectful and understood all my reasons. They still need to see me grow and said, ‘If we can can help you by any means, we wish to.’”

Daisy was once one in every of Joey Graziadei’s final two girls and opted to break up with him in the finale — which used to be filmed in November 2023 — after she realized that Kelsey Anderson was once “his particular person.” (Joey, 28, proposed to Kelsey, 25, moments after Daisy’s breakup. They are nonetheless together.)

After Daisy left The Bachelor, she began talks with producers about changing into the franchise’s next lead. During AFTR in March, she publicly declined the role.

“There’s, like, a few reasons. One is my well being is a facet of it and I knew as the lead, it’s a lot on you — no longer best emotionally but additionally physically.” Daisy, who's deaf and has a cochlear implant, defined on Thursday. “You’re up tremendous late, it’s nonstop and I talked to a large number of past leads when [the show] was in talks with me and I just knew from a health level it will be a lot.”

Daisy additionally admitted that she “wasn’t in a position for that particular factor,” seemingly relating to the dedication of getting engaged at the end of the season.

“I feel coming off the show and doing the display, I didn’t notice how a lot of a giant thing it is,” Daisy mentioned. “I think right now I just need to reside and be happy. I’m at all times gonna leap for alternatives but I just assume this explicit opportunity wasn’t right for me at this time.”

Daisy additional stressed that she was thinking about “hurting folks” all over the season.

“There’s round 30 people and, like, you'll’t send everybody house at once. What if I didn’t in truth like them?” she explained. “I don’t think I could sit down there and kiss anyone and what I imply? So, I thought truly hard and long about it all. It wasn’t an easy determination. I was wondering, like, after it were given announced how I would really feel … however I’m, like, so glad presently that I didn’t. So, it feels good [and] like I made the right determination for me.”

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Daisy also had “numerous conversations” with her family members and a couple of past Bachelor Nation leads before making her ultimate choice.

“Everyone was once like, ‘It’s the toughest thing I’ve ever executed,’ but a large number of folks were like, ‘It’s also the absolute best factor too,’ and no one regretted it,” she mentioned. “But [they stated], ‘If [you’re] doing it, be sure you’re in a position.’ It didn’t really feel proper.”

After Daisy turned down The Bachelorette, they presented the mantle to Jenn Tran. Her season is currently filming, which Daisy is “so excited” to watch.

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