All along, Michelle Young has been looking for her husband and other half on this season of The Bachelorette. Now that the finale is here — it airs on Tuesday, December 21 — the brunette beauty has two men vying for her heart: Nayte Olukoya and Brandon Jones, and it’s unclear who she is leaning towards.
“So, we told Michelle at the beginning to like, surrender to falling in love with more than one person and she really did that right up until the end. So, I think it’s gonna be a really really difficult decision for her,” Kaitlyn Bristowe, whose been co-hosting the past two seasons alongside Tayshia Adams, told Entertainment Tonight. “So, I think that’s what you have to look forward to.”
“She’s genuinely in love with two people,” she continued, adding that Young, 28, handled everything like a pro.
During the last episode, the school teacher let Joe Coleman go, which he couldn’t believe.
“I’m falling even more in love with you the more we get together,” he told Young on their date.
“I hope you know how much you mean to me,” she replied.
However, she just couldn’t see a future with the basketball star. “I have been falling in love with you. I’m still falling in love with you … You have a piece of my heart, and I think you always will,” she told him. “It’s just … I can’t be your person.”
Although this season was filled with ups and downs, it seems like the Minnesota native is looking forward to the future.
“I feel like I make the right decision in the end — it takes me a minute,” she declared. “One thing that I promised myself walking into [it] is that I’m going to stay true to who I am and I’m going to listen to my gut. I stayed true to who I was. And when I handed out date roses it’s because that’s how I was feeling in that moment. And I can’t change that.”
She added, “It’s so abnormal because you are showcasing a relationship and multiple relationships on national television. But what I can say is that there is a world where you can handle yourself, where you can be a teacher, but then you can also have a life and you can live your life. And, you know, teaching’s one part of me and it’s a very big passionate part of me, but what makes me a good teacher was staying balanced on the other side of that.”
The Bachelorette finale airs on Tuesday, December 21, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
