The Bachelor alum Alex Nation has made the heartbreaking confession she once had an abortion, after falling pregnant to her co-star Richie Strahan in 2016.

The media personality, 32, made the admission on the latest episode of the Confessions of a Reality Star podcast, admitting the pregnancy was a shock to them both.

‘I fell pregnant towards the end of our relationship. So, it was not this happy, exciting, “Oh my God, I’m pregnant!”… it was, “Oh God”,’ she began.

She added the pregnancy came at a bad time as their relationship was already struggling, so she had to work out if they were on the same page. 

‘Richie wanted to fight for the relationship, but I didn’t feel he was happy either. Maybe he was fighting for it because he felt he had to, but I knew we weren’t each other’s people. 

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The Bachelor alum Alex Nation has made the heartbreaking confession that she once had an abortion, after falling pregnant to her co-star Richie Strahan. Pictured together in 2016

The Bachelor alum Alex Nation has made the heartbreaking confession that she once had an abortion, after falling pregnant to her co-star Richie Strahan. Pictured together in 2016

‘I’ve had a child before at 19. I knew there was no way I could bring another child into the world and come away from it mentally unscathed. 

‘It would be very detrimental to my mental health and well-being. I knew in my heart going through with it was not the right decision.’ 

Alex then said she discussed her decision with Richie and he fully agreed with how she felt.

‘I was like, “What are we going to do?” and he was like, “What do you want to do?”, he wasn’t trying to sway my decision in any way,’ she said.

‘He was very supportive of my decision when I said I don’t think we are in a position to have a baby, I don’t want to have the child, I want an abortion. He was fully in agreement.’

She added that looking back on the situation she was confident they made the right decision.

Alex and Richie announced their split in 2017, less than a year after the show’s romantic finale.

On Bachelor In Paradise in 2019, she revealed the shock reason that lead to the pair’s separation.

The media personality made the admission on the latest episode of the Confessions of a Reality Star podcast , admitting the pregnancy was a shock to them both

The media personality made the admission on the latest episode of the Confessions of a Reality Star podcast , admitting the pregnancy was a shock to them both

'I fell pregnant, towards the end of our relationship. So, it was not this happy, exciting, "Oh my God, I'm pregnant!"... it was, "Oh God",' Alex began. Pictured at their last public appearance together at the 2017 Logies

 ‘I fell pregnant, towards the end of our relationship. So, it was not this happy, exciting, “Oh my God, I’m pregnant!”… it was, “Oh God”,’ Alex began. Pictured at their last public appearance together at the 2017 Logies 

Within the unedited, raw and uncensored nine-minute conversation, Alex emotionally said: ‘I was left alone, to go through something massive that no woman should go through!’

Claiming to have cut ties with each other since their ‘grubby breakup’, the former couple’s tense exchange was their first opportunity to clear the air.  

Richie complained that ‘I just can’t believe someone would do that to someone’ about an incident they left undisclosed, which riled up Alex.

‘I feel like people would have a very big opinion of a woman, being left alone, to do something that involved both of us,’ Alex quipped. 

Alex later found love with her new boyfriend-turned-husband Carson Jory following her split with Richie, and shares two children with him: Maxwell, two, and Pearl, one.

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