‘Bachelorette’ Contestant Logan Palmer Addresses Conspiracy ‘Theories’ Surrounding His Sudden Exit: I’m Not a ‘Plant’

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Setting the record straight. Bachelorette contestant Logan Palmer addressed the “creative” conspiracy theories about his sudden exit from Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia‘s season.“This is not something I expected to get this reaction it has.

There’s, like, these very creative, very artistic theories about what actually happened to me,” the videographer, 26, said with a laugh during an appearance on the Thursday, September 1, episode of the “Talking It Out with Bachelor Nation” podcast. “I did indeed get a positive COVID test.”Logan caused some drama among his fellow contestants when — despite previously accepting a rose from Rachel, 26, — he decided to pursue Gabby, 31, midway through the season.

After a tense group date in Amsterdam with the rest of the men hoping to win the ICU nurse’ heart, host Jesse Palmer announced that the California native had been sent home after testing positive for COVID-19.Though his sudden departure from the show raised eyebrows and inspired conspiracy theories among many fans watching at home, Logan confirmed the story as the truth. “I [was] back on the ship … and I’m getting my suit ready and [the producers] were like, ‘Logan, step away.

Go to your room right now,” he told podcast hosts Mike Johnson and Bryan Abasolo. “Luckily, the rest of the guys [who were on the date] were OK.”He continued: “I was just as bummed out and just as underwhelmed [by] that exit as everyone else who was watching. … After all that, after the emotional roller-coaster that I put other people through, after the emotional roller-coaster that I was on, for it to end that was like an absolute dart to my heart. … It was terrible.”While his Bachelorette journey may have ended in an anticlimactic way, Logan did confess