Blake Moynes Reflects on Biggest Takeaway 1 Year After Katie Thurston Split: Stop ‘Giving’ Away ‘Trust’

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Things are always changing in Bachelor Nation, but Blake Moynes isn’t afraid to admit that he can’t believe it’s been a year since his whirlwind engagement to Katie Thurston ended.“In some way, it kind of still feels like yesterday,” the 31-year-old Bachelorette alum exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting SITKA Studio’s collaboration for conservation with Martin Guitar and Thomas Rhett. “And I think only because time off [of] the actual show and television is one thing, but when things continue to kind of spiral off that and it’s six months later — all that stuff kind of happened after the actual finale of the show — that it kind of keeps up with you in a way.

You’re still getting tagged along on the way — memes and this — that makes you feel like you never got out of it in a really weird way.”He added with a laugh, “So I remember it like yesterday.

It’s one that I’d like to now forget — just in the way that it all kind of played out. But it has been a year and it does not feel like that at all.”News broke in October 2021 that Moynes and Thurston ended their relationship after their proposal aired in August 2021.

She went on to date season 17 contestant John Hersey for several months before their split in June.“I like to just give people all my trust and then, you know, if they break it, they break it.