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This is Behind the Rose, where Bachelor Nation meets country music and everything in between.

Here's your host, Blake Horsman.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Behind the Rose podcast. I'm your host, Blake

Horsman, here with my buddy as usual, Eric Bradley, and today we're talking to Canadian-American

TV host and personality, Renee Paquette. We'll talk to Renee in a few minutes about what

it's like to be a woman in a male-dominated industry like WWE, how the spark between her and her

now husband, Dean Ambrose,

began at work, and how her first interview with John Cena ended before it even began.

But first, it's been a big day in Bachelors Nation. Honestly, one of the bigger bombshells

we've had in bachelation in quite some time. And there are always some kind of news bombshells.

But Colton Underwood this morning

did an interview on Good Morning America and came out to the whole world that he is, he is gay.

And obviously, me and Eric are very close with Colton. I was obviously on the season. Eric knew

Colton before, did you know before he even went on the show? Before he was the Bachelor, yes.

So yeah, I guess not, I mean, I'm happy for him. Let me put it that way first. Let me say that first. I'm happy for him. I can't imagine, I literally, like, it's impossible for me to relate to carrying around a secret like that and feeling like you have to hide who you are on national television in front of millions of people. Like I can't, I can't relate and I can't imagine what the inner demons and inner struggles that man must have had for all these, you know, at least, well, basically his whole life, but especially the last three years, you know, like, that's incredible. It's insane. You know, amongst our peer group and a lot of our friends that internally know Colton, there was always kind of like rumblings and, you know, where we've always kind of like had a feeling or, you know, we're suspicious of like the idea of it, Izzy, isn't he?

And in seeing the pressures and how much like he's faced through the years and the of trying to appease and live through

everybody and for everybody else and not himself like it does have to be super freeing for him to

have that out now I couldn't be happier for him yeah in the future I've had of him and hopefully

now he can enjoy life and and yeah just be happy and live agreed i mean

he talked about you know in that interview like first of all that interview i will i've known like

said i've known colton a lot i've seen him on national television before i've been on national

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