Rachel Lindsay says there was a racist contestant on her season of The Bachelorette

 The Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay has taken aim at the show’s producers for allowing a ‘racist contestant’ onto her season.

The 35-year-old made history in 2017 as the first black Bachelorette, but was adamant that ABC should do more to weed out intolerance in the reality TV show.

‘[They need] to do a better job of vetting contestants,’ The Bachelor alum told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday.

She continued, ‘You need a person of color in the decision room making decisions so that doesn’t happen to them.’ 

Of her own experience, Rachel said, ‘I would hope in the future that never happens again. It’s a storyline that shouldn’t happen.’

Back in 2017, the reality TV star called out Lee Garrett, a contestant from her season of The Bachelorette, for his offensive tweets.

In a The Men Tell All special, Lindsay told Garrett, ‘Please know that you could exit stage left and meet me stage left and I’d be more than happy to give you a black history lesson, a lesson on women’s rights.’

The Nashville singer squirmed in the hot seat as previous tweets he wrote were shown, including one where he advised guys to get a dog rather than a girlfriend, and another asking: ‘When is the last time you actually saw a pretty Feminist?’

But most damningly, he was confronted over his previous tweet about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that said: ‘What’s the difference between the NAACP and the KKK? One has a sense of shame to cover their racist a** faces.’

‘For me to just read that out loud makes me feel unbelievably uncomfortable,’ host Chris Harrison insisted, asking Lee: ‘How do you feel about it?’

After being pressed by both Lindsay and his fellow contestants, many of whom were African-American, Garrett finally admitted: ‘That tweet was racist and I denounce it.’

Rachel said it wasn’t just from within the show that she was attacked, either.

‘From the audience. I definitely experienced it,’ added the attorney. 

‘More so when it came to picking the men, and then at the end, my husband is Colombian, so I got a lot of racism towards the fact that we were in an interracial relationship. Just a lot of nasty messages, trolling.’

Rachel is married to the winning contestant of her season, Bryan Abasolo.

Meanwhile ABC recently announced that Matt James will be the first ever black star of The Bachelor, in the dating show’s forthcoming season.