The Bachelorette’s Ali Oetjen reveals why she still isn’t ready to start dating again – seven months after devastating split from Taite Radley
Ali Oetjen may be single, but she’s certainly not ready to mingle.
Speaking to the Courier Mail on Wednesday, the former Bachelorette star, 34, confirmed that she’s fully recovered from her emotional split from Taite Radley, 30, last year, and is now happily single.
‘I’m just doing me at the moment,’ she confirmed.
‘I’m just doing me at the moment’: The Bachelorette’s Ali Oetjen, 34, (right) says she still isn’t ready to start dating again, seven months after devastating split from Taite Radley, 30 (left)
Ali split from Taite in July last year after a whirlwind two-year romance.
Heartbroken, the reality star moved into her parent’s home on Queensland‘s Sunshine Coast for four months, before finally moving into her own two-bedroom ‘treehouse’ earlier this month.
‘I found a beautiful treehouse to call my own,’ she told the Courier Mail, describing the move as a ‘whole new world’.
‘I’m into the next chapter. I couldn’t be happier’: Ali said she’s finally at peace with single life after moving out of her parent’s home and into a new two-bedroom ‘treehouse’
‘I’m into the next chapter. I couldn’t be happier,’ she said.
Ali and Taite announced their split via Instagram seven months ago saying they were ‘taking time apart’ and giving each other ‘some space’.
The couple shared near identical statements underneath selfies together and said they were making the shock announcement with ‘the heaviest heart’.
Splitsville: Ali and Taite announced their split via Instagram seven months ago saying they were ‘taking time apart’ and giving each other ‘some space’
Just weeks later, Ali joined the cast of Seven’s military-style show SAS Australia.
During an interrogation scene on the program, Ali tearfully explained to the drill sergeants how ’empty’ she felt after losing the man she considered her ‘soul mate’.
Speaking on the How To… Life podcast in November, Ali admitted she was terrified to have her heart broken again.
Gutted: During an interrogation scene on SAS Australia, Ali tearfully explained to the drill sergeants how ’empty’ she felt after losing the man she considered her ‘soul mate’
‘[Dating] actually scares me now. You think something’s it and then it doesn’t turn out to be what you were hoping, even throughout the relationship,’ she confessed.
‘I’ve never had any relationship hurt so bad; I am still healing,’ she said at the time.
Ali admitted that the split became even more painful when she developed the toxic habit of checking personal trainer Taite’s Instagram page.
‘You think something’s it and then it doesn’t turn out to be what you were hoping’: Speaking on the How To… Life podcast in November, Ali admitted she was terrified to have her heart broken again
‘You can’t help but not check their Instagram! I can definitely say that I have stopped checking [Taite’s] Instagram because I found that was a pattern as well that I had to break,’ she admitted.
She also revealed she and Taite had initially kept in contact after breaking up because neither wanted to ‘fully let go’.
Sadly, Ali would often find herself in tears after every interaction with her ex.
The pair have since ended all forms of communication.