Bachelor alum Taylor Nolan is formally beneath investigation by Washington state well being officers for her previous offensive tweets.
Washington Division of Well being spokesperson Gordon MacCracken advised Web page Six on Wednesday, March 24, that the inquiry “doesn’t essentially imply that disciplinary motion will happen, simply that we’re transferring to the stage of an investigation.”
MacCracken famous that there was no particular timeline for a way lengthy the proceedings may take, including that he can not “predict an end result.”
Nolan, 27, is a licensed psychological well being counselor. The DOH signaled earlier this month that her profession might be impacted by her social media scandal.
“This week, we’ve acquired a number of complaints in opposition to Nolan in reference to the problems you talked about,” MacCracken advised Web page Six on the time. “These complaints are beneath evaluation. Affected person security is our high precedence, and we take all complaints critically.”
Nolan’s tweets, which spanned from 2011 to 2013, went viral on Reddit in February. The posts insulted minority teams, together with Indian, Asian and Jewish communities, in addition to contained fat-shaming and homophobic slurs.
The Bachelor in Paradise alum apologized in an Instagram video on the time. “My tweets from 10 years in the past are s—tty, they suck, they have been unsuitable and are hurtful,” she captioned the submit. “I wish to be clear that they don’t take away from the work I do at the moment, they’re actually how I obtained right here to doing this work. In case you’re gonna take the time and power to scroll by ten years of my tweets, then please take your time to hearken to this video.”
She continued: “I by no means deleted these tweets for a cause as a result of they’ve been part of my journey since manner earlier than going [on] The Bachelor. I didn’t want anybody to name these issues out to me to know they have been unsuitable, I’ve been doing that work alone for the final ten years and it’s the identical work I do at the moment and the identical work I’ll proceed doing for the remainder of my life.”
Nolan — who has been outspoken about Chris Harrison’s controversial interview with Rachel Lindsay — launched one other assertion after some claimed she was “deflecting” in her preliminary feedback. “Yesterday’s response was a response and never an apology. I’m sorry I didn’t take a second to return appropriate. I owe you all an apology,” she wrote through Instagram. “There isn’t a query or defending that each phrase of my previous tweets are dangerous, unsuitable, triggering and extremely upsetting to the communities that I establish with and that I help. I’m so sorry to the parents that have been triggered and re-traumatized by seeing the hurtful phrases from my previous.”
A number of members of Bachelor Nation have slammed Nolan for her previous remarks, together with former foe Corinne Olympios. Along with describing the social media exercise as “very alarming,” the 28-year-old actuality star mentioned on Us Weekly‘s “Right here for the Proper Causes” podcast earlier this month: “I don’t wish to give myself any pats on the again for this as a result of that is actually a scenario, [but] I did name it to some extent.”
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