Blake Horstmann Calls Out 'Bachelor in Paradise' Producers for Bullying Him After Watching 'Women Tell All'

Last night's Women Tell All special for this season of The Bachelor certainly brought up some major drama—especially for Tammy Ly—but it also drew attention to the toxic behavior many viewers demonstrate while watching the show. A few of Peter Weber's ladies in particular have opened up about death threats they've received, last year's Bachelorette Hannah Brown has shared screenshots of nasty harassment she's gotten, and as evidenced last night, it seems like most stars behind the franchise are treated very similarly. Season 13 Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay, came onto the stage during WTA to discuss how hurtful the bullying is, and while many people applauded ABC for it, others found it very hypocritical.

For starters, many people brought up the fact that producers allegedly edit footage in order to make certain contestants the villains of the show, almost encouraging viewers to bully them for the clips they see on TV. Especially this season, the focus was heavily on the drama between Peter's women, with even contestant Mykenna Dorn claiming that fans unfortunately didn't get to see the friendships they formed. The Bachelorette alum, Blake Horstmann, who was also featured on last year's season of Bachelor in Paradise, is also speaking out on producers affecting the narrative.

The 30-year-old Colorado native took to Twitter this morning after watching the WTA, stating that while he loved the message Rachel shared last night, he finds it "frustrating" that people from Paradise and the ABC producers "act like they didn't bully [him] for an entire season." He added that he was called things such as a "'terd that won't flush,' 'ugly,' etc." Blake concluded his tweet with the hashtag, "#practicewhatyoupreach."

As fans will remember, Blake had a particularly rough time on Paradise last summer after he was confronted by multiple girls about sleeping with them at the country music festival Stagecoach just months prior. The belief was that the reality star hid his hookups from the other women, and then came onto BIP without the intentions of speaking to the ladies. Things got super complicated, to say the least, and he definitely became the villain of the season. But Blake maintained his innocence through it all, begging the question of how much producers edited footage to make the situation seem worse than it was.

Clearly, not everything is as it seems when it comes to the Bachelor franchise, so let's all be a little nicer to these people, okay? No one deserves this kind of bullying.