THE Bachelor contestant Sydney Hightower shared experiences of being bullied in high school during Monday’s episode, but one of her former schoolmates has accused her of lying.
The classmate claimed the story she told on the ABC series to bachelor Peter Weber was “far fetched.”
During the Bachelor broadcast, Sydney told Pilot Pete she ate lunch in the bathroom every day in high school because she was bullied for being biracial.
The Twitter user said this wasn’t true and shared snaps of their high school yearbook, featuring photos of Sydney with a bunch of sashes and crowns, to prove it.
She captioned the pictures, with one showing Sydney winning “Upperclassman Top Beauty,” with a bunch of laughing emojis, as she quoted Sydney talking about eating “lunch in the bathroom everyday of highschool.”
The user added: “I’m selling my yearbooks for $200 a pop, who wants the tea”
Sydney was quick to fire back at the claim she was lying, tweeting: “Feels ridiculous I even have to address this. But correct I did win a beauty pageant my senior year of high school.
“That was voted for by 5 judges. Not by my peers. Winning a pageant based off of outer beauty does not take away the racial bullying, and isolation I’ve been through.
“I was also on the cheer team in middle school and in many clubs in high school. You’ll do anything you can to fit in, and I tried.
“I won pageants because of my ‘looks’ and I was in clubs because I wanted a scholarship to get into college. Not because I was accepted by my peers.”
She continued: “Any one from my high school want to pull out the videos of girls stuffing my locker with Oreo cookies, vandalizing my home, shoving me in the hall ways?
“Teachers literally referring to me as a halfbreed? Calling my mother the worst names I’ve ever heard in my life? I doubt that.”
The Bachelor contestant slammed her former schoolmate via direct messages, which she chose to share publicly with her followers.
Sydney wrote to her: “I don’t know you, but I do remember you from high school and your social group did not care for me.
“And that’s OK. Because I would never want the approval of hateful, racist human beings.”
The classmate responded to her: “Just stop. Everything your saying is not true…Please, you have received whatever attention you were seeking and I hope that filled your cup.”
The user also tweeted publicly: “I have nothing against her. I haven’t made [any] fake claims I just posted the yearbook photos to say it’s a bit far fetched.”
“I simply posted the tweet to express ‘everyday of senior year’ was embellished, and some of the truth was withheld.
“She did experience bullying and racial issues, but the whole point was she got on tv and said her entire senior year, which isn’t true. But she also took part in being a mean girl.”
Since these allegations against Sydney were made, she’s shared photos of multiple hate-and-slur-filled direct messages from trolls on Twitter.
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