Kaitlyn Bristowe has a wild new claim about ex Jason Tartick — and it involves his new dog, Teddy.
Bristowe, 39, alleged during the tell-all episode of her “Off the Vine” podcast, released on Thursday, April 3, that Tartick, 36, stole her “dream baby name” for the golden retriever he rescued last month — and she supposedly has a text that proves it.
“I said, the day I met him, ‘I want to name my baby Teddy,’” she claimed.
Bristowe said she feels less anger and more “disrespected” by his actions.
“I just have so many gross feelings from that because for so long I was made to feel crazy and now I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m not crazy.’ I just saw what other people are seeing now,” she continued. “It’s just not aligned. What I want out of life is not what he wants and that is [why] two people shouldn’t be together like that. So, I’m not fully angry, I’m just really grossed out and disappointed.”
Bristowe noted that Thursday’s podcast episode will “probably be the last time” she ever discusses Tartick publicly.
“I didn’t for so long, and that felt really good because I had let it go,” she continued. “That kind of just fired something up in me again. I think it’s OK to talk about.”
Bristowe and Tartick were together for four years before announcing their split in August 2023.
“I’m very much over him. I ended the relationship. I did not want to be in that,” Bristowe also said on Thursday. “It felt icky to me. It felt like everything was for Instagram and numbers. I did not wanna be in it.”
Both Bristowe and Tartick publicly shared the details of their split, offering more insight as the years went on, but custody of their dogs appeared to cause the most tension. The former couple shared rescue golden retrievers Ramen and Pinot.
Things got hotter in Bachelor Nation when Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick kickstarted their headline-making relationship in January 2019. The Dew Edit designer and the former banker met during an interview on Bristowe’s “Off the Vine” podcast. They confirmed they were dating just two months after the former Bachelorette and her ex-fiancé, Shawn Booth, called […]
“I never once said he couldn’t see the dogs. I said, I’m no longer willing to coparent the dogs,” Bristowe said on Thursday. “I always said to him, I will never take the dogs away from you. You can come see them on the weekends. … I’m not letting the dogs bounce back and forth.”
Their split custody arrangement stopped last year as Bristowe said they were advised that the dogs were exhibiting behavior (like playing dead) that signaled that the arrangement wasn’t good for the dogs’ health. Months later, Tartick adopted Teddy.
“When I met him, I instantly fell in love and there was no turning back at that point,” he told Us Weekly exclusively of the pup. “I’m obsessed with him.”
