Bachelor alum Taylor Nolan under investigation by health department… after mental health counselor’s racist posts and tweet suggesting ‘suicide’ prompt ‘multiple complaints’
Bachelor alum Taylor Nolan is being investigated by Washington state health officials after fans of the franchise dug up offensive tweets by the mental health counselor, according to Page Six.
The department had previously said they were considering looking into Nolan after getting ‘multiple complaints’ about her controversial old posts, which disparaged BIPOC and LGBTQ people as well as the mental health community.
But a spokesperson for the Washington Department of Health cautioned people to not jump to conclusions, as the investigation ‘doesn’t necessarily mean that disciplinary action will occur, just that we are moving to the stage of an investigation.’
Investigation: Bachelor alum Taylor Nolan is under investigation by the Washington state Department Of Health after multiple complaints stemming from racist tweets made by the mental health counselor in the past. She also shared a troubling post suggesting people with personality disorders commit suicide
In process: A spokesperson cautioned people to not jump to conclusions, as the investigation ‘doesn’t necessarily mean that disciplinary action will occur, just that we are moving to the stage of an investigation’
Prior to this tweet scandal, Nolan – who first appeared on Nick Viall’s season of The Bachelor – hadn’t been the subject of any complaints since she was licensed in 2016.
Spokesperson Gordon MacCracken added that there is no timeline for the investigation, nor could he ‘predict an outcome.’ The department would not comment further.
According to previous reports, the most severe punishment would be ‘license suspension or revocation,’ but ‘dismissal or withdrawal of charges’ are also a possibility.
Nolan, whose mother is white and father is African American, came under fire in February after offensive directed at several different groups were exposed.
In the posts she complained about ‘loud a** black people,’ said that ‘#Asian problem aren’t s**t’ because she didn’t find stereotypes like ‘they have a small penis’ particularly offensive, tells Indian men to ‘shower’ ‘before going to the club,’ among other insults.
Inexcusable: Last month a slew of racist and otherwise offensive tweets from Nolan’s past were unearthed by fans of the ABC dating competition
In the wrong line of work: Some of the mental health counselor’s most concerning tweets signaled a callousness and disrespect for the mental health community she is supposedly responsible for helping, suggesting people with personality disorders commit suicide in one particularly upsetting Twitter reply
Some of the mental health counselor’s most concerning tweets signaled a callousness and disrespect for the mental health community she is supposedly responsible for helping.
Replying to someone else’s tweet that said ‘#WeWontWorkIf I have ever diagnosed you with a personality disorder,’ Nolan said: ‘Treatment: SUICIDE.’
Nolan addressed the outrage via a 30-minute apology video back earlier this month, saying: ‘My tweets from ten years ago are s****y, they suck, they were wrong, and are hurtful.’
No excuses: Nolan addressed the outrage via a 30-minute apology video back earlier this month, saying: ‘My tweets from ten years ago are s****y, they suck, they were wrong, and are hurtful’
‘I want to be clear that they don’t take away from the work I do today, they are literally how I got here to doing this work.’
Since the scandal, Nolan has been largely offline.
Last week she shared a simple Instagram saying she was ‘Taking time and space for refocusing and reflecting.’
Later in the week Nolan posted a lengthy caption about stopping Asian hate under an image that said ‘We are not safe until we are all safe.’
She did not address her own past of anti-Asian comments with the post, however.
Loud silence: Later in the week Nolan posted a lengthy caption about stopping Asian hate under an image that said ‘We are not safe until we are all safe,’ but she did not address her own history of anti-Asian comments