RACHEL LINDSAY TELLS ALL Bachelorette SMACKDOWN!

THE BACHELOR FRANCHISE IS ONCE AGAIN UNDER FIRE AS FORMER STAR RACHEL LINDSAY SPILLS DIRTY SECRETS.

RACHEL LINDSAY is done with the Bachelor franchise — but first, she’s telling all. Her not-so-rosy picture of the dating competition comes four years after her gig as the first black lead of the Bachelorette — and just weeks after Chris Harrison officially exited the show. In February, she’d been dismayed when the longtime host of the ABC hit was blasé about Bachelor winner Rachael Kirkconnell’s racially insensitive past during Rachel’s interview with him for Extra. “I was exhausted,” she said. “I needed to step away.”

Not, however, before speaking her truth. Always vocal in her criticism of the 34-season show’s lack of diversity, Rachel has come out with explosive claims about the show’s racism, blatant stereotyping and behind-the-scenes manipulations — and producers are scrambling. “They were already reeling from the Chris Harrison scandal and were hoping for quiet while the dust settles,” an insider tells Star.

“Instead, they’ve got another public-relations disaster.”