James and Kirkconnell dated for four years prior to their shocking breakup. They left his season of The Bachelor as a couple in 2020, but when photos of her attending an antebellum plantation-themed party surfaced online, controversy arose and they separated. They rekindled their relationship weeks later and had seemed on the verge of a potential engagement.
Kirkconnell said on Call Her Daddy that amid their split, James told her, “There were just qualities about me that he worries about having in a wife. Like at the end of the day, there are things that we aren’t compatible with. And the whole accountability and saying sorry and all that was really the main thing.”
