Brooke continued on to say she also needed this time to grieve the death of her beloved sister.
"I've promised myself, Darv, my family and my angel sister that I'll take the time to heal. It will take more than a week but this is a start," she wrote.
"I hate to bring it up, but personally and mentally I've been disrupted by all the crap that came with Finale Week. We both have," she continued.
"I'm not a hostile person and literally do not have any hate in my heart. Everyone who watched the show, or was on the show cast and/or working as crew, will know that I put my hear and soul into it and it meant a lot for me to open myself up so vulnerably like that. Not only that but for what it meant for the LGBTQIA+ and First Nations Community to have that display of representation.
"Which moves onto my new point. The hardest point. For that to be tainted ONCE again by 1) What I thought was a close friend. 2) Another white woman displaying what white privilege looks like. 3) A very clear display of narcissism.
"Hurts me. Literally pains me," she continued. "I've reached out to this person to resolve this 'conflict' which in fact, classic naive me, adult went to this person to communicate openly about the layers of complexity that this persons actions show and take away from NOT only me but what it meant for a queer woman of colour. If this wasn't me, I'd still have this stance."
"You guys asked for my comment. There it is. Now go give them more air time which is what this is exactly about. "
Brooke later followed up on her statement by sharing a response from someone else on Instagram, responding to commenters who were questioning the "white privilege" comments.
Re-posting someone's story that read: "So many posts and questions about Brooke's comment about white privilege and how it upset her about Abbie Chatfield hard launching her relationship with The Bachelorette finalist Konrad, this is the best explanation I've found so far."
The re-posted explanation, which can be seen below, said that the media is whitewashed and mainstream TV was never "designed for Blak people." They also said that Abbie knew "how big this was for the Indigenous community."
"Abbie is not dumb. She knew exactly what was going to happen if she posted that post before finale night, she knows her white privilege would have made her centre of attention and taken that away from the Blak community as a whole. That's where white privilege comes in."
Later on Thursday night, Abbie shared her own statement in response.
"This is to address the post made by Brooke," she wrote. "A month ago, a video of Konrad and I kissing was secretly captured by a patron and made public. Following this, Brooke and I had a conversation in which I apologised and expressed regret multiple times for our public affection as this was prior to Konrad’s exit from the show. Konrad had a similar conversation with Brooke.
"We met as a result of him coming along to a catch up with a mutual friend, the public setting was an accident. We absolutely should have waited to be in private as we are public figures and these are things we need to consider, but we didn’t. We also didn’t consider the possible ramifications of our actions.
"Immediately following this, we intentionally kept things quiet, and did not leave the house together in an effort to not be photographed out of respect for the show and to minimise press surrounding the spoiler of Konrad’s exit."
"When I uploaded a post confirming the numerous rumours, it was not with malice," Abbie wrote of her relationship launch, which was shared on the day of the finale.
"The morning of, I mistook a message from Brooke expressing her happiness for and approval of our relationship as a green light to upload a post. Following the post, Konrad received an equally supportive message. I see with hindsight that this assumption was naïve.
"I now understand the timing of publicly sharing our relationship should have been more considered and that is my fault. I acknowledge that impact outweighs intent. I didn’t take into account the Australian media landscape and the inherent privilege that I hold as a white woman.
"My actions had the potential to undermine the importance that this pivotal season of The Bachelorette holds to the First Nations and LGBTQIA+ Communities. This is an extremely important conversation to be having.
"In future, this will be at the forefront of my mind and I will continue to listen to and amplify minority communities, and endeavour to learn. I’m sorry.
It should come as no surprise that some fellow Bachie alums have shared their thoughts on the rift.
Alisha Aitken-Radburn, who starred with Brooke on The Bachelor Australia and Bachelor In Paradise Australia posted a selfie with Brooke on her Instagram stories shortly after the statement was released.
Simply adding a star emoji to her post, Alisha made it clear she was supporting her friend.
She also commented on Abbie's post to say: "This is great, hope you take her call now and have the conversation."
Angie Kent, who has said she "loves" Abbie, did question the timing in her Bachelorette recap for Yahoo! last week.
Calling it opportunistic, she wrote: "Announcing your spicy hot relationship THE DAY of your mate Brooke’s finale episodes was just a little bit can we say opportunistic?
"I love me some Abbie, don’t get this twisted, but she’s a very clever clogs when it comes to dropping it like it's hot and creating an absolute media circus of sorts. Sister has stated many a time that there is one thing she does not like to discuss and that is who she is dating.
"But on the day of her friends finale episode(s) she HARD launches the s--t of her brand spankin’ new relationship with someone from Brooke’s season. Of course we are going to eat this right up, It’s yummy. Power move vibes right there. I love a power move. But it wasn’t the day for it hey?"
