Rachel Lindsay is speaking her mind about her Bachelor Nation journey and her infamous interview with Chris Harrison that led to his exit from the franchise. "I'm known for asking direct questions, relevant questions. And Chris was there to promote, nobody even knows - some drink maybe. So it was a perfect storm," Lindsay, 40, said on the Tuesday, December 3, episode of "Love It or Leave It Presents: Bravo, America!" podcast. "ABC PR wasn't on the call. Warner PR wasn't on the call. It was the PR of that drink company, so there's no one to stop him and say, 'You're going the wrong way.' It was 15 minutes of him ranting and raving." In 2021, Lindsay interviewed longtime Bachelor and Bachelorette host Harrison, 54, while she worked as correspondent for Extra. During the chat, the pair talked about Matt James, who was the show's first Black Bachelor. Lindsay brought up the drama of contestant Rachael Kirkconnell's attendance at a southern antebellum party while she was in college. (The style of party has received backlash over the years due to the era's affiliation with slavery and the Confederacy.) When bringing up the topic, Harrison slammed the criticism and defended Kirkconnell as a victim of cancel culture. Kirkconnell ultimately apologized and James chose her as his winner. Harrison was subsequently let go from the show, which led to a falling out between him and Lindsay. Keep scrolling for more revelations from Lindsay's podcast appearance: Rachel Lindsay Initially Turned Down 'Bachelorette' Rachel Lindsay shared that she didn't plan on becoming the first Black Bachelorette until she had a meaningful conversation with a fan. "Before I left Finland, [producers] said, 'We want you to be the Bachelorette.' And I said, 'No,' and I went back to work as an attorney. I just wanted my normal life back," she recalled before revealing what changed her mind. "And it was someone coming up to me saying, 'I hear you go far. My daughter looks like you. She loves the show. She'll see herself represented.' And I thought, 'Oh, my God, I have to. It's bigger than me.'" Rachel Lindsay Recalled Her 'Rampant' Drinking During Show Before The Bachelor and The Bachelorette changed their rules about how much alcohol the contestants could consume, Lindsay recalled how it was a "rampant" experience. "I'm waking up taking shots of Fireball in the morning," Rachel Lindsay said on the podcast. "I started my day off every morning with Fireball." Lindsay added that she was "fully aware" about how much alcohol she was consuming a day. "We were all adults, like, I was fully aware that I wanted to wake up in the morning and have a drink," she reflected. "It just was, for me, like a cup of coffee." Rachel Lindsay Told Nick Viall She Loved Him - And Immediately Laughed Rachel Lindsay shared that she knew she wasn't in love with Nick Viall while competing on season 21. However, she opted to say "I love you" to him while on their Fantasy Suite date. "But as I said, I love fireball. They really wanted me to say, 'I love you'. I said it, I laughed after," she recalled. "We start laughing, they cut it out." While Lindsay wasn't in love with Viall, she admitted she did care for him and they are still friends. "I cared for him. I really did. We're actually friends to this day, but I wasn't in love. I wasn't in love at all," she said. "And I said it, and I kind of laughed, and then I passed out in the Fantasy Suite because I had drank so much that day." The Low Down on Rachel Lindsay's Fantasy Suites Experience During season 21 of The Bachelor, Rachel Lindsay said she and Nick Viall were not intimate since she "passed out." "I never made it to the bedroom. I passed out," she recalled of her and Viall's Fantasy Suite date night. "And he was like, 'I carried you up the stairs and gave you Tylenol and put you in the bed.'" For Lindsay's season, she brought three of her suitors to the Fantasy Suites. Instead of being intimate, Lindsay used that opportunity to have candid off-camera conversations with the men. "I didn't have sex with everybody that I took to the Fantasy Suite, but I did take all three to the Fantasy Suite. But I had legitimate questions. I had concerns that my parents had [shared]. I had concerns," she reflected. "I had written down all these things I was asking, like, your credit score, your political affiliation. ... I really liked the men that I had brought there. [I was] very serious and intentional, the questions I asked, and it was over." Rachel Lindsay Needed 'Weeks' to Get Over Peter Kraus Breakup While Rachel Lindsay ultimately got engaged to Bryan Abasolo, she had a deep connection with Peter Kraus but broke things off due to his indecisiveness. "I knew I was breaking up with him. I walked in there knowing that was the one thing that I put my foot down with, was that I did not want two people to propose to me. So I remember the producers were like, 'If you don't do it tonight, they're both going to come to the whether they propo