Jenn Tran’s time on Dancing With the Stars was a healing experience, especially thanks to her partner, Sasha Farber.
Tran, 26, was announced as part of the season 33 cast just hours after her dramatic split from Devin Strader aired on The Bachelorette in September. In a recent interview with People, Tran credited Farber, 40, for being a guiding light amid the breakup backlash.
“He kept reminding me that it’s the stuff that’s not online that really matters, It’s your friends and family who know you the best that really matters,” she shared. “Right after the breakup, I was going through a lot of stuff being said online and stuff being spilled out, and I had to just turn my phone off.”
Tran explained, “Sasha really helped ground me and tell me that it’s my friends and family who really matter at the end of the day and everything’s going to blow over on social media and just keep doing me because, at the end of the day, I only have myself, right?”
During The Bachelorette’s September 3 finale and After the Final Rose special, it was revealed that Tran and Strader, 28, broke up after getting engaged on the show, with Tran claiming he began “pulling away” and eventually ended things over the phone.
Strader later shared his side of the story by posting screenshots of his texts with Tran via social media, which she wasn’t happy about. “I have no idea why someone would do this, let alone someone I was engaged to, [and] release private texts between us two,” she said during a September episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. “When you get engaged to somebody [or] when you’re dating somebody, your first thought is never, ‘Oh, my gosh, these texts might be blasted for the whole world to see.’ Like, that is such an invasion of privacy.”
Tran and Farber quickly formed a tight bond while competing on DWTS season 33, sparking romance rumors with their chemistry on and off the ballroom floor. The pair were eliminated during the show’s Halloween Nightmares episode on October 29 but have still remained friends.
Farber recently found himself in the middle of Tran and Strader’s breakup drama. In response to an Instagram comment which read, “Jenn found a great guy his name is Sasha,” Strader wrote, “That’s a girls [sic] name.”
Farber reacted to Strader’s remark in the comments of a TikTok post on Sunday, November 10, replying, “Wow🤦🏻♂️.”
Tran didn’t shed any more light to People on the status of her relationship with Farber, but she did praise him for helping her become more “detail-oriented” during her time on DWTS. “Also, he’s just such an amazing guy to have around while I was going through so much,” she gushed. “To have such a good human and a good friend throughout the whole thing, I really feel like it was such a healing process for me.”
Jenn Tran and Sasha Farber on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’
She also teased a potential return to the DWTS ballroom before the end of the season, stating, “I’m still going to do some dance classes — and hopefully come back for the finale and do a little dance or something with Sasha.”
