Katie Thurston‘s revealing a traumatic incident to the complete globe … telling followers she was raped and the justice system has failed her.

The “Bachelorette” — who starred on Year 17 of the current — broke the information in an Instagram post Friday the place she shared items of her story along with an stock of sources for other people who’ve skilled sexual assault and rape.

Thurston says she’s not capable to dive into person particulars, even so she describes she identified as 911 to report the incident … and, an officer took her to get a sexual assault forensic evaluation.

Katie says she felt like a “susceptible minimal one” all via the study course of … and credit history the nurse and advocate for serving to her by way of the examination.

Thurston says the bundle took 4 months to be processed … in the course of which period of time she consulted with a therapist and search additional about how a particular person can navigate discussions with detectives as they seemed into her claims.

KT suggests she handed above every single and just about every element to investigators — texts, cellphone determine information, DNA, motion pictures and her personal physique — and, but she says her quest for justice was stopped not straight. She does not make distinct what she suggests by that.

The reality star suggests this is not a decline for just her … it is “one additional reduction in a broken technique. Adjust happens in failure and the justice procedure unsuccessful me. And carries on to are unsuccessful 1000’s each and every solitary day.”

She finishes her post with an uplifting notion to followers … telling them they’re valued, robust — and, most significantly, she believes them.

Katie completed up with Blake Moynes in her season of “The Bachelorette” even although the 2 broke up in 2021. She then dated John Hershey who furthermore appeared on her time previously than they crack up in 2022.