Colton Underwood claims ‘Bachelor’ throws stars ‘to the wolves’ after filming

Colton Underwood has some advice for “The Bachelor” production team.

“I think listening to its former leads and listening to its contestants and also providing help for them when they need it after the show,” he said during “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” on Monday, when a fan asked how the dating show could improve.

“Because they really come in and change your life, and then sort of throw you to the wolves.”

Underwood, 30, left his season engaged to Cassie Randolph, 26, but the two called it quits in May 2020. He later came out as gay in an April 2021 interview with Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America”

Underwood previously addressed his complicated relationship with “Bachelor” producers while starring on Season 23.

“I realize, like, this is an entertainment business, it’s a business and you don’t take things personally, but I’m still gonna maintain a professional relationship with you,” Underwood told Us Weekly in April 2020.

“I think when the line started getting crossed, and I got told to be a ‘good little boy’ and ‘keep my mouth shut.’ Like, that’s when I was like, ‘You don’t get to say that.’”

The “Coming Out Colton” star isn’t the only Bachelor Nation alum to criticize the franchise, however.

During Hannah Brown’s season of “The Bachelorette,” winner Jed Wyatt faced accusations that he cheated on the “Dancing With the Stars” alum. Wyatt denied doing so, but fans were outraged that he allegedly broke her heart.

“… [The] facts are this, that yes, I was highly manipulated and from it deeply mentally affected from the show,” he wrote on his Instagram Stories in January 2021. “And two, no, I never cheated, ever, on [ex-girlfriend] Haley [Stevens] or Hannah.”

Wyatt’s statement came a day after his co-star and “Bachelor In Paradise” alum Dylan Barbour claimed producers have “nearly all control” over which contestants succeed and “purposely edit things to warrant bullying.”

“You gotta understand the game. They get paid off you doing s—t that warrants screen time,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet in January 2021. “It’s easy to make a bad person look worse, it’s hard to make a good person look bad.”

Former “Bachelorette” lead Rachel Lindsay, who was the first black lead in the franchise’s history, also called out the franchise on numerous occasions.

“I have come to the conclusion that if changes are not made on the inside and outside of the franchise, I will dissociate myself from it,” Lindsay wrote in June 2020.

Lindsay made headlines the following February when she interviewed host Chris Harrison. At the time, he defended “Bachelor” winner Rachael Kirkconnell amid racially insensitive social media posts and actions from her past that resurfaced. Subsequently, Harrison stepped down from the franchise.

ABC did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.