Rachel Lindsay has deleted her Instagram after receiving an overwhelming amount of 'rude and hateful' comments from disgruntled Bachelor fans. The move comes two weeks after her controversial interview with Bachelor host Chris Harrison, who made the decision to step aside from the show after defending contestant Rachael Kirkconnell's past racist behavior.  On Friday, her Higher Learning co-host, Van Lathan, revealed the 35-year-old former Bachelorette 'disabled her' account due to cruel harassment.  'She did it because that's how much hate she's getting from Bachelor fans who are spamming her with all kinds of rude and hateful things to say,' the podcaster, 40, said in an Instagram video.   He continued: 'Y'all have got to get a f**king life. Seriously.' 'Rachel is not responsible for Chris Harrison, a 49-year-old man who can't read the room in these 2021 times. She's not responsible for that,' Lathan fired. 'It's not her job to make excuses or provide cover for somebody who doesn't understand what the f**k triggers people in today's world. It's not. You're going after the wrong person.'  'Rachel, we love you, we're with you,' Lathan concluded the video. He captioned the footage: 'Leave Rachel the f**k alone. This harassment is going too far.'Lathan, then, asked Harrison directly if he was 'okay with people getting at Rachel to the point she can’t even exist on IG.'  'Is anyone from the entire Bachelor Nation going to stand up and condemn this harassment of a Black woman?' he inquired. 'Yo it’s just a fucking TV SHOW, y’all need to relax for real.' After Lindsay's interview with Harrison, he came under fire for downplaying Kirkconnell's past bigoted actions, including attending an antebellum party on a plantation in 2018. Kirkconnell also allegedly liked several offensive social media posts featuring Confederate flags, racist costumes and friends wearing Make America Great Again hats favored by supporters of former President Donald Trump.   Lindsay previously made history as the first Black Bachelorette in 2017. Last week, she announced she wanted to be finished with the Bachelor franchise and would be cutting ties with the organization as soon as her contract was over on her podcast. 'As far as me, I’m f***ing tired. I’m exhausted. I have truly had enough,' she said. My entire reason for doing The Bachelorette — and I was lucky it worked out for me in the most beautiful way, in finding [husband] Bryan [Abasolo] — is that I wanted to be representative as a Black woman to this audience. And I wanted to pave the way for more people to have this opportunity,' she said.  'In some ways, that has happened. I wanted the franchise to be better. I have a love-hate relationship with it. I’m connected to it.'She added: 'How much more do I want to be affiliated with this? How much more can I take of things like this? I said I was going to leave if they didn’t have leads of color. Okay, they did that, and they made some other changes. They hired a di