Kelsey Anderson Assures Fans She and Joey Graziadei Are ‘Good’ After Admitting to ‘Personal’ Issues

Fans feared for Joey Graziadei and Kelsey Anderson after she admitted to dealing with “personal” issues, but she made sure to set the record straight about the state of their relationship.

“Haven’t been on social media much the past couple days due to personal reasons but hoping everyone used their privilege to vote today or mailed in their votes,” Kelsey, 26, wrote on her Instagram Story on Tuesday, November 5, along with a selfie of herself holding up a glass of wine. “And now we all cross our fingers and wait … and maybe have a glass of wine … or the whole bottle.”

On the next slide, she added some reassurance, writing, “Don’t want yall to get the wrong idea. Joey and I are good.”

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Joey, 29, and Kelsey’s relationship has been the subject of scrutiny while he’s been comPeting on Dancing With the Stars the last several weeks. Kelsey has dealt with an iNFLux of comments from viewers wondering whether she’s jealous that her fiancé is intimately dancing with his professional partner, Jenna Johnson.

“So many people are like, ‘Kelsey, why is Jenna touching your man like that?’ And honestly, I don’t know … maybe because it’s her job?” the New Orleans native said in a September TikTok video. “Maybe because she’s a professional dancer and she has to touch him to dance. I don’t know. That’s my understanding of it. I’m just so tired of everyone being like, ‘Kelsey’s so strong. I could not do this. I could not watch this if I was Kelsey.’”

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She also pointed out that Joey was “dating 31 other women” on The Bachelor when she first met him. “I have to have a certain level of security to go through all that and Joey and I are still together and strong after a year of all of that craziness,” Kelsey continued. “Joey also has to be the type of man to give me the reassurance that I need and deserve in our relationship. So we are all good in the hood.”

Joey weighed in on the controversy while appearing on the “Almost Famous” podcast on September 27 and admitted that he purposely asked for a pro partner in a “successful and Healthy” relationship. “It was something I thought about coming in,” he shared. “I said I wanted to be in a situation that I was comfortable [with], that I didn’t have to worry about a lot of noise.”

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Jenna, 30, has been married to fellow DWTS pro Val Chmerkovskiy since 2019. “I didn’t want there to be any chance of noise with this because I know that comes with the show and the territory sometimes,” Joey added. “And I was in such a great place in my life with everything that Kelsey and I have built that I didn’t want to have a distraction.”

Kelsey and Joey got engaged on season 28 of The Bachelor, which filmed in the fall of 2023. They went public with their relationship after the show’s finale in March.