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

The “Bachelorette” — who starred on Season 17 of the current — broke the data in an Instagram submit Friday the place she shared parts of her story alongside a list of sources for others who’ve expert sexual assault and rape.

Thurston says she’s not capable of dive into explicit particulars, nevertheless she explains she generally known as 911 to report the incident … and, an officer took her to acquire a sexual assault forensic examination.

Katie says she felt like a “vulnerable baby” all through the course of … and credit score the nurse and advocate for serving to her by means of the examination.

Thurston says the package deal took 4 months to be processed … all through which interval she consulted with a therapist and browse additional about how one can navigate conversations with detectives as they appeared into her claims.

KT says she handed over each half to investigators — texts, cellphone title information, DNA, films and her private physique — and, however she says her quest for justice was stopped in a roundabout way. She doesn’t clarify what she means by that.

The reality star says this isn’t a loss for merely her … it’s “another loss in a broken system. Change happens in failure and the justice system failed me. And continues to fail 1000’s every single day.”

She ends her submit with an uplifting message to followers … telling them they’re valued, sturdy — and, most importantly, she believes them.

Katie ended up with Blake Moynes in her season of “The Bachelorette” though the two broke up in 2021. She then dated John Hershey who moreover appeared on her season sooner than they break up in 2022.