Rachel Lindsay accepts Chris Harrison’s latest apology

She’s accepting his rose — er, olive branch.

Rachel Lindsay has formally accepted Chris Harrison’s latest apology over their contentious “Extra” interview — on “Extra,” no less.

Asked by Billy Bush what she thought of Harrison’s defense of Lindsay after she was essentially forced off Instagram by militant “Bachelor Nation” factions, Lindsay said, “I wasn’t expecting him, you know, to address what’s been going on with me because this is the first time we’ve heard from Chris, but the fact that he did address the harassment and the hate that I’ve been receiving, I really appreciate that.”

Bush continued, asking, “As for the overall apology, do you accept it?”

“I do accept the apology,” Lindsay, 35, said, “and I think it’s important for me to say that because I haven’t really talked about, you know, Chris and the statement because I’m not trying to make this a Chris-versus-Rachel, but … this isn’t the first time he’s apologized to me — he apologized again on ‘GMA’ today and I do accept that and I think it’s important for me to say that because we need to move forward.”

“And for me, for us to move forward,” she continued, “I need to accept the apology, so we can all be better from this situation, which is what we want.”

Prompted by Bush as to what “moving forward” would look like, Lindsay answered, “There are a lot of issues that have come up because of this interview, and I think it’s important that we continue the conversation, we continue to move forward. And I think that’s the best thing that we can hope for out of all of this.”

It’s the latest development in the wartime Russian novel that is the post-pandemic “Bachelor/ette” franchise, which has variously seen a contestant exit a season early and eventually split with the person she left the season for and a contestant’s problematic past engagement with Antebellum signifiers surfaced.

It was the latter — Rachael Kirkonnell being the contestant — that Harrrison, 49, was connected with. He invoked the phrase “woke police” in an interview with Lindsay while questioning whether Kirkonnell’s participation in an Old South-themed party was a “bad look in 2018.” (Kirkconnell made her own apology.)

Harrison stepped away after stepping in it, but has said he’ll be back. Page Six is duly on tenterhooks.