Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos Spends Husband’s Demise Anniversary with Chock Chapple

Joan Vassos is popping a bittersweet anniversary right into a celebratory second.

On Sunday, Jan. 19, the Golden Bachelorette star, 62, celebrated the fourth anniversary of her late husband John‘s loss of life by seeing Left on Tenth on Broadway along with her new fiancé, Chock Chapple, by her aspect. She mirrored on the second in a submit shared on Instagram.

“What an evening for @chockchapple and I at our first Broadway present as a pair!” she started within the submit’s caption. “@leftontenth was phenomenal and we bought to go backstage after to satisfy the celebs: Julianna Margulies, Peter Gallagher, Peter Francis James, and Kate MacCluggage!”

The carousel of photographs she posted included pictures of Vassos and Chapple smiling alongside the Left on Tenth solid. The fact star additionally admitted that the Broadway play “actually hit residence.”

“At present is the 4th anniversary of John’s passing and these proficient actors captured the emotions I had the times and years after that horrible day,” she continued within the caption. “It was a good looking story about permitting your self to fall in love once more after loss in your golden years.”

“There’s all the time a light-weight ultimately and theirs have been brilliant as all of us cheered for them as they took their bows! Thanks to the solid and group at ‘Left On Tenth’ for an evening we’ll always remember!” she concluded.

Earlier than Vassos and Chapple discovered love on the inaugural season of The Golden Bachelorette, she was married to her late husband John for 32 years. He died in 2021 from pancreatic most cancers.

In November 2024, Vassos opened up about how she confronted unresolved emotions of grief whereas concurrently pursuing love on the courting present.

“I actually struggled with that in the course of the season,” she informed PEOPLE. “The Bachelor provides you entry to psychiatrists which can be truly on the mansion with you on the present, and so I did that. I truly had an appointment with them and we talked about what it could be, why it was so arduous for me to maneuver on on this journey and that I felt like I used to be nonetheless in love with John and I by no means wouldn’t be in love with him. They usually’re like, ‘Properly, that is fantastic.’”

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“They stated, ‘Image it like you might have a balloon in every hand. One is John and one is that this different individual that you’ve got emotions for, and you do not have to let go of this one to have this one additionally,’” she continued. “There’s room in your coronary heart and in your reminiscence for a couple of individual.'”

She added, “I simply wanted to listen to that it was okay. I did not should not love John anymore, and I did not know that.”

The Golden Bachelorette is now streaming on Hulu.