Sydney Hightower's Former Classmate Just Called Her Out As A 'Bully' And 'Mean Girl'

From Women's Health

• The drama on The Bachelor ramped up when Monday night's episode wrapped.

• One of Sydney Hightower's classmates shared photos and spilled tea from her high school yearbook, showing the contestant winning school pageants.

• Twitter users believe the photos discredit her story of bullying, which won Peter Weber over on their one-on-one date.

When The Bachelor schedules extended episodes, you better believe it means a double dose of drama. Monday night delivered on screen (the crying, the emotional instability, the waterfalls) and off. Actually, the drama really took off on Twitter when one of Sydney Hightower's classmates, Jacie Clark (whose handle is @jc_me_rollin) shared photos from her Tuscaloosa County High School yearbook and called Sydney a "mean girl" and a "bully."

According to the yearbook photos, Sydney won the title of "Upperclassmen Top Beauty." Clark shared multiple snapshots of Sydney and fellow famous classmate Hannah Brown from the yearbook, with Sydney wearing a sparkling crown and a sash.

Why does this even matter on a season filled with pageant queens? Well, Sydney revealed she was bullied growing up on her one-on-one date with Peter on Monday's episode. It was so bad, she said, that she ate lunch in the bathroom stalls in high school.

Clark's Twitter and yearbook photos offers an alternative perspective on Sydney's high school experience. She wrote: "The tea cup has runneth ova."

Sydney first responded publicly on Twitter: "You’ll do anything you can to fit in, and I tried. I won pageants because of my 'looks' and I was in clubs because I wanted a scholarship to get into college . Not because I was accepted by my peers."

She continued adding more details in follow-up tweets. "Any one from my highschool [sic] want to pull out the videos of girls stuffing my locker with Oreo cookies , vandalizing my home, shoving me in the hall ways? Teachers literally referring to me as a halfbreed? Calling my mother the worst names I’ve ever heard in my life? I doubt that."

Things got even more intense when Sydney direct messaged Clark on Twitter and shared screenshots of the private exchange on her main feed. Sydney did so to "set the record straight" on Twitter: "I’ve been through so much from the town I grew up in and will not allow my story, or others to be deminished [sic] because of one of the same girls, with the same mindsets as the people who terrorized me. Not happening."

The screenshots show Sydney's original message to Clark. She wrote: "Shame on you. Shame on you for spreading hate and trying to construe something on the internet to hurt another human begin. I don’t know you, but I do remember you from Highschool [sic] and your social group did not care for me. And that’s okay. Because I would never want the approval of hateful, racist human beings. I’m not sure of the things you have through in your life. But I do know mine. And the things I’ve been through my whole life for having an African American father and a white mother, the struggles I have had to face, the hate that I have had to fight just because of the fact that I am bi racial [sic] are astounding. I did eat my lunch in the bathroom stalls, I did have to wipe 'n— lover' and 'half breed' and 'monkey nose' off my car windows and pavement. But you will never know those struggles, and that’s a blessing. I feel sad for you, and I’m sorry that you have not grown as a human being since high school [sic]. I hope you know that I will be praying for you and I hope you know this will not affect me, but it did hurt me that you would try to diminish my pain, and my struggles because of the beauty pageants and clubs I entered into, to just try to be accepted. You are welcome to screen shot [sic] this and share it as well if you see fit. Have a great night."

Sydney only shared her original DM, however Clark later tweeted screenshots of the continued conversation. "I have so many people from school recalling you as a bully. A huge one," Clark tweeted above the screenshots.

In her reply to Sydney, Clark wrote, per the screenshots: "You were one of the biggest bullies in county high. I distinctly remember you. I haven't said one negative thing. I've only shared the photos in the yearbook. I have never discredited your racial stories. I know you and your friends destroyed each other's stuff back and forth. Shame on YOU for back tracking [sic] most of your high school experience and trying to crap all over your peers and highschool [sic]. You DEF have yet to grow from highschool [sic] I see. Protruding this story of how your everyday was so terrible. I remember trying to be friends with you and you were a MEAN girl. I can own up to my highschool [sic] experience, it’s sad that you cannot own up to YOUR part in it.”

Clark added in a second message to Sydney, "Everyone who has messaged me has had the same experience with you. Let that sink in."

Women's Health has reached out to Jacie Clark and Sydney Hightower for comment.

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