Thanks for the replies!
When I run python --version I see 3.8.12 as expected. I ended up upgrading to Rasa 3.0 which fixed the issue.
As a summary of what happened:
I was on version Rasa 2.7.0 and while setting up another ML project unrelated to Rasa Tensorflow became updated which caused Rasa to throw this error when I ran my Rasa project:
[AttributeError: Can’t get attribute ‘FeatureArray’ on <module ‘rasa.utils.tensorflow.model_data’…
I didn’t have virtual environments set for both projects so paths and libraries got mixed up, I cleaned everything up and created virtual environments for both projects but the problem for Rasa remained & upgrading Rasa fixed it.
Thanks