Bachelor Clayton Echard and Susie Evans’ Honest Quotes About Their Relationship

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From The Bachelor to post-show life, Clayton Echard and Susie Evans’ journey has been anything but conventional.The season 26 lead’s relationships with his finalists blew up during the 2022 season when Evans called Echard sleeping with Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia a dealbreaker.

The former football player subsequently convinced Windey and Recchia to stay — saying that he loved all three women — but ultimately sent them home ahead of the final rose ceremony because he had the strongest feelings for Evans.“Just because I loved her the most, did not mean I had made a definitive answer that she was The One,” Echard said on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast in March 2022 after the finale aired. “I do believe everything happens for a reason.

And when she left, like, I said, ‘OK, I have these two incredible women here and I need to continue to pour into them because this is what apparently, exactly needed to happen.

So give these women your all and see if maybe you’ll end up walking outta here with one of ’em.’”While Evans briefly returned to the show, she didn’t accept Echard’s final rose.“To be honest with you, I knew she would show up ‘cause I knew it wasn’t her character not to show up.