Clare Crawley Reflects on ‘Crushing’ Dale Moss Relationship: ‘It Brought Out the Worst in Me’

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Clare Crawley is looking back on her “crushing” relationship with ex-fiancé Dale Moss.“I was in a relationship that was not healthy for me … it crushed me,” Crawley, 42, shared during an in-depth episode of the “Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast,” released on Tuesday, August 8. “That relationship brought out the worst in me.

It crushed me. It crushed my spirit. It crushed in so many ways who I was as a woman.”Crawley made history as the oldest Bachelorette in the franchise’s history when she was name as the season 16 lead 2020.

During her first night, she immediately connected with Moss, 34, and they got engaged less than two weeks later. After a brief split and subsequent reconciliation in early 2021, they called it quits for good that September.While she didn’t mention Moss by name, Crawley spoke about how her happiness “dipped low” after being on the show, in part, because she felt like she was “begging somebody for their love” in various ways.“It brought me down to a level that I didn’t want to be at, that I questioned myself,” Crawley continued of the relationship. “I thought I was asking for too much, I thought I was not a good communicator.

All these things.”Crawley went on to say that the tumultuous romance “paralyzed me temporarily,” recalling the “very last day” she spoke with Moss.“[It] was the day I was told that I was going to have to go say goodbye to my mother because she was really, really sick then,” she shared, referring to her mom, Lilia, who suffers from dementia. “He basically said, ‘That’s not my problem.’ I begged him to please not leave me in that moment.”It was at that moment Crawley reflected on the relationship and wondered why she was “begging this man to have human decency.”Moss, for his