Clayton Echard Reflects On ‘The Bachelor’ In Emotional Post, Says He’s A ‘Work In Progress’

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Clayton Echard is sharing what he learned from his journey on reality TV. The 28-year-old “Bachelor” alumtook to Instagram on Tuesday to share an emotional reflection with his followers. “Suse took this picture of me one day before ‘After the Final Rose,'” Echard began the lengthy post, referring to Susie Evans as the photographer. “In this moment, I was at rock bottom.

I knew what was coming and realized my reality was much further from what I had ever expected. As I looked out the window, I questioned who I was?

What had I become? Where did everything go wrong? Why me?” READ MORE: 'The Bachelor': Susie Says She'd Reject a Proposal from Clayton If He Did This Echard, who came under fire during his season for falling for — and being intimate with — multiple women, went on to share that six months prior to this photo, he “was standing outside as the first limo pulled up and kept thinking to myself how I was so lucky to be in this position as The Bachelor.” However, six months later he “was staring out this window wondering how much worse things could get.” “But as I’ve reflected back on it all now since being out of the spotlight, I’ve had the ability to see what I couldn’t see before.

I was too busy trying to defend my actions and my character, instead of accepting full responsibility for not only what I had done, but for who all I hurt,” Echard continued. “Often, we are so concerned with explaining ourselves that we don’t realize the explanations sometimes hurt more than the actions.