The Bachelor’s Cassidy Timbrooks Explains ‘F–k’ Clayton Echard Video: ‘Totally My Bad’

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The standard villain’s apology. Cassidy Timbrooks made headlines well before Clayton Echard sent her home from The Bachelor, thanks to her social media outburst directed at him.

Four days after her exit aired, she tried to make amends for the drama.“Now that my time on The Bachelor is done, I want to briefly address the two videos that made the rounds on social media,” the season 26 contestant, 26, wrote via her Instagram Story on Friday, January 28. “First, they were never made public by me or intended to be seen publicly.

I posted those only to my close friends’ story on Instagram, where someone who I thought was my friend screen recorded them and sent them to a spoiler site.”Cassidy claimed that her tone was misconstrued by fans of the ABC franchise. “In those videos, I’m being intentionally over dramatic and satirical,” she continued. “The people who know me in real life get that, but I totally understand why people who’ve never met me would be like, wtf.”The executive assistant went on to clarify how she really feels about Clayton, 28, after lashing out at him. “I’m really embarrassed that those videos ended up everywhere,” she noted. “They don’t reflect my actual thoughts, or how I feel about Clayton.

I had a lot of respect for how kind to me Clayton was, actually.”Despite her intentions, Cassidy admitted that the videos were not in good taste. “This seems like a late acknowledgment, and I would have addressed them sooner but as you can probably imagine I was worried about accidentally spoiling anything else,” she concluded. “I thought it best to wait until after Mondays [sic] episode aired.