Clayton Echard Admits He Regretted Signing On For 'The Bachelor' When It First Started

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Clayton Echard is opening up about what he thinks about The Bachelor these days. The 28-year-old caught up with another former Bachelor star, Nick Viall, on his podcast, and revealed that he really wasn’t prepared for the show at all, and regrets signing on. Click inside to read more… “I think the first three weeks of the show airing, I definitely [was regretting it], because you just don’t know what to expect going into it,” Clayton shared with Nick about the decision to go on The Bachelor after his run on Michelle Young‘s season of The Bachelorette.

He added, “Having no frame of reference, not really watching prior shows. I went straight from Michelle’s season to jumping into my own, so I didn’t have that time in between to really reach out to [past] Bachelor, Bachelorettes, ask them these questions that now I’m asking… having that reassurance, I didn’t get that.” Clayton also thought he was going to grow on people as his season aired, but it didn’t… “I thought, ‘This is going to be great.

Everyone’s going to come around, start seeing my personality,’ and people weren’t,” he said. “It seemed like no matter what they showed, even when they showed my personality, showed me being goofy, people would still say, ‘He has no personality.’ It’s like, what more do you want to see?

I’m showing you this on social media and you’re still wanting to find something to be mad about.” The social media comments “became this hopeless battle of you’re not going to make anybody happy.” “To me, I just wasn’t ready for the magnitude of criticism I was going to face,” Clayton shared, but then explained that he doesn’t let them get under his skin anymore. “The more I spoke with people, I realized this is kind of just how it is.