How Does ‘The Bachelor’ End? Everything Clayton Echard, Jesse Palmer, ABC Execs and More Have Said

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Bachelor Nation, prepare for another messy ending. Clayton Echard, Jesse Palmer and more have been promising a dramatic finale to season 26 for weeks — and it’s finally (almost) here.The 28-year-old Missouri native’s journey hit a breaking point during the fantasy suites episodes on March 8 after he admitted to Susie Evans that he slept with — and said he was falling in love with — both Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia. Clayton subsequently sent Susie home after she expressed concerns about being ready for an engagement once she was informed of his actions with the other women.“I remember the first day I went in, I said, ‘I will not fall in love with multiple people.’ And, like, I was so serious about it.

And then the journey began, and I was just battling with it mentally. I’m like, ‘No, no, there’s no way,’” Clayton exclusively told Us Weekly before the season premiered in January. “[Then] I was like, you know what, quit fighting these feelings because if you do fight the feelings, you’re gonna hold back and then that’s gonna cause these women to potentially put up their walls.

One day it hit me, and I was like, ‘I’m in, you know, [I’m] falling in love with multiple women.’ And I kind of started laughing in disbelief.

I don’t know if it was a nervous — I think it was a nervous laugh. But you know what, I realized, like, ‘You can’t fight these feelings, you have to allow them to come out.’”The problem, however, is his relationship with Susie crumbled once she knew about his feelings and based on the promos for the “rose ceremony from hell,” Gabby and Rachel don’t take it well either.“It was upsetting for the women to hear it and rightfully so,” Clayton told Us. “I understand that.