Lauren Bushnell Recalls Feeling ‘Tricked’ During Her ‘Bachelor’ Season Amid Clayton Echard’s Messy Finale

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No more rose-colored glasses. Lauren Bushnell has mixed feelings about Clayton Echard’s messy Bachelor finale after having a complicated experience on season 20 of the series.“There’s so much that I feel like that we don’t see,” Bushnell, 32, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, March 15, while promoting her new Sonoma Goods For Life® x Lauren Lane Collection at Kohl’s. “I was feeling really upset with Clayton that he did that [to Susie Evans].

The week prior to last week, you know, I just felt so bad. I was like, ‘What are you doing?’”The Oregon native, who got engaged to Ben Higgins during the season 20 finale in 2016, explained that her outlook on Clayton’s situation has now shifted.“I feel like he did the right thing in communicating [this week], although he didn’t do it perfectly,” Bushnell told Us, referring to Clayton’s choice to tell his remaining finalists, Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey, that he was “intimate” with both of them during the fantasy suite dates. “Because he left out kind of a big detail of that.

He loved someone the most, which should have [been] included that aspect of it.”During part 1 of the Bachelor finale on Monday, March 14, viewers watched the Missouri native, 28, introduce the final two ladies to his family.

However, what he didn’t disclose to the finalists — but told his loved ones — was that his heart was still with Susie, 28, despite her exit one week prior.Although Bushnell was conflicted over how Clayton went about dealing with his feelings the past few episodes, she told Us that she thought it was “really respectful” of him to tell the women the full fantasy suite situation and let them make their own choice as to what happens next in their relationships.The designer, who called