‘The Bachelor’: Clayton Echard Says He Regretted Signing On To The Show

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Clayton Echard‘s “Bachelor” journey hasn’t always been easy. The current franchise lead appeared on the latest episode of Nick Viall‘s “The Viall Files” podcast, and revealed that he regretted signing on to the show when it started airing on TV. “I think the first three weeks of the show airing, I definitely thought that, because you just don’t know what to expect going into it,” he said of regretting his decision to become the Bachelor, immediately after appearing on Michelle Young‘s season of ‘The Bachelorette‘. “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,” Clayton explained. “… Having that reassurance, I didn’t get that.” Because he didn’t know what to expect from the process, Clayton initially thought that he would grow on viewers as his season aired, but it didn’t exactly turn out that way. “I thought, ‘This is going to be great.

Everyone’s going to come around, start seeing my personality,’ and people weren’t,” he lamented. “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.” For Clayton, the ensuing 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,” he admitted, before explaining why he doesn’t let the naysayers bother him anymore. “The