The Bachelor’s Clayton Echard and Susie Evans: A Timeline of Their Relationship

usmagazine.com:

Clayton Echard and Susie Evans‘ relationship on The Bachelor seemed like a fairy tale — but the two were seemingly unable to find their happy ending.The former football player abruptly sent Susie home on the March 8, 2022, episode of the hit series during their Fantasy Suite date after the videographer confessed that she was uncomfortable with him sleeping with the other two contestants — Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia — one week before potentially proposing to her.“In knowing that there’s an engagement literally in a week, and there are things I can’t compromise,” Susie explained, before asking if he also told them that he loved them. “If I’m sharing your love with somebody else, I don’t think I would be comfortable [saying yes].”After confessing that he had, indeed, told both Gabby and Rachel that he was falling in love (and that he had been intimate with both women), Clayton attempted to defend himself. “I was having feelings of love with [them] and so I slept with this person because I wanted to see how the psychical connection is.

If you were in love with somebody, you would just explore that,” he said. Though Susie noted that she “understands” his side of things, she was still struggling to reconcile that fact with her feelings.When the Virginia native ultimately confessed that she couldn’t be with him after his revelation, Clayton accused her of not wanting to “fight” for their relationship and walked her out.

At the time, the Bachelor stated that he had given up on finding love on the show but the Missouri native later revealed that he regretted his emotional outburst.“One of the greatest things that I learned was the power of emotion,” Clayton told Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti on their “Almost Famous”