Clayton Echard Hits Back at Claims He Said the “Same Thing” to All His Finalists
Clayton Echard is doing the inevitable interview rounds after the absolute mess that was his fantasy suite dates, and it looks like he isn’t here for claims in Bachelor Nation that he basically said the same thing to all three of his finalists.
Speaking to Kaitlyn Bristowe on her Off the Vine podcast (via Us Weekly), Clayton said, “I compartmentalized, I guess, too well to the point where I was just all in with these women. And that was the thing people said…‘He’s saying the same thing to multiple women.’”
Just to recap, here is Clayton telling Susie he’s falling for her....
And here’s Clayton telling Rachel the same thing in so many words...
And here he is telling Gabby the same thing as well...
“I’m only one person. I mean, I don’t have a different vocabulary depending on who I’m talking to,” Clayton went on to say. “So I felt these feelings of love and they were genuine—if anything I felt so similar with every one of the connections that that’s why the same things were being said, because I felt that way genuinely.”
I mean, sure...but it’s presumably going to be hard for whoever wins his season (spoilers on that over here) to feel special watching this back when he said the same musing about falling in love to three people in a row.
Anyway, fortunately, Clayton did take some accountability regarding his conversation with Susie, although he denied claims that he was gaslighting her.
Speaking on the Almost Famous podcast, Clayton said, “It’s tough because I’ve seen what everyone’s saying and they’re using some pretty descriptive terms, some pretty heavy-hitting terms that I couldn’t disagree with more. But I understand that it appears that way. I don’t agree that I was gaslighting because I looked that up, and it said gaslighting, the definition is to try and convince someone of a different reality than what is actually the true reality of the situation....Gaslighting in my eyes is something where it’s you have bad intentions, you’re trying to manipulate somebody, and I was not at all trying to do that. My reality was in my head at that point.”
Hmmm, this season’s live finale should be interesting.
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