March 16, 2022 • bachelor insider
Clayton Echard & Susie Evans Reveal What They Would Have Done Differently, Plus: What They Regret
Bachelor Nation fans saw the high highs and low lows of Clayton Echard and Susie Evans’ relationship over the course of Season 26 of “The Bachelor.”
The two found love, but after some heartbreaking conversations, they went their separate ways at the end of the show.
At last night’s “After the Final Rose,” the couple revealed that they got back together after the show and are starting their life now as a unit.
Clayton and Susie stopped by the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast to discuss their difficult conversations in Iceland and what they would’ve done differently after watching it back.
Susie started off by saying, “I think I could’ve done so many things differently, and we both feel that way in general. We both have acknowledged the places where we could have done better and the places that we did well. For me, there’s a lot of things I would’ve changed, but specifically during that conversation I would’ve asked why he was freaking out because it caught me so off guard.”
She continued, “Now, we understand where his mind was at, and he was worried I just played him to get to this point. At that moment, I didn’t understand why he was freaking out, but I didn’t ask that. I was just trying to explain that this wasn’t fake but instead of asking more questions to get to the bottom of what was going through his mind, we were both just in this panic mode.”
So Susie shared, “We were both just totally blindsided by each other and so I would’ve asked more questions, been more direct, and communicated better overall.”
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And Clayton agreed with a lot of Susie’s sentiments and shared his own regrets from their conversation.
The former Bachelor explained where his head went, saying, “I just regret the way I handled it when I became frustrated and raised my voice. It would’ve been great if I could’ve just taken 20 minutes and stepped aside to take a breather. My head was racing, and I did have these dark thoughts that she was just here to be the next Bachelorette.”
Clayton shared that his experience with some of the other women earlier in his season made him worry that Susie was just playing him.
He said, “I let those thoughts creep in, and you could see it in my face that I was in a bad headspace at that point. From there, people saw my actions and I do regret the way that I handled that. I was just in disbelief and trying to make sense of what it was. I couldn’t see her perspective at the time. I do see it now, but I kind of got into a bad mindset where I made assumptions.”
Clayton also revealed why making assumptions was also another major regret of his.
He said, “That was one of my other biggest regrets. I assumed that all the women expected me to be intimate with them and fall in love with multiple women, and it’s crazy to even say that would be an assumption, but I thought in this environment it was known. That was wrong. I assumed everyone was on the same page, but nobody was.”
To hear more of Clayton and Susie’s conversation on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast, check out the full episode below.