Clayton Echard Takes 'Full Responsibility' For Bachelor Mess In New Post

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Former lead of The Bachelor and controversial Bachelor Nation figure Clayton Echard is coming to terms with and finally taking responsibility for the impact his decisions had during his season. Throughout The Bachelor's 26 seasons there have been many unfavorable leads, but none that started out as hopeful as Clayton. While Clayton wasn't the most interesting Bachelor, he wasn't considered the worst either. That is until fantasy suite week. Clayton told all three women he was in love with them and even was intimate with the first two, Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey. When the last one, Susie Evans, was hurt by his previous actions, he all but blamed her for what he did.

After telling the other women what he had done, Clayton convinced them to stay claiming he could see a future with both of them. Only for the Bachelor lead to realize two days later he actually loved Susie "the most" and wanted to end things with the women and pursue her instead. He did just that, and it didn't go over well with Bachelor Nation or Rachel and Gabby. They were left so heartbroken and humiliated by Claytons actions that as reparations ABC made both of them dual lead for the next season of The Bachelorette. Meanwhile, Clayton, and his now girlfriend Susie, have been doing damage control.

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The former lead has been justifying his actions and sidestepping responsibility since the season aired, but in a new Instagram post, Clayton is finally owning up to his mistakes. "Suse took this picture of me 1 day before After the Final Rose," Clayton commented on Susie's photo. «In this moment, I was at rock bottom.» The aforementioned picture only shows the back of Clayton, as he