‘Bachelor’ Stars Clayton Echard & Susie Evans Split 6 Months After Finale: It’s ‘Painful’

Clayton Echard, 29, and Susie Evans, 29, are some nursing a breached heart. The erstwhile Bachelor stars announced their breakup via Instagram connected Sept. 23, and you amended drawback your tissues! In the post, they some wrote, “With incredibly dense hearts, we wanted to stock that we person decided to spell our abstracted ways. For anyone who has ever loved, knows this was a achy determination to marque and not 1 taken lightly.”

“We recognize that determination volition apt beryllium a batch of questions astir this determination — social media is decidedly a item reel and overmuch of our experiences unneurotic we person kept backstage arsenic I’m definite astir tin understand,” their lengthy connection went on. Claysie (as fans called the duo) went connected to authorities that contempt the galore affirmative moments determination inactive has “been a important magnitude of pain.” And that they “were not prepared for the outer forces that hindered our quality to not lone heal arsenic individuals but besides arsenic a couple.”

Regardless, they are some “focused connected continuing to enactment connected ourselves, truthful we tin beryllium the champion mentation of ourselves.” The TV personalities added that though it is “not an casual time” they volition inactive “support” 1 different post-split. “Although Claysie is nary more, we anticipation that our communities tin enactment america individually arsenic we determination guardant with emotion and respect for each other. Thank you to each of you that supported our relationship. It means truthful overmuch much than you volition ever know,” their joint-post concluded.

Clayton Echard & Susie Evans person officially breached up arsenic of Sept. 23. (ABC)

Susie and the erstwhile Bachelor prima met during Season 26 of the deed ABC dating series. They did not initially extremity up unneurotic connected the show, but really got together aft the melodramatic finale. During his season, Clayton had told each 3 finalists that helium was successful emotion with them. The finalists included Susie, Gabby Windey, 31, and Rachel Recchia, 26.

The Virginia Beach autochthonal had told him that she was not comfy that helium was intimate with the different 2 women, which resulted successful a blowup betwixt them. Clayton yet sent Susie home, but past wanted one much chance with her. Susie was successful agreement, but lone if Clayton chopped ties with Gabby and Rachel. “I was truly shocked by however everything ended,” she said during the finale. “The mode you treated me, the mode you turned, that’s erstwhile my mentality connected you changed. I couldn’t adjacent support myself. I felt truthful vulnerable. I felt similar that nighttime you made maine question my interior voice, my intuition, everything. I felt similar an atrocious person. It was humiliating, if I’m being honest. You made maine consciousness incorrect and atrocious and that was the heartbreak.” Susie yet rejected him during the last roseate ceremony, and they did not officially give it different shot until aft the play ended. After each the drama, it mightiness beryllium champion that this narration dissolved amicably.