Clayton Echard Admits He & Rachel Recchia Discussed Dating Again 1 Year After ‘Bachelor’ Drama

Clayton Echard conscionable got precise candid astir his recent reunion with Rachel Recchia. In lawsuit you missed it, the former Bachelorette and Bachelor stars were spotted hanging retired successful a February TikTok posted by Rachel, which caused fans to wonderment what the heck was going on, arsenic the brace hadn’t communicated successful implicit a year. During his Feb. 27 impermanent quality connected the Here for the Right Reasons podcast, Clayton spilled the beverage connected everything that went down during the astonishment get-together.

Clayton Echard conscionable got candid astir his caller reunion with Rachel Recchia.(Sara Jaye Weiss/Rob Latour/Shutterstock)

“There was truthful overmuch healing there. That speech was truthful powerful,” said the 29-year-old writer of 180 Degrees: On Mental Health, Mindfulness, and Unlocking Self-Belief . “I walked distant from that experience, and I conscionable retrieve reasoning like, ‘Man, this conscionable felt truthful rewarding.’”

He added, “And I’m conscionable truthful blessed to cognize that adjacent idiosyncratic similar her — aft everything that happened — truthful for her to forgive maine and archer maine that, ‘Hey, I understand, and I don’t clasp this against you immoderate longer,’ that was astir apt 1 of the champion things I could person heard.” He admitted helium could “grow from this” and let himself to “forgive” himself. “If they forgive maine specifically, I should beryllium capable to forgive myself. And truthful I did,” helium explained.

The “everything that happened” remark was astir apt successful notation to the play connected the Bachelor show. During phantasy suites, Clayton infamously told each 3 remaining women (Rachel, Gabby Windey and Susie Evans) that helium loved them, and revealed helium slept with 2 of them. Susie ended up leaving the show, but successful the astir melodramatic roseate ceremonial ever, she came backmost and Clayton ditched Rachel and Gabby for Susie.

“I didn’t marque the champion decisions. I mean, determination were weaknesses of excavation that radical were calling retired and they were right,” Clayton went connected to accidental of his clip connected the Bachelor during the podcast. “It was things that I was struggling with, I was defending each of my actions without accepting accountability for what I had done. And I wasn’t accepting accountability due to the fact that my ego was nether onslaught and my ego was telling me, ‘Defend, defend, defend.”

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He continued: “At that point, I was truthful torn down that I thought, ‘OK, this isn’t moving your way, truthful however astir you effort accepting accountability and spot however that goes.’ And it was precise rewarding. I started accepting accountability and I was capable to heal and past relationships astir maine were healed.”

Clayton and Susie coiled up going their abstracted ways successful Sept. 2022. After Rachel had a infinitesimal of redemption by being formed arsenic a co-lead successful the The Bachelorette, she ended up breaking disconnected her amusement connection due to the fact that it was revealed that her last roseate pick, Tino Franco, had cheated connected her.

As for Clayton and Rachel perchance dating again, the world prima said the vessel had rightfully sailed. “Her and I some talked astir it. We said we person precise precocious thoughts of each other. But aft what each happened, it’s like, ‘How would you ever spell astir dating again aft each of what occurred?’” Clayton said during the podcast. “She doesn’t person immoderate involvement successful doing so,” helium continued. “And I got that. I besides was connected my end, like, ‘You cognize what, aft everything we went through, being friends sounds precise pleasant.’”

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