This post contains spoilers from Monday’s episode ofThe Bachelor.
Clayton Echard’s exes have the floor.
“My first conversation with him, he was entirely too soft for me,” the spray tanner, 28, said. “I need a person that has some edge to them, that can handle me. He was not for me.”
Next up was Cassidy, whose aggressive tactics atthe birthday party group datedrew criticism from the rest of the ladies. “I’m a forward, assertive person,” Cassidy, 26, said.
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Kira called Cassidy “disrespectful,” then the host asked the executive assistant about the accusation about her having a friend with benefits back home while on the show. “Someone thought it was wrong that I had casual sex with someone before coming onThe Bachelorand I just hate that we’re still there,” Claire said.
Hunter, 28, didn’t find that to be the issue. “It wasn’t the fact that you were having sex with him prior, it was the fact that you left him on tangent being like I’ll come back for you after this show,” the recruiter said.
Cassidy replied, “I wasn’t going to cut it off unless I was engaged.”
THE WOMEN COME FOR SHANAE
Kate called out Cassidy for turning Shanae, who the audience booed when Jesse first mentioned her name, into “Frankenstein,” and Lyndsey W. concurred.
“You’re the bully and from the bottom of my heart, f— you, Shanae,” the industrial sales representative, 28, said.
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Shanae called Genevieve “fake,” causing Lyndsey W. to wonder why Shanae cared about any of the women being fake if she didn’t come on the show to make friends. “You don’t have to be my friend, but don’t be one way with me and the opposite the next,” Shanae responded.
Sierra deemed Shanae a “hypocrite” and a “narcissistic, gaslighting biotch.”
When asked about her insincere apology to them, Shanae said she did it for Clayton — an answer the other ladies met with a chorus of “fake.”
“You can’t talk s— about people lying when you lie,” recruiting coordinator Sierra, 26, shouted at Shanae.
Jesse brought upShanae and Genevieve’s two-on-one datein Toronto and had the bartender, 26, join Shanae in the hot seat.
“You compared yourself to Meryl Steep after calling me an actress,” Genevieve said to Shanae.
Shanae said after getting eliminated she “was grieving.” “I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, I lost weight,” she stated. But Shanae claimed that after Clayton sent Genevieve home, the Los Angeles resident “f—ed Aaron from Katie’s season,” referring toAaron ClancyfromKatie Thurston’s season ofThe Bachelorette.
“I met him at a bar,” Genevieve said. “I didn’t even kiss him.”
Genevieve added that she knew Shanae had been direct messaging Aaron, 26. “He sent me a screenshot,” Genevieve said.
Shanae denied it and when given one final change to clear the air, she declined. “She doesn’t care about anybody but herself,” Sierra said of Shanae.
Teddi, however, did confirm that someone adjacent toBachelorNation slid into her DMs after she got home: Clayton’s brother. “I didn’t reply,” the ICU nurse, 25, said. “I will say I think one Echard boy in my lifetime was enough for me.”
SARAH TAKES THE HOT SEAT
Next, Sarah was brought up to discuss how her journey with Clayton took such a drastic turn. “It’s just sad to see a beginning with so much potential end the way that it did,” Sarah, 23, said.
When asked where it all went wrong, Sarah cited thatsecond two-on-one date in Croatia. Genevieve wanted to know why Sarah lied about Clayton crying on their date.
“My intent would never ever be to purposely hurt anyone or to purposely make anyone feel insecure,” Sarah said.
After Sarah dodged the question a few more times, Teddi requested the wealth management consultant “at least admit that you were saying these things.”
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CLAYTON ADDRESSES HIS EXES
Clayton addressed the topic when he faced all the women on stage.
“For them all to be together in that moment and telling me the same story, it became a big red flag,” Clayton said of why he listened to the other women about Sarah. “Your actions had women questioning if they should stay and almost all of them told me they were going to leave because of what you were telling them. And what it came across just to me was you were playing this game for your benefit to get them to all leave, to eliminate the competition. And as I went forward, I began to wonder if anybody else was playing that game as well.”
Clayton still couldn’t comprehend why she lied about certain aspects of their relationship.
“I don’t understand why you said the things you were saying such as, ‘He cried with me,’ " he continued, “… I’m not upset that you said that because it’s like, ‘Oh, she’s calling me out for crying.’ No, I cried plenty. What it was was I was questioning why would you tell the other women I did that when I didn’t?”
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Sarah simply replied, “I don’t understand how it’s applicable anymore.”
The women also asked Clayton why he didn’t believe them about Shanae. “As I start having people come and tell me things, it was early on and we hadn’t built trust yet and I was looking to build that,” he explained. “But I knew that came with time and so I was wanting tangible evidence.”
Lyndsey W. wished Clayton would “own the fact that you had a better connection with Shanae than all of us,” she said. “And it’s like, sit there and own it like a man because nobody forced you to force her on a table and make out with her.”
Sierra piled on. “I think you’re confusing love and lust,” she said. “I think that you need to figure those two out and really realize what it takes to be a married man and I don’t think you’re there yet.”
Clayton acknowledged that watching the show back, he realized Shanae “manipulated me,” adding, “I trusted you, I believed you and it was the worst thing that I could’ve done.”
The Missouri native wanted to issue an apology to final four contestant Serene. The elementary school teacher, 26, asked Clayton atthe time of her elimination after hometownswhether saying “I love you” changed how she felt about him.
“I really feel terrible and I want to apologize,” Clayton told Serene. “Because I hope you don’t close off going forward. You did everything right. You did and I just wish that I would’ve opened up to you instead of having you be the person to teach me that.”
Serene appreciated the apology. “I don’t want you to be worried about me putting my walls back up because I know that in order to get what I want and find that person for me, I have to keep being vulnerable,” she said. “But I do appreciate you saying that.”
The Bachelorcontinues Tuesday (8 p.m. ET) on ABC.
source: people.com
