Rolling solo! Clayton Echard opened up about courting life after his cut up from Susie Evans — and the previous Bachelor isn’t fairly prepared to seek out love once more.
“I’m not trying to date proper now. I’m not mentally healed,” Echard, 29, advised E! Information in an interview printed on Thursday, October 6. “I can’t even fathom seeing anyone in that gentle proper now. And so, I feel I’m actually simply taking this time to deal with myself. … If I’m not healed, then I can’t permit anyone else to be part of my life.”
The Bachelor Nation star and Evans, 29, dated for six months earlier than calling it quits in September. The pair met throughout season 26 of The Bachelor and sparked a romance till the Virginia native revealed that she wasn’t comfy with the previous soccer star being intimate with the remaining two contestants, Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey.
After exiting the ABC collection, Evans then returned throughout the two-part finale, however turned down Echard’s closing rose, selecting to go house solo as an alternative.
On the After the Remaining Rose particular, the duo introduced that they had rekindled their relationship. “I liked him as an individual earlier than I ever fell in love with him,” Evans advised host Jesse Palmer on the time.
Earlier this month, Evans and Echard revealed they’d be shifting to separate states with the hope of creating a long-distance relationship work. Shortly after relocating, nonetheless, the twosome introduced that they had referred to as it quits.
The retired athlete shared on Thursday that he and the sweetness queen have “checked in” with one another after their breakup final month, noting that the twosome have a novel understanding of one another after their shared expertise on The Bachelor.
“On the finish of the day, we all know what we’ve went by way of is completely different than what anybody else has skilled. So, we’ll most likely be one of many solely few individuals to actually perceive one another in that sense,” he mentioned, including that the 2 stay “on good phrases” regardless of calling it quits.
“We clearly will all the time respect and have a love for one another, and I feel that’s a very excellent place to be the place it’s not a hostile ex state of affairs,” Echard defined. “It’s extra of like we’re very loving and caring, however we simply need what’s greatest for one another and who is aware of what that appears like?”
Whereas Echard advised E! Information that he doesn’t know if he might place his “belief and complete id” in another person’s fingers once more, the pair admitted {that a} reconciliation remains to be potential throughout an emotional dialog on the “Off the Vine” podcast earlier this week.
