I’m ‘Not Mentally Healed’ From Susie Evans Cut up

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 seeking to date proper now. I’m not mentally healed,” Echard, 29, informed E! Information in an interview revealed on Thursday, October 6. “I can’t even fathom seeing anyone in that gentle proper now. And so, I believe 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 sequence, Evans then returned throughout the two-part finale, however turned down Echard’s closing rose, selecting to go residence solo as an alternative. 

On the After the Last Rose particular, the duo introduced they’d rekindled their relationship. “I cherished him as an individual earlier than I ever fell in love with him,” Evans informed host Jesse Palmer on the time. 

Earlier this month, Evans and Echard revealed they might be transferring to separate states with the hope of constructing a long-distance relationship work. Shortly after relocating, nonetheless, the twosome introduced they’d 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 singular 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 is completely different than what anybody else has skilled. So, we’ll in all probability be one of many solely few folks to essentially perceive one another in that sense,” he mentioned, including that the 2 stay “on good phrases” regardless of calling it quits. 

“We clearly will at all times respect and have a love for one another, and I believe that’s a extremely great spot to be the place it’s not a hostile ex scenario,” 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 informed E! Information that he doesn’t know if he may place his “belief and complete id” in another person’s arms once more, the pair admitted {that a} reconciliation continues to be attainable throughout an emotional dialog on the “Off the Vine” podcast earlier this week.