Bachelor alum Clayton Echard denies allegations made by a woman that he fathered her twins, saying “it was all a lie.”
Echard, 31, appeared Thursday in The Charlie Kirk Showwhere he explained the situation he has been facing for almost a year, since he was named the father of twins in a paternity lawsuit that, according to him, has no basis.
“The reason I’m here today is because I guess fame comes with a side of crazy,” the Eureka, Missouri, native told Kirk. “In this last year, I have been dealing with a false accusation from a woman who claims that I impregnated her with twins; we are now a year into that and she was never pregnant.”
Echard, who was The Bachelor on the show’s 26th season, said “it was all a lie” and made a series of claims that challenged his accuser’s credibility.
“She has done this previously to three other men we know; she has been doing this for at least eight years and claimed that they also got her pregnant with twins,” Echard said.
Bachelor alum Clayton Echard, 31, denies allegations made by a woman that he fathered her twins, saying “it was all a lie.” In the photo he appears on Thursday on The Charlie Kirk Show.
The Eureka, Missouri native appeared on ABC’s The Bachelor in early 2022 after appearing on The Bachelorette the year before.
Echard said there are no medical records to substantiate the allegations made by his accuser.
‘How do we know she made all this up?’ Echard said. ‘Well, the doctors she said she saw, all seven of them, came back and said they had no records on her.
“At one point we did a paternity test that turned up little to no fetal DNA twice because she was never pregnant, and at one point she also sent me an ultrasound video that she also put online.”
Echard said online sleuths on Reddit discovered “24 hours later” that the ultrasound his accuser sent was from “a YouTube video from six years ago.”
He continued, “So it all came back to…she made this whole thing up.”
‘She claimed she was pregnant, which was a lie; she claimed that she had had a miscarriage, which was a lie; She claimed, like one of the previous victims, that she had ovarian cancer.
Echard said his accuser has also made sexual assault allegations against him and other men.
“She claims she has been raped,” Echard said. “She said I did that too, after we have evidence and everything has been documented that shows she said we did it consensually, but we didn’t have sex. I want to make that clear.”
Echard explained the situation he has been going through for almost a year, as he was named the father of twins in a paternity lawsuit that, according to him, has no merit.
The reality star said: “In this last year, I’ve been dealing with a false accusation from a woman claiming that I got her pregnant with twins – we’re now a year into that and she was never pregnant.”
Echard said there are no medical records to justify his accuser’s accusations.
Echard added: “So here we are, where she has lied, lied, lied and lied, we have a hearing on June 10 where we hope that justice will be done.”
‘We hope it is determined that she lied. She probably won’t admit it herself, but hopefully the judge will determine it.
Echard said he had previously dealt with a separate false accusation (from a separate party) that he was able to refute using location services that showed he was geographically located elsewhere.
“I had a bad juju or something, I don’t know what happened,” Echard said with a smile.
Echard told Kirk that 11 days after meeting the woman, he had blocked her on his phone. She sent him a message from a different number telling him that she was pregnant, first with a son and then with twins.
Echard said the woman offered him the chance to date her for a week, after which she would have an abortion if they didn’t get along; or if he decided not to date her, she would go ahead with her pregnancy.
Echard said the woman went public with her story and that she felt “guilty until proven innocent” in the court of public opinion.
Echard told Kirk that he immediately publicly denied the allegations and defended himself.
Echard said he had previously faced a separate false accusation (from a separate party) that he was able to refute using location services that showed he was geographically located elsewhere.
Echard said the woman went public with her story and that she felt “guilty until proven innocent” in the court of public opinion.
Echard said the heartbreak over the scandal came while he was “struggling” with his “mental health.”
Echard said a publicist told him the scandal might be good to keep his name in the headlines, but he was more interested in putting it behind him.
“I said, ‘I don’t want to deal with this, I’ve been through enough, I’ve been struggling with my mental health… I don’t want this,'” Echard told Kirk.
Echard said that once her accuser went public with the allegations against her, he received a number of clues that the woman was involved in similar matters with different men before, along with information about the specific court cases.
Echard told Kirk that his accuser sent messages to his family, friends and business associates seeking to damage his reputation.
Kirk compared the situation involving Echard to that of unsigned MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer, with whom Echard said there were “a lot of parallels.”
Echard told Kirk of her case: “I want accountability; I want her to face the consequences of her actions.”
Echard said two other men who were involved with the woman will be at his court hearing to support him.
Echard told Kirk that the woman was seeking “validation from others” by claiming to be a victim of different circumstances.
“The reality is that she is the aggressor,” Echard said.
Echard said he made mistakes in the situation, but believes he can help other falsely accused people in certain scenarios.
Echard said he felt desperate at the public’s rejection of this situation.
Echard said he made mistakes in the situation, but believes he can help other falsely accused people in certain scenarios. She said he is not seeking to discredit women, but rather to encourage people not to jump to conclusions in similar scenarios until all the facts have been revealed.
In March, US Weekly reported that the woman (who has not been publicly identified) accusing Echard said in a statement: “My pregnancy was definitively confirmed on June 1, 2023 by an urgent care center.”
Echard, who played college football at the University of Missouri and was invited to an NFL practice camp in 2016, appeared on ABC’s The Bachelor in early 2022 after appearing on The Bachelorette the year before.
