Bachelor alum Clayton Echard denies a woman’s accusations that he was the father of her twins, saying “the whole thing was a lie.”
Echard, 31, appeared Thursday The Charlie Kirk Showwhere he explained the situation he has been dealing with for over a year as he was named as the father of twins in a paternity case that he claims is baseless.
“Why I’m here today is because with fame comes madness,” the Eureka, Missouri native told Kirk. ‘Over the past year I have had to deal with a false accusation from a woman who claims that I made her pregnant with twins. It’s been a year now and she has never been pregnant.’
Echard, who was The Bachelor in the show’s 26th season, said that “the whole thing was a lie” and made a number of claims that questioned his accuser’s credibility.
“She’s done this before to three other men, as far as we know. She has been doing this for at least eight years now, and she claimed she was also impregnated with twins by them,” Echard said.
The Bachelor alum Clayton Echard, 31, is denying a woman’s accusations that he was the father of her twins, saying “the whole thing was a lie.” Pictured Thursday on The Charlie Kirk Show
The Eureka, Missouri native appeared on ABC’s The Bachelor in early 2022 after appearing on The Bachelorette last year
Echard said no medical records exist to justify his accuser’s allegations.
“How do we know she made this all up?” Echard said. “Well, the doctors she said she saw – all seven of them – came back and said they had no record of her.
“We did a paternity test at one point and it showed twice as little to no fetal DNA because she was never pregnant, and she also once sent me an ultrasound video that she also posted online.”
Echard said online sleuths on Reddit discovered “24 hours later” that the ultrasound his accuser submitted came from “a video from YouTube six years ago.”
He continued, “So it all goes back to… she made this whole thing up.
“She claimed she was pregnant, which was a lie; she claimed she had a miscarriage, which was a lie; she, like one of the previous victims, claims she has ovarian cancer.”
Echard said his accuser has also made allegations of sexual assault against him and other men.
“She claims she was raped,” Echard said. “She said I did too, after we had proof and everything was documented showing that she said it was consensual, but we didn’t have intercourse. I want to make that clear.’
Echard explained the situation he has been dealing with for over a year as he was named as the father of twins in a paternity case that he claims is baseless.
The reality star said: ‘Over the past year I have been dealing with a false accusation from a woman who claims I got her pregnant with twins – it’s now been a year and she has never been pregnant.’
Echard said no medical records exist to justify his accuser’s allegations
Echard added: “So here we are, where she has lied, lied, lied and lied some more, we have a hearing on June 10 where we hope justice will be done.
‘We hope there will be a verdict that she lied. She probably won’t admit it herself, but hopefully the judge will find that out.’
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 in a different place.
“I got some bad juju or something, I don’t know what happened,” Echard said, chuckling.
Echard told Kirk that he blocked her on his phone 11 days after meeting the woman. She sent him a message from a separate number that she was pregnant, first with one child 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 did not get along; or if he chose not to date her, she would continue with her pregnancy.
Echard said the woman made her story public and he felt he was “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 in a different place.
Echard said the woman made her story public and he felt he was “guilty until proven innocent” in the court of public opinion.
Echard said the headache over the scandal came as he was ‘struggling’ with his ‘mental health’
Echard said a publicist told him the scandal could be a good thing for him to keep his name in the headlines, but he was more interested in moving past it.
“I said, ‘I don’t want to have to deal with this, I’ve been through enough, I’ve struggled with my mental health… I don’t want this,’” Echard told Kirk.
Echard said that after his accuser made the allegations against him public, he received a number of tips that the woman had previously been involved in similar problems with separate men, along with information about the specific lawsuits.
Echard told Kirk that his accuser had sent messages to his family, friends and business associates to damage his reputation.
Kirk compared the situation involving Echard to that of unsigned MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer, which Echard said had “a lot of parallels.”
Echard told Kirk about his case: “I want her to be held accountable – I want her to face the consequences of her actions.”
Echard said two other men involved with the woman will be present in court in support of the woman.
Echard told Kirk that the woman was seeking “validation from others” by claiming to be the victim of various circumstances.
“The reality is she is the aggressor,” Echard said.
Echard said he has made mistakes in the situation but believes he can help others who are falsely accused in certain scenarios
Echard said he felt hopeless amid the public’s opposition in this situation
Echard said he has made mistakes in the situation, but believes he can help others who are falsely accused in certain scenarios. He said he is not out to discredit women, but that people don’t want to jump to conclusions in similar scenarios before all the facts are revealed.
In March, American weekly reported that the woman (who has not been publicly named) accusing Echard said in a statement, “My pregnancy was finally confirmed by an urgent care facility on June 1, 2023.”
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 last year.
