Jade Roper Says There’s ‘No Excuse’ for How Clayton Treated Susie Before ‘Bachelor’ Elimination: It Was ‘Triggering for Me’
11.03.2022 - 19:15
/ usmagazine.com
Too close to reality? Jade Roper is the latest Bachelor Nation member to weigh in on what went down between Clayton Echard and Susie Evans during fantasy suites — and she didn’t hold back.
“I can see both sides to a degree,” the season 19 Bachelor alum exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, March 9, while promoting her Sacred Skulls NFT project. “I understand that it is a show and I think that the show knew ahead of time how Susie felt … when it comes to relationships and sex, and everything like that. So I think the show knew [and] they strategically may have placed her [as the third] fantasy suite. But I don’t think Clayton handled it well at all. I feel like there is no excuse for his behavior.”
During the Tuesday, March 8, episode of the ABC dating series, Clayton, 28, and Susie, 29, clashed over their different points of view about getting physical before an engagement. After the video producer confessed that it would be a deal-breaker for her if Clayton had sex with someone else, the Missouri native was forced to admit that he was intimate with both Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia. Though the athlete told Susie he loved her “the most,” he got heated and ultimately sent the Virginia native packing.
“It was actually sort of triggering for me to watch, really,” Jade told Us. “Watching a woman try to have a mature conversation [and] express her feelings — and she was very much just sticking to how she was feeling and she was, you could tell, like, being very receptive to what he was saying — and then all of a sudden he, like, flipped the script on her and was like, ‘How could you do this to me?’ And just, like, watching her emotions and then the way he, like, stormed off and [was] like, ‘I’m done, it’s done.’ And the