Susie Evans Was ‘Brought to Tears’ by Ex Clayton Echard’s Last Outreach, Explains Why They Don’t Keep in Touch

01.12.2022 - 17:15 / usmagazine.com

Susie Evans and Clayton Echard have been amicable since the beginning of their breakup, but that doesn’t mean the former Bachelor couple keeps in touch.

“We don’t [talk]. I was very open-minded to how it would look like,” the 29-year-old wedding photographer said on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast about their potential to stay friends. “I pretty much told Clayton and I was like, ‘I’m comfortable with however this is gonna work for both of us. I respect you and I love you and I don’t want to do anything that’s gonna be harmful for you — whether that’s staying in touch or not staying in touch.’ Because I felt like, ultimately, we both knew that we were not compatible and I think, for him, he was able to express to me that he didn’t think it was gonna be good to stay in touch. So we don’t really keep in touch. But he did send me a really nice message, like, I don’t know, a month ago — and it brought me to tears.”

Evans and Echard, 29, announced their split in September after reconnecting following season 26 of The Bachelor, which aired earlier this year.

“It was just really nice for him to say like, ‘I’m so grateful for everything that you did for me in our relationship, and I’ve been able to reflect and I’m just truly grateful for the friendship that we had at the end of the day.’ And that meant a lot to me,” Evans continued. “It was really, really nice to hear from him, but we didn’t, like, catch up on the phone and we don’t text or anything like that. But that was really meaningful and definitely heartfelt, and I could tell that he had, like, thought about it and so that meant a lot.”

After releasing their shared statement, the exes came together to speak about their breakup on Kaitlyn Bristowe’s “Off the