TikToker Apologizes to Clayton Echard, Susie Evans After Doubling Down on Cheating Allegations: Everything We Know

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TikToker Apologizes to Clayton Echard, Susie Evans After Doubling Down on Cheating Allegations: Everything We Know

It didn’t take long for Clayton Echard and Susie Evans to be forced to navigate their first post-Bachelor scandal. The season 26 couple fired back after a woman named Sasha Narang claimed to hook up with the former Bachelor over the weekend. The TikToker took to the app on Saturday, April 9, to allege that she spent the night with the 28-year-old Missouri native on Friday, April 8. Echard subsequently provided proof via his iPhone that he was at Mountainside Fitness in Arizona at the time of the alleged hookup. “I can’t even believe I’m addressing this, this is ridiculous, but let’s just make this as easy as possible,” he said via Instagram Stories. Echard added in his caption, “People that make these false accusations should be held accountable. Trying to gain clout by ruining a relationship is embarrassing and extremely immature.” [jwplayer 2Rxg78YA-zhNYySv2] Narang originally doubled down, claiming she had “evidence” that she was with Echard. She has since reviewed “camera footage” — seemingly from an apartment building — and admitted that she was with someone who was pretending to be the ABC star. “This guy truly convinced me that he was Clayton. He, again, introduced me to himself as Clayton. He told me he was on The Bachelor. He knew his hometown, his birthday — knew all these super weird facts that it just, obviously, in that moment, me not watching The Bachelor, knowing nothing about it, I believed him,” Narang said in a lengthy video shared on Sunday, April 10, via TikTok. “So yeah, the guy went along with it the entire time until I left. Super weird [that] someone’s impersonating him in New York City, so look out for that. I'm doing my best to get more footage so I can actually see the face of the person so I can hopefully, you know, find out who this is. I don't really know what I'm going to do about that anyway, but regardless, I've just never been more confused in my life. I truly thought I was with him and I never ever would have made a video or any form of statement if I wasn't certain and, in that moment, I thought I was certain and clearly I was not correct.” Echard and Evans, 29, met on season 26 of The Bachelor, which aired earlier this year. The twosome split after the Virginia Beach native revealed it was a dealbreaker for her that he slept with his other two finalists, Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia. While Echard attempted to reunite with Evans on the show after ending things for good with Windey and Recchia, the wedding videographer walked away from the final rose ceremony. After the show wrapped, however, they got back together, and he is now planning to move to Virginia Beach. “We’re gonna give this every chance that we can. We love each other,” he gushed on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast after the March finale. “And as of right now, we’re both very, very happy. But relationships take effort. They are hard at times. And so we know that there’s gonna be those moments that lie ahead. There’s never any guarantee in life, but with all that being said, I am incredibly happy to be with her. I’m so excited to be able to just go get dinner, to go hiking, do all these things with her, travel.” Scroll through for more on the scandal, including how Evans responded:

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TikToker Apologizes to Clayton Echard, Susie Evans After Doubling Down on Cheating Allegations: Everything We Know

It didn’t take long for Clayton Echard and Susie Evans to be forced to navigate their first post-Bachelor scandal. The season 26 couple fired back after a woman named Sasha Narang claimed to hook up with the former Bachelor over the weekend. The TikToker took to the app on Saturday, April 9, to allege that she spent the night with the 28-year-old Missouri native on Friday, April 8. Echard subsequently provided proof via his iPhone that he was at Mountainside Fitness in Arizona at the time of the alleged hookup. “I can’t even believe I’m addressing this, this is ridiculous, but let’s just make this as easy as possible,” he said via Instagram Stories. Echard added in his caption, “People that make these false accusations should be held accountable. Trying to gain clout by ruining a relationship is embarrassing and extremely immature.” [jwplayer 2Rxg78YA-zhNYySv2] Narang originally doubled down, claiming she had “evidence” that she was with Echard. She has since reviewed “camera footage” — seemingly from an apartment building — and admitted that she was with someone who was pretending to be the ABC star. “This guy truly convinced me that he was Clayton. He, again, introduced me to himself as Clayton. He told me he was on The Bachelor. He knew his hometown, his birthday — knew all these super weird facts that it just, obviously, in that moment, me not watching The Bachelor, knowing nothing about it, I believed him,” Narang said in a lengthy video shared on Sunday, April 10, via TikTok. “So yeah, the guy went along with it the entire time until I left. Super weird [that] someone’s impersonating him in New York City, so look out for that. I'm doing my best to get more footage so I can actually see the face of the person so I can hopefully, you know, find out who this is. I don't really know what I'm going to do about that anyway, but regardless, I've just never been more confused in my life. I truly thought I was with him and I never ever would have made a video or any form of statement if I wasn't certain and, in that moment, I thought I was certain and clearly I was not correct.” Echard and Evans, 29, met on season 26 of The Bachelor, which aired earlier this year. The twosome split after the Virginia Beach native revealed it was a dealbreaker for her that he slept with his other two finalists, Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia. While Echard attempted to reunite with Evans on the show after ending things for good with Windey and Recchia, the wedding videographer walked away from the final rose ceremony. After the show wrapped, however, they got back together, and he is now planning to move to Virginia Beach. “We’re gonna give this every chance that we can. We love each other,” he gushed on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast after the March finale. “And as of right now, we’re both very, very happy. But relationships take effort. They are hard at times. And so we know that there’s gonna be those moments that lie ahead. There’s never any guarantee in life, but with all that being said, I am incredibly happy to be with her. I’m so excited to be able to just go get dinner, to go hiking, do all these things with her, travel.” Scroll through for more on the scandal, including how Evans responded:

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The Allegations

“Last night, I was in a bar, and it was a very dark room. It’s hard to see people, and this guy came up to me. We were, like, kinda standing near each other. He starts talking to me. He’s very attractive. So, I’m responding, we’re kind of flirting. Then, he proceeds to ask me, ‘Do you watch The Bachelor?’ And I go, ‘No,’ ‘cause I’ve never seen it before … So, he tells me he was just on it,” Narang originally claimed on Saturday via TikTok. “I end up going back with him. Didn’t think anything was wrong with that. He approached me, he was flirting with me. Why would I assume he might be engaged? … He made it clear I couldn’t stay over, which is fine — I wasn’t intending on it. But he was very like, ‘You gotta go,’ And I was like, ‘OK, man, I’m outta here.’”

In the comments section of the post, Narang alleged that the person in question said their name was “Clayton.” 

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Clayton’s Response

In addition to denying the allegations immediately via proof of his location on Friday night, Echard shared a screenshot of his DMs with Narang, who claimed they met at The Penny Farthing in NYC.

“My video shows I was in an AZ gym at 8pm MST, which is 11pm EST (your time). So even if I hooped right on a private jet, I wouldn’t make it to NY until 3:30am EST (flight from AZ to NY is 4 1/2 hours). So that disproves you saw me at 2am EST,” he wrote in the message. “Like I said, good luck.”

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Susie’s Response

After Bachelor Nation fan accounts began picking up the story, Evans commented on @MorganPTalks' post: “Lmao I know that man loves the s—t out of me. He would never. 💁‍❤️.”

Evans shared her own “good old-fashioned screenshots” via TikTok on Sunday. “I FaceTimed Clayton [on Friday] from California — he’s in Arizona — my call ended at 10 p.m. PST, that would be, like, 1 a.m. EST and unless he has a spaceship, I don’t think he could get there by 2,” she explained. “I FaceTimed [Saturday morning] at 9:15 a.m., he was in the car with his brother on the way to play basketball. I was heckling them, they were in Arizona, and they played basketball.”

Evans also included a photo she was sent of Echard’s “phone,” which she pointed out didn’t have the same phone case. “Unless he travels and changes into a clear phone case to be, like, snazzy, then I’m, you know, I don’t know,” she quipped. “Also that just looks like a dusty, crusty thumb, like, and Clayton has nice hands.”

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The Apology

Narang released a nearly three-minute-long apology video on Sunday after she connected with Reality Steve.

“I want to start by saying I am so sorry to Susie and Clayton. I was genuinely under the impression that I was with him,” she said. “And after getting camera footage, Reality Steve was able to confirm with me that it was not him. The footage was from behind, but it doesn't seem to be his build. He would know much better than me. But yeah, between me, him, Susie and Clayton, we're the only people who have access to this photo and it is not him. I privately apologized to both of them. But obviously, I owe them a public apology.”

She added that she “did not mean to cause any of this,” claiming, “I truly thought that I was with him. Everything I said in that video was clearly a little impulsive. And I shouldn't have been so assertive and just assumed it was the truth without investigating, maybe, further. And that's totally on me. And I totally went wrong there. I shouldn't have dealt with that how I did. But again, I was so under that impression that I thought I was doing the right thing. And I also want to emphasize the whole reason I made the video was not with any malicious intent. I asked myself if I were in [Susie’s] position would I want to know, and I thought she was engaged to him. If I were her, I would have wanted to know that my, you know, future husband is cheating on me with 22-year-olds in bars.”

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What's Next

Narang told Us in an exclusive statement on Monday, April 11, that she was “in contact” with Evans before Echard.

"Clayton DMed me first before speaking out. I had only been in contact with Susie before that,” she alleged. "There’s someone impersonating Clayton in NYC and it’s really freaky that I was put in that situation. He’s taking advantage of girls by pretending to be him. Their resemblance is scary and he’s memorized his entire life. I’m hoping to advertise what we now know is the truth as much as possible. I’m hoping people can help track this person's identity, and, most of all, get the word out about this messed up person."

She added: “He is taking advantage of girls by pretending to be someone he’s not, and I hope this serves as a PSA to be aware of this impersonator and his intentions."