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Clayton Echard is sharing receipts amid his ongoing alleged paternity scandal.
“That is the timeline. The reality will at all times set you free,” the previous Bachelor, 30, wrote by way of Instagram Story on Thursday, September 21, alongside a screenshot of an e-mail receipt from a DNA testing firm. His publish comes after his ex alleged he wasn’t cooperating with establishing a take a look at.
In response to Echard’s e-mail, he obtained a receipt for the $725 paternity take a look at earlier on Thursday.
“I’ll take my portion of the take a look at on the twenty seventh of September,” he wrote in an e-mail to the Maryland-based lab, noting his alleged ex will “take her portion” on October 2. “Outcomes will then take a couple of week to get again. I imagine we’re all on the identical web page,” he concluded.
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Echard was named in a lawsuit in August by an unnamed lady, who opted to stay nameless, claiming that he bought her pregnant following a one-night stand. The 33-year-old has requested that Echard take a paternity take a look at earlier than her unborn twins arrive in February.
Echard instructed The Solar in a Monday, September 18, assertion that he didn’t have “sexual activity” with the girl, denying her claims.
Within the court docket paperwork, the unidentified lady claimed that Echard didn’t imagine she was pregnant when she knowledgeable him of the information in June. He allegedly later texted her, “I needed you to return over to verify what I used to be doubting. And you probably did verify that. So, I don’t see you as a liar anymore.”
The girl additional alleged that whereas Echard initially agreed to take a paternity take a look at, he “refused” to undergo with it after she paid a $725 deposit. The previous soccer participant instructed The Solar on Monday that he was the one to request the paternity take a look at earlier than calling her claims “baseless” and “missing in advantage.”
Instantly following the take a look at, each events are set to look in court docket on September 28 for an early decision convention.
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Echard rose to fame as one among Michelle Younger’s suitors on The Bachelorette season 18. He was then solid because the season 26 lead of The Bachelor, the place he ended the present relationship finalist Susie Evans. (Evans, 30, left the present forward of the finale and the pair reconciled after filming wrapped.)
Echard and Evans in the end break up in September 2022. “We simply needed to in the end be there for one another and be supportive,” he completely instructed Us Weekly in February. “And that’s why we’ve been very adamant about letting folks know that like, ‘Hey, I’ve bought nothing however love for her.’ We each know that we might have executed issues otherwise, however in the end, the result was the result.”
