Hunter Haag, Susie Evans and Clayton Echard. ABC (3)
Conserving tabs. Hunter Haag revealed how Susie Evans is doing after her cut up from Clayton Echard earlier this yr.
“I speak to Susie fairly a bit,” Haag, 30, completely informed Us Weekly on Saturday, November 5, whereas attending the Bachelor in Paradise Tastemaker occasion. “She’s doing nicely.”
The North Carolina native — who turned pals with Evans, 29, whereas competing for Echard’s coronary heart on season 26 of The Bachelor — added, “She’s thriving. Her enterprise is doing nice, so we like to see it.”
Serene Russell, who was roommates with the Virginia native in the course of the ABC actuality collection, additionally chimed in on Evans’ present way of thinking.
“She’s taking time to pursue her images and journey and simply actually care for herself,” the Bachelor in Paradise star, 27, completely informed Us on Saturday, confirming that she is doing “rather well” proper now.
Russell concluded: “We simply need our pals to be pleased.”
Evans first met Echard whereas filming season 26 of the present in late 2021. The Missouri native, 29, raised eyebrows when he abruptly despatched the videographer residence throughout their fantasy suites date after she confessed she was uncomfortable with him sleeping with the opposite two contestants — Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia — shortly earlier than a possible proposal.
Echard, nevertheless, didn’t surrender on the romance. He tried to win Evans again in the course of the present’s finale, however she dumped him over the last rose ceremony. The twosome revealed in the course of the After the Remaining Rose particular in March 2022 that they had been giving their romance a second likelihood.
Sixth months later, the previous Bachelor Nation couple introduced their cut up.
“We’re not going to say there’s not the chance, however there’s nonetheless lots of ache that got here from the whole state of affairs itself that, I feel, we are able to each say we’re type of far off from therapeutic from proper now,” Echard informed host Kaitlyn Bristowe on the “Off the Vine” podcast in October, one month after going public together with his breakup. “We want extra time. I don’t know if that’s three, six months, a yr, two years, no matter, however like, the injury continues to be too contemporary.”
Later that month, the previous soccer participant informed E! Information that he was “not trying to date proper now,” confessing that he was “not mentally healed” from his current heartbreak.
Bachelor in Paradise airs on ABC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Hannah Kahn
