

Clayton Echard Courtesy of Clayton Echard/Instagram
Clayton Echard seems to have obtained new data amid his ongoing alleged paternity scandal.
“Since posting, I’ve been notified (and have confirmed) that there are different people on the market with almost similar accusations being made in opposition to them by the very same individual,” the previous Bachelor, 30, wrote on his Instagram Story on Thursday, September 21. “A number of the courtroom circumstances are nonetheless publicly accessible and lively.”
Final month, Echard was named in a lawsuit by an nameless lady who claimed he had gotten her pregnant throughout a one-night stand on Might 20. She requested that he take a paternity take a look at forward of her twins’ February 2024 start.
The lady subsequently alleged that Echard wasn’t cooperating and “refused” her paternity take a look at request, which led him to share the receipts. In a separate Instagram Story submit on Thursday, Echard confirmed that he had scheduled the paternity take a look at, regardless of his ex’s claims.
“That is the timeline. The reality will at all times set you free,” he wrote, captioning a screenshot of an e-mail receipt from a DNA testing firm. The e-mail seemingly confirmed that Echard had paid $725 for the paternity take a look at.
A second e-mail — with the topic line “Affirmation of Check” — clarified that Echard would take his “portion of the take a look at on the twenty seventh of September.” He confirmed that his ex would “take her portion the 2nd of October.”
The message concluded: “Outcomes will then take a couple of week to get again. I imagine we’re all on the identical web page now.”
Echard beforehand denied the girl’s “baseless” claims in a press release to The Solar on Monday, September 18, saying that they “didn’t have sexual activity.”
Nevertheless, within the courtroom paperwork, the girl claimed that Echard knew of the being pregnant since June, however didn’t imagine her.
“I wished you to return over to verify what I used to be doubting. And you probably did affirm that. So, I don’t see you as a liar anymore,” Echard’s alleged textual content to the girl learn.
Each Echard and the unnamed lady are set to look in courtroom on September 28 for an early decision convention.
Echard’s ongoing alleged paternity scandal comes after his rise to fame from The Bachelor franchise. Whereas he made his Bachelor Nation debut on Michelle Younger’s season of The Bachelorette in 2021, Echard turned the Bachelor the next 12 months.
Whereas he provided his remaining rose to Susie Evans on the finish of his season, he in the end turned him down. Nevertheless, as soon as filming got here to an finish, they gave their relationship one other shot. In September 2022, the pair confirmed that they’d break up.
“We’ve been very cautious with what we’ve shared as a result of a lot of what we went via is non-public and it doesn’t have to be shared,” Echard advised Us Weekly solely in February of the break up. “We each know that we may have achieved issues otherwise, however in the end, the result was the result.”