Amy Robach

In the press, in the legal system, involving former bachelor Clayton Eckhardt.

So what started as just a single, simple date quickly spiraled into a paternity claim, accusations of twins, hundreds of messages and emails, court filings, and eventually felony charges.

So on the surface, it looked like just another celebrity scandal.

But underneath that, this is about reputation, manipulation, public judgment, and what it feels like to try to prove your innocence to a world that pretty much already assumes that you're guilty.

So Clayton is here to talk about surviving that storm and about his new podcast, Love Trapped, Owens v. Eckhart, where you can hear all of the incredible details.

Clayton, welcome to Killer Thriller.

Great.

Yeah.

I mean, for us, this is a little bit of a.

it may feel like lighter fare but for you it clearly is not um because this has had a massive impact on your life so um we'll definitely get into a lot of the legal things in like the case but when you my first question is when you look back at may of 2023 did you have any sense that this was about to become your life

Amazing.

Right.

So when you're saying like the false claim, you are speaking about Laura Owens accusing you of fathering her twins, which if you can clarify to us, you claim that you two never even had intercourse.

So what is this like magical thinking?

Like what is the deal?

Um, I, wow.

I don't, I feel like I need, I have so many things to say about what you just said.

It's a lot.

Not the least of which is.

Not the least of which is, uh, be careful, you know, when you go to someone who claims they're a mental health expert, um, without really proving that to you.