Clayton Eckerd

He did not ever cheat on her, did not in any way stray from loving her.

His commitment to her was real.

And the things that he shared with her were real, however perverse and wrong and misguided and based on so many codependent and bad things, they were real.

He has accepted responsibility for this position, and he will accept the punishment, and he will go to jail today.

Someone who's never been in jail, who was successful, who was, while this was going on, making $200,000, $250,000 a year and living a life for him that was in many ways perfect, that was on paper everything that you would want.

His life will be ruined by this.

He will be a lifetime registrant on the sex offender registry.

He will be instantly judged by anyone who meets him.

He will be restricted on where he can live and so many other things.

And he has gotten a lot of perspective himself from what is important from this whole thing.

Losing everything can help you see the material matters that really matter to being happy and being safe and secure.

I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor.

The dating contract.

This is unlike anything I've ever seen before.

On the next episode of Betrayal... He was really depressed.

There was no use.

I felt like I was on the Twilight Zone.

I'm Clayton Eckerd.

In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor.

If I could press a button and rewind it all, I would.