Susie Evans Calls ‘BiP’ a Nightmare, Is Open to Dating After Clayton

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Susie Evans Says ‘No’ to ‘BiP,’ Reveals Whether or not She’d Date Inside Bachelor Nation After Clayton Echard Break up

Susie Evans is shifting on from Clayton Echard — however don’t count on to see her on the lookout for love on the seashores of Mexico.

“I actually do not assume so, sadly. … It really seems like my nightmare if I am being trustworthy,” the 29-year-old Susie Was Like blogger mentioned on Us Weekly’s “Right here for the Proper Causes” podcast about showing on Bachelor in Paradise. “I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, so many Paradise {couples} make it, like, it is an effective way [to meet someone] since you’re getting a ton of various choices. You possibly can really feel issues out, that is nice.’ However then watching it again this season, having been on a present, I used to be like, ‘That is really my nightmare.’ You are on a seaside, you are in a swimsuit, like, ‘No thanks [to being] on digital camera in a swimsuit ever.’”

She continued: “However in any case, in addition to that, you are actually down there and so they’re bringing down, like, literal temptation. … They carry down any person who’s, like, stunning, humorous, good and all these items and it is like, ‘What?’ … I’ve plenty of nice coping mechanisms. I’ve plenty of confidence, however I do not know that I might willingly join that.”

Bachelor Nation met Evans on season 26 of The Bachelor, which aired earlier this yr. After their relationship ended on the collection, they obtained again collectively earlier than calling it quits for good in September.

“I’m positively focusing in on myself proper now,” she informed Us about courting once more. “I did put plenty of power and time into my relationship and I actually cared about Clayton, and I feel that he was going by way of plenty of robust stuff as nicely. So, I am actually excited to have the ability to concentrate on me proper now. I am positively open to courting. Someone requested me on a date yesterday and I instantly began sweating and I used to be like, ‘I do not know if I can do that.’ Not as a result of I am not prepared, however simply because courting is frightening.”

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In accordance with Evans, who wrote about their break up on her new weblog, she and Echard broke up over compatibility points.

“I see feedback nonetheless, like, ‘Nicely, what occurred?’ And I’m like, ‘Nicely, nothing occurred!’ He didn’t do something; I didn’t do something. We simply weren’t actually appropriate,” she mentioned. “I feel it was in the end, like, expectations of what would you like in a companion? What would you like from your self? And all of these sorts of issues. And we simply weren’t actually aligned on these issues.”

Nonetheless, Evans informed Us that she wouldn’t “change something” if she had the possibility to speak to herself earlier than she launched into her Bachelor journey.

“Clearly our relationship did not work out and a lot may have been completely different this previous yr if we had figured that out sooner. However in all honesty, I would not change something. So I would not inform myself to alter something. I might actually simply be there for myself and be like, ‘You are gonna get by way of this. That is gonna be actually onerous at instances, however, you understand, every thing that is gonna occur to you is gonna enable you to develop as an individual. It is gonna enable you to perceive your self higher,’” she mentioned. “Every time we go away relationships, we have now that realization of like, ‘Oh, that is what I need in a companion, that is what I do not need.’ And that is a given. However I additionally realized a lot about myself by way of all of this that, which is form of what led me to the weblog. I’ve gone on this, like, main journey on this previous yr the place I’ve actually had to take a look at myself and [ask] like, ‘What? How did I get by way of all this?’”

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Would Susie Date Inside Bachelor Nation?

“I feel that I might actually need to have an interest within the individual and I might wanna get to know them earlier than ever, like, going out with them publicly. I might actually wanna vet that decision,” Evans informed Us. “I might actually wanna ensure that’s any person that if there was an image taken or one thing like that — not that it actually issues, I form of do not care about stuff like that — however it might be one other public relationship. … So I might simply actually need to ensure that I really, actually, actually like that individual earlier than I even give a primary date an opportunity simply because I feel it will get sophisticated when individuals wanna speak about it.”

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Susie Denies Relationship Justin Glaze

Somebody she isn’t courting is season 17 Bachelorette alum Justin Glaze. They’re, nevertheless, teaming up for content material collectively sooner or later.

“We’re onerous launching a collaboration,” she mentioned with amusing when knowledgeable in regards to the hypothesis. “I used to be there to assist him movie an advert, which had nothing to do with my weblog. … His videographer wasn’t obtainable and I reside three hours from him and he was like, ‘Hey, is there any likelihood you would be obtainable on this date to do a videography factor?’ And I used to be like, ‘Can we trade sure for a weblog collaboration?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, completely.’ We really had a lot enjoyable. I have not even watched the footage again but, however we had been dying laughing going by way of the DMs [of dating questions I got] so I think about it will be entertaining to observe again.”

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What Susie Is Searching for in a Accomplice

“I’m a really formidable individual. I really feel like I’ve actually large desires for myself and my video enterprise and I need a way of life that can permit me to have stunning experiences, meet unbelievable individuals. I’ve this dream to be a documentary filmmaker. And I would like any person that wishes to see me achieve that and, like, needs to 100% be my greatest fan and my greatest cheerleader and assist me emotionally by way of that as a result of that is an enormous dream,” she informed Us. “That is a very large objective and that is a novel way of life. It isn’t gonna preserve me in a single place for too lengthy, however I need any person who’s down, you understand? I need any person who’s like, ‘That is wonderful that you understand what you need out of this life or what you wanna create and do.’ And so I simply want any person who’s alongside for the trip but in addition has their factor and has the power to try this and be keen about that, however equally assist and love me by way of what I am pursuing.”

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How Susie Feels About ‘The Bachelor’ Franchise

Evans tuned into season 19 of The Bachelorette and season 8 of Bachelor in Paradise — one thing not all alums choose to do.

“I look again and I am like, ‘That was not form, like, I used to be not handled nicely on this second,’ or no matter my emotions had been — and everyone feels that method, no one’s gonna come off actuality tv and be like, ‘That was a beautiful expertise, I exploited my emotional well-being for the aim of leisure’ — there’s simply no method you are gonna come off of one thing like that and be completely stoked about every thing,” she defined. “It’s weak, it is robust, [but] it is enterprise, like, it is actually enterprise for individuals. There’s part of me that was in a position to separate a few of that. An enormous a part of it’s that I cherished the women from my season. I had a lot respect for them. I had a lot enjoyable with them. I had so many fantastic moments with them once we had been filming and I went again to Virginia, [I] went again to my regular life afterward, so, like, I do not see any of them actually. … It’s been enjoyable to observe The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise [and] see these relationships [and] the story traces unravel or no matter. It was entertaining for me. And I did watch the present for the 2 or three years main as much as happening it. I began watching on Colton [Underwood]’s after which I might get on Twitter and Twitter’s simply so humorous.”

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The Final Time Susie and Clayton Spoke

Evans informed Us that she and Echard are now not in contact. The final time he reached out, nevertheless, was to ship a optimistic message.

“He did ship me a very nice message, like, I don’t know, a month in the past — and it introduced me to tears,” she mentioned. “It was simply very nice for him to say like, ‘I’m so grateful for every thing that you just did for me in our relationship, and I’ve been in a position to mirror and I’m simply really grateful for the friendship that we had on the finish of the day.’ And that meant quite a bit to me. It was actually, very nice to listen to from him, however we didn’t, like, compensate for the telephone and we don’t textual content or something like that. However that was actually significant and positively heartfelt, and I may inform that he had, like, considered it and in order that meant quite a bit.”