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It’s getting ugly between Gabby Windey and Clayton Echard.
Or, maybe we must always say, it’s getting uglier between Gabby Windey and Clayton Echard.
As it’s possible you’ll recall, Echard and Windey met, fell for one another and dated on and after the previous’s season of The Bachelor.
However then Clayton finally dumped her — in addition to Rachel Recchia — to pursue a relationship with Susie Evans.
This was years in the past.
Nonetheless, Windey took a shot at Echard’s on-line dancing movies a number of days in the past… and her ex did NOT take kindly to it.
“Gabby, what you’re doing is bullying. There’s no different means round it,” Echard mentioned on April 6, addressing Windey, who beforehand advised Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers that Echard’s dancing posts “will make you run … you’ll want you didn’t have eyes.”
Added Echard in his response to his former lover:
“You’re attacking me for my bodily look, you’re attacking me for a ardour that I like that’s modified my life. It’s pointless and it’s not humorous.
“You’ve gotten such a big platform and also you’re setting a extremely unhealthy instance, which is simply disheartening. I don’t need individuals to be scared to strive one thing new as a result of [of] bullying on-line, like what you’re doing. Do higher Gabby.”
Take it away now, Gabby!
“Oh, that’s wealthy,” the 34-year outdated mentioned by way of a TikTok video posted on April 8. “It’s wealthy coming from a person who exploited my sexual life on TV with out me figuring out.”
Yikes, huh? Issues are actually getting private now.
Again on Season 26 of The Bachelor, Echard advised viewers that he slept with each Gabby and Rachel, an admission most leads had not made prior to now.
“You had been intimate with ‘the each of us’ you mentioned on nationwide TV in entrance of tens of millions with out having a dialog with me or another girl first,” Gabby went on Tuesday. “So, you humiliated us in entrance of one another and in entrance of all people watching the TV present.”
Echard beforehand admitted to having had suicidal thoughts and has shared movies of himself dancing for the digicam since 2023.
“[Dancing] has introduced a lot self love and self-worth that I’m really so grateful to have discovered one thing that I get to work on myself day by day and problem myself,” he mentioned.
“I’m not the best at it and I’m conscious of that, I’m not delusional nevertheless it’s me versus me each single day I get into that studio and it’s motion remedy and it’s allowed me to launch loads of my anger and frustrations.”
Clayton added that he hadn’t talked to Windey — who served as The Bachelorette alongside Recchia in 2022 — “in three years,” however that Windey continues “to take pictures at me and it’s simply pointless.”
After the the aforementioned 2022 season wrapped up, Clayton garnered backlash over how he behaved. He was ridiculed for exposing his fantasy suite dates with Rachel and Gabby to Susie and claiming he loved them all.
To conclude her latest TikTok video, Gabby took a long pause before directing her comments at Clayton.
“Oh, I’m a mean girl?” she said. “As a straight, white man maybe you should do better with your power.”
