She accepted his remaining rose, however she’s not fairly prepared to just accept an engagement ring.
“The Bachelor” Season 26 winner Susie Evans revealed on Nick Viall’s podcast “The Viall Files” on Wednesday that if her boyfriend, Clayton Echard, proposed, she would say “no.”
“Now we have talked about this, and I’ve advised Clayton, for those who shock me [with an engagement], I’ll say no,” the fact star, 28, mentioned. “This isn’t a enjoyable shock.”
Evans mentioned she and Echard, additionally 28, have set a timeline for the way they plan to navigate the following few months of their relationship.
The couple plans to do a three-month “post-show check-in” and one other “pulse examine” in September when their Virginia Seaside lease is up.
“I don’t plan to get engaged in September and Clayton is aware of that,” Evans clarified.
The photographer mentioned whereas she and her “The Bachelor” star beau have had a “nice time” and “a whole lot of enjoyable collectively” within the 4 months since they dated post-filming, she admitted “it’s been powerful doing this and watching this again.”
“Now we have quite a bit to find out about one another and now we have quite a bit to find out about ourselves nonetheless,” Evans mentioned. “We’re nonetheless rising and studying from this.”
On Tuesday evening’s finale, “Bachelor” host Jesse Palmer requested Echard if he needed to suggest to Evans — as is typical for the contestants to do within the finale, even stating that jeweler Neil Lane was sitting within the viewers and able to present the ring.
Echard gave Evans his “remaining rose” as an alternative — after a tumultuous ending to his run on “The Bachelor,” through which he advised all three of his finalists that he cherished them.
“Now we have realized that if we might have gotten engaged, we wouldn’t be doing it for us, so we’re, like, ‘Let’s not do it,’” Evans advised Viall, 41. “It’s not for us.”
She added, “We’ve obtained a while frames to have these candid conversations with one another, however we wish to give this a shot exterior of this overwhelming surroundings.”