The Bachelor couple Clayton Echard and Susie Evans "finally" reunited in Arizona after a weekend full of cheating allegations and negative publicity.
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"The 3 amigos, Crusty Clay, Slimy Sue and Nasty Nate finally united," the 28-year-old Missouri native and former college football player captioned several Monday Instagram photos featuring Susie, also 28, and his brother Nate.
In one of the pictures, Clayton and Susie were hugging each other while standing high on a hill.
Susie, meanwhile, uploaded similar photos to her own Instagram account on Monday.
In addition to a picture with Clayton and Nate, Susie also posted a cute image of Clayton wrapping his arms around her, and they were both smiling big. She captioned the slideshow with one simple red-heart emoji.
Susie also took to her Instagram Story on Tuesday and revealed how she and her boyfriend were taking "a really scenic route" back to her home state of Virginia, where Clayton now lives as well.
Susie shared clips of Clayton and herself driving in the car, and they conducted a fun and lighthearted Q&A session with their followers.
Susie said her favorite thing about Clayton is "how playful he is," and Clayton shared how he loves how Susie pushes him "to be a better person each and every day."
When asked to reveal their love languages, Susie and Clayton agreed on quality time, and Susie also added "physical touch" and "words of affirmation." Clayton then joked about how he likes to receive gifts.
In terms of what drives them crazy about each other, Clayton said Susie leaves water bottles around in every room of the house so she's always hydrated, and Susie playfully complained about Clayton "talking ish" about her all the time.
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The couple proved they are still going strong after a 22-year-old TikToker, Sasha Narang, claimed on Saturday, April 9 she had met Clayton at a bar in New York City on the previous night and they hooked up.
Clayton fired back and released proof, publicly, that he had spent the weekend with his brother and was actually at Mountainside Fitness in Arizona at the time of the alleged affair.
Clayton slammed the "ridiculous" cheating allegation in his Instagram Stories and said in a video, "I can't even believe I'm addressing this, this is ridiculous, but let's just make this as easy as possible."
Clayton went on to reveal his iPhone settings to show his Arizona location over the weekend.
"People that make these false accusations should be held accountable," Clayton complained in his video's caption. "Trying to gain clout by ruining a relationship is embarrassing and extremely immature."
Sasha initially doubled down on her accusation, saying Clayton's "evidence" wasn't really proof.
But Susie defended Clayton by commenting on a Bachelor Nation fan account, which had reported the story.
"Lmao I know that man loves the sh-t out of me. He would never," Susie wrote on Instagram.
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"I FaceTimed Clayton [on Friday] from California -- he's in Arizona -- my call ended at 10 p.m. PST, that would be, like, 1 a.m. EST and unless he has a spaceship, I don't think he could get there by 2," Susie explained.
"I FaceTimed [Saturday morning] at 9:15 a.m., he was in the car with his brother on the way to play basketball. I was heckling them, they were in Arizona, and they played basketball."
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Sasha ultimately released a nearly three-minute apology video on Sunday, claiming that she had in fact been scammed by a Clayton impersonator.
"I was genuinely under the impression that I was with him," Sasha said, explaining how she and Reality Steve spoiler blogger Steve Carbone reviewed camera footage and came to the conclusion some "weird" man was pretending to be the Season 26 The Bachelor star.
Sasha admitted that she owed Clayton and Susie a public apology, while insisting that she never meant to cause any drama and never had any malicious intent.
"This guy truly convinced me that he was Clayton. He, again, introduced me to himself as Clayton. He told me he was on The Bachelor. He knew [Clayton]'s hometown, his birthday -- knew all these super weird facts that it just, obviously, in that moment, me not watching The Bachelor, knowing nothing about it, I believed him," Sasha recalled.
She added, "Super weird [that] someone's impersonating him in New York City, so look out for that."
Sasha also told Us Weekly on Monday that this NYC man is taking advantage of women and his resemblance to Clayton is "scary."
Clayton told the magazine in March that his romance with Susie, a wedding videographer whom Clayton said he was "the most" in love with at the end of his The Bachelor season, was thriving.
"We're gonna give this every chance that we can. We love each other. And as of right now, we're both very, very happy. But relationships take effort. They are hard at times. And so we know that there's gonna be those moments that lie ahead," Clayton explained.
"There's never any guarantee in life, but with all that being said, I am incredibly happy to be with her. I'm so excited to be able to just go get dinner, to go hiking, do all these things with her, travel."
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On The Bachelor's 26th season, Susie happened to be Clayton's third Fantasy Suite date of the week, and the pair mutually agreed she should leave the show in a tense and heated breakup discussion after she learned he had slept with both Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia.
Susie was upset about not being Clayton's one and only considering he had also professed his love to the two other women, and Clayton was angry Susie didn't seem willing to fight for and save their relationship.
Clayton therefore introduced both Gabby and Rachel to his family, which helped him determine that he only wanted to be with Susie, a "once-in-a-lifetime woman."
Clayton attempted to win Susie back, and she agreed to return to the show and make an appearance at the Final Rose Ceremony. But she dumped the Bachelor instead of accepting his final rose, saying that he wasn't her person and they weren't meant to be.
However, Susie reached out to Clayton post-filming seeking some answers, and the pair reconciled and are now dating and in love.
Clayton and Susie realized that Susie had real-world boyfriend expectations while dating Clayton on the show and Clayton had fully adapted to the unique, unconventional and fast-paced environment of progressing multiple relationships simultaneously on The Bachelor.
After The Bachelor finale aired, Clayton moved to Virginia to be with Susie and give their romance a real shot. He had quit his job in medical sales and even sold his condo.
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