TV's Bachelor Clayton Echard says what started as one date turned into a paternity claim, hundreds of messages, and a tabloid story timed to explode his career.
He says even though he and his accuser never had intercourse, he found himself spiraling, questioning his own reality, and fighting to clear his name while the internet assumed the worst.
And the drama didn’t stop with the accusation. Clayton says when everything exploded, Bachelor Nation was nowhere to be found.

Killer Thriller: A Small-Town Cheerleader Murder That Became the Highest Rated TV Movie of 1994 with Kellie Martin.
50:28

Killer Thriller: Lela Rochon: He seemed polite and soft-spoken…but date him and it could get you killed.
31:21

Killer Thriller: When you need to be afraid of your father.
39:44