Introducing Love Trapped

Former Bachelor Clayton Echard’s casual one-night fling turned into a paternity nightmare.  The scandal ignited the internet, attracting hundreds of citizen sleuths who noticed the story didn’t add up. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Tonight former Bachelor star Clayton Eckert Clayton Ecker Clayton Ecker
Bachelor's Clayton Eckert.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
He had a brief romantic encounter with this woman.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
And later claimed she was pregnant with his twins.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Who he says, try to destroy him. I mean, this
is really an unbelievable story. Nothing get pregnant by the
funning wrestler.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
This story starts with a very familiar scene, an at
home pregnancy test.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
It was just her and I waiting for the results.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
The woman he was standing next to was essentially a stranger,
someone who had reached out to him on LinkedIn. They'd
only hooked up once.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
One line shows up right away.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Many of us have been there before. Whatever result you're
hoping for, the weight is excruciating.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
And then the second line starts coming in and I'm like, Wow,
she's actually pregnant.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
This moment changed Clayton Eckerd's life forever, but not in
the way he expected.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Every time you think it couldn't get crazier, it just does.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Over the next two years, he would be thrown into
the spotlight again, this time becoming the center of a
story that was spiraling out of his control. The media
is here.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
You know that this case has gone viral. The dating contract,
stalker ish behavior. She sent me over five hundred emails
and text messages.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. It's
just chaos. Had she not gone public, things wouldn't be
where they are today, would search more. It's a story
about who you believe and why you believe them. It's
not about men versus women, It's about victims versus abusers.

(01:49):
It would take a group of strangers all across the
country to finally prove the truth. My bullshit meter went
off right away. They found information that I don't think
any private investigator could have found. The smoking gun of
the entire case. Discovered life every day was a new twist.
She makes up all these characters and she creates fake personas.

(02:13):
This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. There's so
much collateral damage from this story. What would come out
was a whole group of victims who'd fallen into the
same trap.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I got a DM that said, hey, you need to
look into this court case. You're not the only one bingo.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
This shit doesn't happen twice. I'm Stephanie Young. This is
Love Trapped, and this season you'll hear from Clayton Eckerd himself.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
This is something that's more common than people realize. It's
called getting trapped.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Listen to Love Trapped on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm gonna ask you
one final time. You were never pregnant by Clayton ecker
correct trad