Clayton Echard eliminated Genevieve Parisi and Sarah Hamrick after couples therapy sessions with a psychoanalyst on Monday’s episode of The Bachelor on ABC.
The 28-year-old medical sales representative from Eureka, Missouri sent them home after traveling with the final seven to Vienna, Austria.
Clayton during a group date introduced Genevieve, Sarah, Teddi Wright, Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey to psychoanalyst Katherine after sending them a date card with the Sigmund Freud quote, ‘How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved’.
Psychoanalyst sessions: Clayton Echard eliminated Genevieve Paris and Sarah Hamrick after couples therapy sessions with a psychoanalyst on Monday’s episode of The Bachelor on ABC
‘Welcome to Vienna, the hometown of modern psychotherapy. Sigmund Freud was born here. He’s the founder of psychoanalysis. It’s all about unveiling the deepest layers of fears, emotions, anxieties, and it’s all hidden in your subconscious mind. Each of you will have a couple therapy session with Clayton, your partner,’ Katherine told them.
Genevieve, a 26-year-old bartender from Los Angeles, admitted that she was scared.
‘I’m terrified. It takes a lot for me to open up. And it’s hard to do that unless I’m in a setting that I feel very comfortable,’ she said in a confessional.
Gabby, 30, of O’Fallon, Illinois, told Katherine during their couples therapy session that she was anxious but tearfully opened up about her childhood and her relationship with her parents.
No trust: Sarah was sent home after Clayton declared that he lost trust in her
Walls up: Genevieve during the couples therapy was unable to talk about her feelings
Big development: Katherine revealed after their sessions that someone had been ‘performative’
Big decision: Clayton was serious about the group date ahead of the hometown visits
Teddi, 24, of Redlands, California, was up next and showed her vulnerability.
Genevieve told Katherine that she was nervous and didn’t like being emotional in front of people.
Katherine asked her to try and Genevieve struggled to open up.
Feeling scared: ‘I’m terrified. It takes a lot for me to open up. And it’s hard to do that unless I’m in a setting that I feel very comfortable,’ Genevieve said in a confessional.
‘I think, oh, my God, sorry. I think…,’ Genevieve said.
Katherine asked Genevieve what Clayton needed to do and she answered, ‘I don’t know’.
Genevieve told Clayton that it wasn’t because of him and soon asked to speak with her in private.
Good question: Katherine asked Genevieve what Clayton needed to do and she answered, ‘I don’t know’
They stepped out and Clayton said they couldn’t move forward because he couldn’t see what was inside her walls.
‘I don’t think I realized how hard this would be. I’m not gonna get anywhere if I don’t let my walls down,’ Genevieve said as she was driven away.
Rachel, 25, of Clermont, Florida, admitted to feeling insecure but won points during their session when she said that she trusted Clayton to make the ‘best decision’.
Journey ends: They stepped out and Clayton said they couldn’t move forward because he couldn’t see what was inside her walls
Hard experience: ‘I don’t think I realized how hard this would be. I’m not gonna get anywhere if I don’t let my walls down,’ Genevieve said as she was driven away
Sarah, 23, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, went into her session confident.
‘So I am weirdly very excited. I love therapy, because I like talking about my problems to someone, and my connection with Clayton is really good. So yeah,’ Sarah told the other women.
Sarah thanked Katherine from the start for being there and said she was really excited.
Really excited: Sarah thanked Katherine from the start for being there and said she was really excited
Katherine asked if she ever felt judged by Clatyon or the other girls and Sarah said the past week had been hard after getting her second one-on-one date and becoming a target.
She got emotional while denying accusations that she was cocky about getting engaged to Clayton.
Katherine later dropped a bombshell as she addressed all of them after the group date.
Probing query: Katherine asked Sarah if she ever felt judged by Clatyon or the other girls and she said the past week had been hard after getting her second one-on-one date and becoming a target
‘So thank you, ladies, for being vulnerable and open today. It was hard, I know. Psychoanalysis is all about finding your own conclusions and solutions. I know you saw a lot of feelings. Some of them were honest. Thank you for that. Some of them weren’t honest. And, um, they were… Let’s call it performative,’ Katherine said.
Clayton looked surprised and later questioned all of the women about it.
Rachel, Teddi, and Gabby all told him that Sarah had been sharing intimate details about their dates and making them feel as he’d already made up his mind.
Called out: ‘So thank you, ladies, for being vulnerable and open today. It was hard, I know. Psychoanalysis is all about finding your own conclusions and solutions. I know you saw a lot of feelings. Some of them were honest. Thank you for that. Some of them weren’t honest. And, um, they were… Let’s call it performative,’ Katherine said
Colton was shocked to hear from Rachel that Sarah told them they had cried together during a date and denied that it happened.
He confronted Sarah about it and she cried while denying being manipulative.
‘I’m just gonna be real with you, like, I really felt like you were trying to fake cry to me. Like, it didn’t feel genuine at all,’ Clayton told her.
Shocking detail: Colton was shocked to hear from Rachel that Sarah told them they had cried together during a date and denied that it happened
Clayton sounded angry as he told Sarah that he didn’t believe her.
‘And I think we’re done. I just can’t move forward with you, and so I would like to walk you out,’ he told her.
He then walked her out in front of the other women and told Sarah again that he didn’t trust her.
Got angry: Clayton sounded angry as he told Sarah that he didn’t believe her
Clayton then returned and told the women that he could not hand out a date rose and would see them at the rose ceremony.
Teddi was later sent home during the rose ceremony setting up hometown visits for Gabby, Rachel, Serene Russell and Susie Evans.
Clayton earlier eliminated Eliza Isichei and Mara Agrait during a rose ceremony.
The Bachelor will return next week on ABC with the Hometowns episode.
Fake crying: ‘I’m just gonna be real with you, like, I really felt like you were trying to fake cry to me. Like, it didn’t feel genuine at all,’ Clayton told her.
A preview of next week’s episode showed Clayton during a rose ceremony saying that he was in love with three women and had been intimate with two of them.
Clayton was then shown with his parents telling them that nobody wants to be there anymore.
‘They have a right to be upset. You’ve put yourself in this situation. You’ve screwed the pooch, in my opinion,’ his father told him.
‘I wish I never would have fallen in love. I’m so broken,’ Clayton said in another scene.
Also elimianated: Teddi was later sent home during the rose ceremony setting up hometown visits for Gabby, Rachel, Serene Russell and Susie Evans
Rose accepted: Serene accepted her date rose after a one-on-one with Clayton
Hometown visit: Susie also secured a hometown after her one-on-one date
