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Posted on 05/08/2025 1:23:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Laura Michelle Owens filed a paternity claim against Season 26 star Clayton Echard, who celebrated the woman's indictment: "This nightmare is over."
An Arizona woman lied about becoming pregnant with "The Bachelor" Season 26 star Clayton Echard, using a fake ultrasound image and a "fabricated ... pregnancy video" to make the bogus claim, authorities said Tuesday.
A seven-count indictment accuses Laura Michelle Owens, 34, of Scottsdale, of false testimony that she was pregnant by Echard, prosecutors said.
From May 2023 to June 2024, "Owens altered an ultrasound image, fabricated a pregnancy video, and lied multiple times under oath," the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
Owens "originally filed a lawsuit seeking child support from Echard, then dropped her claim, alleging she’d had a miscarriage," prosecutors said.
Owens, the daughter of famed radio personality Ronn Owens, could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
Echard, the star of "The Bachelor's" 26th season, could not contain his glee in a video statement he posted Tuesday.
"This nightmare is over," he said. "I am so ready to not have to think about this anymore. I want to say thank you to [Maricopa County Attorney] Rachel Mitchell and the investigators for serving up justice. I want to thank my lawyers. They've been incredible standing by my side."
The "Bachelor" season featuring Echard, a former University of Missouri football player, aired on ABC in 2022 and ended with him dramatically shifting gears.
He picked nurse Gabby Windey and flight instructor Rachel Recchia for the final but changed his mind to pursue the departed Susie Evans.
Echard and Evans were romantically linked until they broke up in fall 2022.
Echard said the legal fight with Owens lasted two painful years.
"This is just such a weight lifted off," he said Tuesday. "We are so, so thankful, and thank you all for your support. I have not been this happy. This is a weight of two years lifted off my shoulders."
Echard insisted he was never in a relationship with Owens and didn't have intercourse with her — but he did say said she performed {censored] on him.
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I hate that show and the Bachelorette show, too.
IT reduces human relationships to a game show level.............
At a minimum, her sentence should include monthly child support payments to him for 18 years for her fraud.
Yep
(Laura Michelle Owens)
So, she’s available....?
Hahaha...just kidding
Yikes 😳
Sounds good to me!
How did she plan on cashing in without a baby? My understanding is that child support doesn’t start until child is born.
Go for it.
Those and the “Married at First Sight” shows..
God question. Maybe she was hoping he would make a settlement to just make it go away?
I’m usually against government regulation, but if they banned al reality TV, I’d be fine with it.
She sounds like a great catch!!
👍👍
Trust women they said. They never lie, they said!
Sometimes judges will order payments before the child is born...
They said that about children in the 90s too... and that was wrong too.
Haven’t the Leftists told us, repeatedly, women never lie?
IT reduces human relationships to a game show level.............
Agreed and I don’t want to sound all legalistic but I immediately have qualms when Christians in particular admit to watching it. (That and anything “Housewives” reality show oriented.) The show has come up in various Bible studies and things I’ve been involved with. 🫤
“... didn’t have intercourse with her — but he did say said she performed {censored] on him.
She sucked his CENSOR?????
Do NOT put it in crazy
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