How Bachelor Nation’s Susie Evans Deals With “Hateful” Online Comments

And while Clayton is now moving to Virginia to start his life with Susie, things still haven’t been totally rosy.

“I’m just going to be honest: I knew it was not going to be well-received,” she said on the podcast, “and I’ve been telling Clayton this. I’m like, ‘They are not going to be happy for us. Like, they’re just not. Like, the way it happened. We could be the most hated couple in Bachelor Nation. We really could.'”

Still, she said she’s not going to let this stop them from following their hearts. “What I would say to them is, like take those moments where maybe I inspired you to walk away from a bad situation, take those moments and let that empower you,” she said on The Viall Files about her critics. “But also know there is more to this story that you will never know.”