former football player and sales rep clayton echard kicks off things tonight on his journey to love. it at first and i told myself i was not going to fall in love with multiple women, and then it happened. so it was a little scary at first for me to make sense of it, but once i realized i was at that point, i just had to navigate it to the best of my ability. >> now we know the show was shot earlier, so all of this stuff is in the can. but even after a few weeks or a month or so of perspective, you look back at it and say, yeah, that was real, i was in love with three women? >> yeah, the feelings were very real, and looking back at it, i was fully invested and was in the moment, and i don't look back now and say, oh, well, maybe that was just because when i was there, that's what i thought how i felt, but that wasn't reality. that was actually reality, and i know those feelings were genuine. >> you were a contestant on michelle's season. did being a contestant help prepare you for being the bachelor? >> oh, absolutely, because i had only seen maybe four shows prior bachelorette." r,"