Echard told the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast Tuesday he's been following online chatter from the get-go. "And then the first episode aired and all of a sudden, it just opened the floodgates and at that point, I started to get overwhelmed," he said. "I'd be lying if I said it was all sunshine and roses. I have definitely fallen victim to reading everything, which everybody's told me, 'Stop reading all the comments,' but my thought was if I know what's out there, there's no surprises."
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