The Bachelor bachelorette Susie Evans has revealed if she misses Clayton Echard and is currently dating someone.

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Susie took to her Instagram Stories earlier this week and conducted a Q&A session with fans about how love life, according to BachelorNation.com.

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When one of her followers asked if she misses her ex-boyfriend, Susie got candid and shared of Clayton, "Meh... joking. Of course!"

"He was a wonderful part of my life," she said. "He probably has a lot less grey hairs coming in now that he's got me off his back!"

Susie proceeded to share on a serious note, "But really, of course I miss him, he was my closest friend for the last year and we went through a lot together and I know we will both have a special place in each others heart."

"And now that we are back on talking terms," she added, "I can go back to roasting him. (But you guys still can't... only me)."

Susie is currently living in Virginia Beach, VA, and planning to move to Los Angeles in January 2023.

While Susie recently said she's "definitely open to dating" again, Susie is easing into it.

"I haven't gone out on a date yet but mostly because every time it comes up my armpits start sweating... and still banking on finding out I'm actually a long lost princess and I can't date anything but royalty anyways," Susie joked with one fan in her Q&A.

According to one of Susie's followers, there are "so many social media rumors" out there that Susie already has a new boyfriend.

When asked how she deals with that, Susie replied, "It's exhausting.. jk I'm so vain, I love the attention. Jk FR."

"I don't see too many rumors about it but it doesn't really bother me either way," she continued.

"I feel like the truth usually finds its way out eventually and if it doesn't, oh well. Me having a rumored bf that doesn't exist won't stop me from finding a real bf.. at least hopefully."

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Susie told Elite Daily in a recent interview that she's been "having fun being single" but "would go on a date tomorrow."

In fact, she revealed she already developed a crush on someone, which feels "normal and natural" to her now that she's no longer in The Bachelor bubble of 30 women competing for one guy.

As for what she's looking for in her next relationship, Susie shared how her "type" is not athletic men like Clayton and "compatibility is so huge in relationships" to her. She said she wants a partner who matches her personality and lifestyle. She also hopes to find a guy whose actions align with his love for her.

The wedding videographer explained to Us Weekly that she plans to date a man in private for a while before sharing her relationship with the world considering a romance becomes more complicated in the public eye.

Susie therefore isn't jumping at the chance to appear on Bachelor in Paradise's eighth season next summer.

"Hopefully I've got a partner of my own by then," Susie told a fan.

Susie fell hard and fast for Clayton on The Bachelor's 26th season, which aired earlier this year, but the couple went through a lot of ups and downs, including a shocking finale dumping in which Susie had rejected Clayton's final rose.

Susie and Clayton reconciled in the real world and fell in love, but they announced their split in September.

The Bachelor fans began to suspect there was trouble in paradise between Clayton and Susie in August, when Clayton revealed on an episode of Amanda Hirsch's "Not Skinny But Not Fat" podcast that the couple had decided to stop living together and planned to move to different states.

Clayton -- who had moved to Virginia Beach to be with Susie after The Bachelor -- chose Scottsdale, AZ, as his new home, and Susie considered relocating to Los Angeles.

"It's really hard because when we first broke up... my first initial feeling was, like, I felt abandoned -- that was my first feeling," Clayton admitted in a joint appearance with Susie on the "Off the Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe" podcast in early October.

"I was like, 'We're just going to end this.' I was upset. I didn't even want to look in her direction because I was like: If I look at you, the hurt is gonna tear me apart."

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Clayton and Susie explained how they broke up because neither person felt stable or fully emotionally supported in the relationship due to their insecurities and outside pressure from Bachelor Nation to be a perfect couple.

Clayton shared how it felt nearly impossible to pour into his relationship with Susie when he didn't even know what he wanted out of life and where his future was headed.

The couple also confirmed how dealing with backlash from Bachelor Nation -- including death threats sent to Clayton -- was a big factor in why they had issues and ultimately parted ways.

"I was trying to figure out what my next step was [and] I started questioning who I was because of all the negativity," Clayton said.

He added, "I started to believe some of what was being said about me. And I now look back at it and realize, like, I couldn't be that stable, secure man that I needed to be to really be able to give my all in a relationship."

Clayton said he felt the need to rehab his image and please others, all the while trying to get over death threats and handle problems in his relationship, such as wrongly being accused of cheating on Susie.

When Susie and Clayton announced their breakup in a September 23 statement, they wrote, "We stand in support of each other and hope to see the other go on to find happiness and healing. Although Claysie is no more, we hope that our communities can support us individually as we move forward with love and respect for each other."

And out of respect for each other, Susie and Clayton chose to keep some of their problems to themselves.

"There are things private to us that we will probably never talk about... and I think that's healthy and protects our mental health and what we have struggled with... We want to respect each other's boundaries," Susie said on "Off the Vine."

Clayton teased after the breakup there's a possibility he and Susie may get back together down the road, but it seems both individuals are better off dating other people.

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