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And it had a positive pregnancy test embedded in the email . And now I'm seeing proof of something . I just remember thinking, Oh, fuck. About eleven days earlier, former Bachelor Clayton Eckard hung out with a woman named Laura Owens . They hooked up . But here's the thing . We never slept together . We never had sex . When Clayton received that email from Laura, saying she was pregnant by him, he was in disbelief . He didn't believe the photo of the test could be real . So he invited Laura to his apartment again . The reason I invited her over was to get her to take a pregnancy test right in front of me. Laura agreed to come over, but she was a step ahead. She'd already emailed Clayton the photo, but she brought the positive pregnancy test with her to show him in person . It was one of those at home tests where one line me ans not pregnant and two lines means pregnant . On the test Laura brought, Clayton could see one very, very present line and the other one was like slightly there . Clayton did not see that coming I was having a hard time believing it because we didn't have sex , so I wanted her to take a test in front of me so that I could see it with my own eyes. Clayton told Laura he'd already purchased a test of his own and asked her if she'd mind taking a second test. I figured once I pulled out that surprise pregnancy test, she would decline to take it, that would be the end of it all . But unfortunately, that's not what happened . When he asked her to take the second test , she was like, okay, yeah, I'll do it. Laura went into the bathroom, took the test, and for the next few minutes , all Clayton could do was wait for the truth to come to light . It was a torturous five minutes that felt like an eternity because I knew that line either was or was not going to appear and that singular line would dictate the outcome of my life. I'm Stephanie Young and this is Love Trapped . Raising holy helmet love if you ever , ever , ever try to We're going to go back to the night in question, the night when Laura Owens came over to Clayton's apartment for a hookup . Clayton didn't know it at the time , but that night would change his life forever . It would set off a chain of events that would lead to a criminal investigation , and it would lead me, a curious podcaster, to Clayton Eardc'cs door. Hi Clayton, it's good to see you again. Hey, Stephan, it's good to see you . So I should probably tell you how I got here, right? Let's go back to May of twenty twenty three . Clayton wasn't in a good place at the time . He was despised by Bachelor Nation and what felt like the entire internet. He also had just met up with his ex, Susie Evans. He met her on the Bachelor. They dated for almost a year after they filmed the show , but eventually broke things off. Clayton was still torn up about it . And I thought, man , maybe this is a mistake to break up. Maybe in another world, if we didn't experience all this pain , we could have made it work . We've all been there, right? You see your ex and you suddenly start wondering if breaking up was a mistake. I was struggling and I remember I cry my eyes out This wasn't just any breakup. Clayton and Suzy had announced their split on a joint instagram post a few months earlier. Nearly a hundred thousand people liked this post. I definitely remember the hate ritual that people had for me . The comment section was particularly brutal . I remember reading comments like, Oh, this man got to have his cake and eat it too after everything he did. He didn't have to suffer at all. Suzie deserves so much better than this guy , this monster, this mess, this loser . I mean, I saw all of it. It was like as if she was dating the worst man alive . Clayton had taken a hard fall from Grace and was adjusting to his new life as a real estate agent in Scottsdale, Arizona . There, he was a big fish in a small pond, but his experience on the Bachelor left him feeling hollow . You come off the show and it's like your dopamine goes from being at maximum level to just nose diving. I was depressed. I was basically like having withdrawal effects. To help him cope, he turned to weed. Sometimes I was getting high to feel that intense high that I felt when I was the Bachelor . It wasn't always weed. Sometimes it was sex or pizza , and on a good night, a combination of all three . Dopine releasing activities, which is typically eating really good food, having sex. I just mashed them all together so I could get something close to that feeling . I was surprised at how honest Clayton was about this period of his life , but as we heard last episode, that's Clayton. Honest, maybe to a fault . In this case , his oversharing tendency is actually helpful because every detail of what happens next is important . It all started with a message on LinkedIn. We've had it read by a voice actor . Hi, I'm looking to connect with similar minded young entrepreneurs in Scottsdale. I see that you work for and I actually contacted them recently. They were going to connect me with someone who could help me find investment properties but haven't yet. Let me know if you can help . Laura saw that Clayton had just started as an agent and reached out. Clayton shared his phone number to get the ball roll ing. Laura reached out. She was looking to buy an investment property and I had just got my realtor license, so I was looking to secure my very first deal. Clayton sent over the screenshots of their initial messages . They spent a few days texting, and during the chat, Laura mentioned that she was a competitive equestrian . And then on Saturday night, may twentieth , she sent me a photo of her standing by her horse . In the photo, Laura has her backside turned to the camera. She's petting a dark brown horse. She's wearing a crop top and beige riding leggings. And just call it for what it is. She had a nice ass . When I first heard about this photo , I really thought it was going to be way more revealing than it was. That's the mind of a man right there for you. It doesn't take much. The imagination takes us the rest of the distance . Clayton was at home assembling IKEA furniture. He'd already popped an edible . I saw the photo and I was high so my mind, you know, wasn't thinking clearly. It was more sort of just thinking about what's in front of me in that moment. But I was like, look, why don't we just hang out? Laura agreed to come over that night. I asked Clayton the obvious. This was a hookup, right? Yeah, it was . Around eight PM, Laura was buzzed up to Clayton's apartment. He opened the door to find a small woman smiling up at him. She had long dark hair and she was dressed casually in a t shirt and leggings. By the time Laura arrived, Clayton was stoned. He'd taken ten milligrams , which would send me to outer space , but that was his baseline. It just makes him chattier and makes the night more enjoyable, more chill . That's what he was after, a relaxing evening . He offered Laura an edible two. I said, Hey, if you want one, I took one, you're welcome to have it. And she said, Yeah, sure, I'll take one. So they got high together and started talking. The conversation wasn't exactly foreplay , it was actually pretty intense. We talked about mental health and how I struggled with feeling like I was enough and she also struggled with feeling like she was enough in her life with her family because her family was super accomplished and she always felt like she was in the shadows of her father and her mom and even her sister who has a kid and is married . And so she feels like she, you know, has to live up to those expectations. And so that's caused her to feel like the black sheep of the family . And so I told her like I felt the same way, you know, in my life, but my middle brother, he was the superstar athlete. I was the one in his shadows trying to measure up to his success . They bonded and after an hour or two of talking on the couch , I told her to like come over closer to me and she did. And then that's when we started hooking up . And if you're wondering why we're about to go into this level of detail , I promise it becomes important to the story . She gets on top of me , but then she stopped me and was like, Hey, I don't want to have sex tonight . And I said, oh, okay,, that's that's totally fine. She's like not on the, first night. We can do it at a later point. This just gives you another reason to like see me again. Laura was still down to hook up, but wanted to keep penetrative sex off the table for the first night. According to Clayton , they headed to the bedroom and had oral sex. We lay there, we fall asleep in the bed . And a few hours later , we wake up, start making out again . She does oral again , and then she ran to the bathroom like immediately after . The next morning, Clayton was hit with a wave of regret. Laura was his client. This could be his first real estate deal, and he might have just blown it, so to speak. He started kicking himself for crossing a professional boundary, but Laura was still interested in working with him. In fact, the two of them made plans later that afternoon to look at a couple homes. She ended up staying overnight, stayed until the early morning. She then left. I went to church, cleared my mind and then ended up meeting back up with her to show homes later that day. Clayton wanted to keep Laura as a client. So at the end of their home tours , she's all in this happy mood and I felt really bad. So I was like, we got to talk . Sitting in his car, he found the right moment to finally tell her what was on his mind. I feel bad because I didn't explain my intentions last night I'm not looking to date and my intentions were to just have a fun night. That was just a one time thing and I want you to know that because I don't want there to be miscommunication going forward. She quickly jumped in and said, No, no, no, I have to apologize at all. Like, I'm so grateful, I'm happy last night happened. I had so much fun. Clayton had fun too, but he felt like he'd crossed a professional line, and that wasn't how he wanted to start off his real estate career . So he offered to make it right with Laura and find her a new agent to work with. She said, No, no, I want to work with you. It's not awkward at all, but like, you know, can you just keep an open mind like that maybe there could be something between us? She wasn't getting the picture, so at that point , he had to make himself crystal clear. What happened the night before was never happening again again . After telling Laura no , like there's no future here between us the tone had shifted and then she started to cry and I remember that moment it was this kind of like, o ohh , , wow, this is way more intense than I anticipated this would be. I mean, I just met this woman and now she's crying in my car and she's telling me, well, hey, I really thought that we have a lot in common. We both have struggled with self confidence and self love. And so I really feel that I can help you find that within you and also within myself at the same time . And it was it was just such an intense but like awkward situation because I didn't feel at all the same way that she felt I was trying to be mindful of her emotions and say hey, , this is how she feels. So I need to give weight to this scenario, but there was a disconnect because my brain was telling me you've not even known this woman long enough for this to be like an actual realistic response. Like this is way out of the norm . It had only been five days since Laura's initial LinkedIn message , and yet Laura kept pushing, almost begging for Clayton to give her a chance. I finally got annoyed. I said, Laura, no means no . And when I said that , she went from crying to her face going completely stone cold . She'd stared at me and just shakes her head and goes, No, I get it . Thanks for letting me know. Have a good rest of your day . Gave me a weird smile , opened the car door , closed it, walked off . Something about her reaction was deeply unsettling. I remember just getting chills over my entire body . When he told her he didn't want to hook up again , it was like a switch flipped . Something was off because that look she gave me. It's like the lights went off in the house and she was no longer there . Not the version of Laura that I knew up until that point . Clayton knew he'd made a mistake , at least professionally , but he had no idea what he'd just stepped into. I sat there as I watched her walk back to her car and I go, I don't know what that was , but whatever that was, that's not the end of it . Valvelline, instant oil change presents wisdom from the road. Summer means wide open spaces and a whole lot of extra miles. The last place you want your engine to give out is halfway to nowhere. Out here, low oil or a weak battery is just an ambush waiting to happen. That's why every oil change at Baveline Instant Oil Change includes an eighteen point maintenance check. These checks are trained to help spot issues early and keep your riding easy. Bavel instant oil changeanged. Ch wisely . In the moment, it felt like it was going on forever. I didn't think I was gonna live . I was terrified . 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The two biggest questions I get when I tell people about this story are Was Laura a contestant on Clayton season of the Bachelor , which is an easy one to answer. No . That's usually always followed up with, then who is Laura Owens ? Truth be told, that's the question I've been trying to answer for the last six months. I've reached out to her former friends, teachers, attorneys, colleagues , and I'm either met with people who don't want anything to do with this , or they don't respond at all. And of course, I reached out to Laura herself . At the time I'm recording this, she hasn't agreed to an interview, but she did send me a long email . We'll get into that later. I want to start by playing you, Laura's side of the story. What you're about to hear is the real Laura Owens , telling the court her version of what happened with Clayton Eckard . He was my realtor to start with and then we intimate one night in May of this year. After that on june first, I found out that I was pregnant and I figured he probably wouldn't believe it. So I went to urgent care and had it confirmed there a doctor and then I told him I hadn't been intimate with anyone else since March of twenty twenty two . I have tried to get Clinton to accept responsibility and figure out a parenting plan with me , but that's really been it. It's not like it's been a dating relationship and we've communicated via email for the most part . I wanted to get a picture of who Laura is outside of this case . That turned out to be more elusive than I expected. The good news is , Laura's been posting online for the better part of fifteen years. She's appeared in videos and podcasts, she's written media articles and was actively replying to comments on Reddit . One of the most interesting things she's appeared in is a series of YouTube videos where she's talking with one of her attorneys, David J ingris . We will be playing audio from videos David posted to his YouTube channel , which have since been pulled down . Fortunately, we were able to obtain a copy before they were removed. Here's the start of one of those videos. You'll hear David first. I think we need to have the public get to know you a little bit better . We need to do this a bit more often and try to take some control back of the narrative . In the videos, Laura's attorney asks her get to know you questions . I feel dirty like asking these questions because I just feel like it's nobody's effing business, but let's go ahead and talk about it because I think you're okay with it. So let's talk about your high school dating career. I mean, my high school dating career is pretty damn exciting. Let's hear about yours. Mine was I'm sure the opposite of yours . I had no boyfriends in high school . I didn't have my first kiss until the week before graduation . It's pretty uncommon for a lawyer to make social media content with a client, especially a client involved in a high profile scandal. I mean what I say as far as I want both sides of the story to be out there and I don't want people to be mad at anybody. You shouldn't be mad at Laura. I mean, Laura, look, obviously, if you lied and made the whole thing up, you know, you deserve some punishment. I've said that all along, that if that's what the facts bear out, I'm not going to stand by your side. I'm not here to defend people that do stuff like that . In these videos, her attorney David does most of the talking. You're a little different. You know you're a little different. I've said that you're a little different. I think you suffer from having an unbelievably high IQ. I think you're a very, very bright girl . And I think you're just a little different . Laura Owens grew up in San Francisco , where her parents were local celebrities. Good morning. I'm Ron Owens, KGO radio Monday through Friday, nine, until noon, and today we are also on CSPAN so Laura's father, Ron Owens, is a radio hall of Famer. He hosted a popular radio talk show on KGO in San Francisco . It ran for over forty years . Ron was definitely at the top of the heap . He was a very trusted voice. That's long tayime B Area reporter Martha Ross. I called her for some more context about Ron Owens and his show . He would always have the best political leaders on like a movie star coming through you always felt like you would learn something . Laura's mom, Jan Black, was a drivetime news anchor at two local radio stations, KGO and KCBS . When Laura was a kid, her parents were kind of a media power couple in town . They would go to all the best restaurants , and when Ron was out at restaurants, he'd be recognized by fans . When then Senator Obama was starting his first presidential campaign , he went on the Ron Owens report. It's our number two, Ron Owens KGR radio in the studio, Senator Barack Obama. Not much of a buzz around you, but it's interesting to have you on and it's very good to meet you. Ron Owens got an hour with Obama . I spoke to a former producer at KGO who told me about how other local reporters lined up down the hallway to try to get a clip from Obama afterwards. All that to say, Ron Owens was a big deal . If you're president, ninety days I get the interview in the Oval Office with you. It's got to be in the Oval Office. I need to check with a secretv Siceer. Is that allowed? You will get an interview . You will get an interview in the house. In the first day, you will get an interview. Her dad's fame is a big part of Laura's origin story. Here's another clip from Laura and her attorney. Your dad had a hell of a career . Is that him in Obama? Wow. Yeah . I had no idea when I got involved in this case, you know, what kind of a career. I didn't know how significant of a broadcasting guy your dad was. Well, she never fully got into radio, Laura co hosted a podcast with her mom, Jan Black . It was a self help podcast, and Laura's mom worked her media connections . They had famous guests on the podcast like Bob Saget , Elizabeth Smart, and Dr. Drew Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. We are a mother daughter duo and today we're a mother daughter trio as we're joined on this episode by my other daughter, Sarah Owens, my older daughter, who is also Laura's sister . The Owens family is exceptionally tight knit. Laura's thirty five now. She lives with her parents . From what she's posted online, she's talked about feeling socially isolated. Here's that video with her attorney again It wasn't like I was the least popular kid in school or anything . I just really kept myself and I was just obsessed with whole like horse showing, starting a business, doing like flipping horses and stuff. I was very different from everybody. When she says flipping horses, she means as a business . The Owens family runs a company called Quartet Farms . They buy, sell, and lease high end horses. You obviously are a horse person. When did that start? That started when I was eight and there was a stable that was just ten minutes away at the time in Golden Gate Park, so it was convenient . These show horses can cost up to eighty thousand dollars . They can be a risky investment . But Laura's family seem to have the money. Here's her dad Ron in a twenty thirteen interview . My daughters are twenty two and twenty four. The younger one is very much into country music and horses , which have enabled me to go broke pretty much . And I'm very proud of her, but damn, that's expensive She's been competing in horse shows for her entire life . She's actually really good . She's won numerous competitions. Far one four hundred eighty Laura Owens . The Owens family clearly has a soft spot for animals. Here's a clip from Laura's podcast with her mom. They had her dad on for a Father's Day episode. What were the first things that we talked about? That you and I talked about, probably horses, no Animals, probably . Animals because you loved every animal. And you have really done a number with me because now I'm as bad as you are. I just look at every animal and I at every dog and then yeah, just bring 'em on . I talked to someone who works at a San Francisco Dog Rescue. They told me that over the years, the Owens family has adopted eleven senior dogs near the end of their li ves. Here's Laura, showing off her senior dog to her attorney. Let's see the dog. Here's one of the dogs. What's his name? Captain. He's the one who's a million years old. In terms of her career, Laura's mostly worked for her family businesses , either the horse farm or the podcast with her mom . At one time, Laura's LinkedIn profile listed her as a radio dating and relationship expert and songwriter. My younger daughter is on the cusp of becoming a country music singer. She has written songs and she is in the midst of mastering this first song and I gotta tell you it's phenomenal . That was Laura's dad Ron, talking about Laura's singing career in an interview. She's posted some of her music online. Here's a clip from one of Laura's songs I know who I rescued you . It's called Dogs The truth is you rescued me You rescued me . Laura and I are around the same age, and honestly, on paper, she had it all . She had the kind of privileged upbringing people dream of , and yet I got the sense that she was still searching for something. What really struck me during my research though , was the silence . In the bachelor world, there's almost always someone willing to stick up for both sides . But as I reached out to people, hardly anyone would go to bat for her. There was one person who gave me a substantial response about Laura. It was a former friend of hers . This friend asked me not to use her name. She didn't want to participate in the podcast, but in response to me she wrote something cryptic . She said , I'm not really the type to follow this stuff, but I do know, innately, that people are fighting their own battles , and I think compassion , even in the face of deep frustration, goes a long way. I think she's referring to battles Laura's facing internally , battles that would soon be on full display . My name is Laura Owens and I just feel like it's important for me to speak out and say that this is This is how I'm feeling as a result of what they've done to me . And this is how it looks like if you've been cyber bullied . As I have at mischaracteriz ed for months Valvoline instant will change . If your service lads on trust the text with the train, that's us. two hundred and seventy hours with zero complainin'. They train under the hood . They train down in the pit down in two hundred and seventy hours means there training's legit. It's the smart choice for smart folk who care for their steed. So trust the instant oil chase that starts with Valvoline Valine instant oil change. Change wisely . In the moment, it felt like it was going on forever. I didn't think I was going to live . I was terrified There was no anything inside those eyes. They turned black . It scared the hell out of me. That was your first murder case. Yes, Your Honor. Fair to say this was the biggest case your career? Yes, sir. Rape the murder from a youngest pole year old child. Bad as he gets. I would think so . People wake up. I'm the one that saw the murder take place by Creme and DePipo. Anthony depippo showed no signs of remorse , appearing unfazed after being sentenced to the maximum. 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Welcome to Sweep three hundred five where the Good Chat comes to life. What up? serving . Yes. Set miamante. You're the only person I know that loves the yellow starburst. This is Sweet three hundred five. Listen to Sweet three hundred five with Lipons as part of my Gulgura podcast network on the iHart Radio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts Clayton was sitting in his car, trying to process the conversation he'd just had with Laura . He told her he was n't interested in continuing any type of romantic relationship with her. When he said that? Laura said, No, I get it. Have a great day. She got out of my car, she slammed that car door I remember just getting chills over my entire body . Clayton drove away and he was relieved but disturbed . It was a very, very unsettling feeling . And I just remember thinking , I don't know what that was , but whatever that was, it's not over . There's something more that's to come from all of this. Within a couple of hours, his phone began blowing up with texts from Laura. Well, what if we just go out and grab drinks? Let's just like not jump too far ahead, you know, and I said, Hey, like , we can go out and grab drinks once we end up getting the deal done . But Laura wasn't getting the message . She kept asking for a chance. Her texts are being read by a voice actor . I honestly didn't expect to like you as much as I did and, I'm very sad that you pretty much closed the door. I truly have no expectations except to see if that naturally develops without your halting it. I'm just asking you to consider. It pains me that you won't even consider giving me a chance. You've tried a lot of things, but you haven't tried me who actually empathizes and has been in dark spots like you've been in. And God. What if you just honestly and openly gave it a week to be open to something maybe eventually happening with absolutely no expectations . Clayton let Laura down gently again , apologized to Laura, and reiterated that he just wanted to be friends . She was texting me a lot and it was just overwhelming but also like really weird . Clayton told me he started to feel uncomfortable, but he was still trying to make his first real estate sale, and Laura was still adamant about Clayton being her realtor. She asked to look at another property, so Clayton set it up and met Laura there a couple days later. At the time, I was new to real estate, so I didn't know what to look for as far as understanding how serious someone is at purchasing a home. There are obvious signs. People like open drawers, they'll like close every cabinet, see if it's soft cloth es, but they're looking behind every little corner . She wasn't doing that. Laura seemed less interested in the house and more interested in Clayton. We were walking through the house and I remember it had a couch that I ended up sitting down on to talk with her about the house, if she liked it . She ended up sitting down right next to me, like as if we were dating, there was no distance between us, and she end up like resting her head on my shoulder . As you can imagine, Clayton was frustrated that she wasn't respecting his boundaries. She wasn't listening to what I was saying , but again, I wanted my money. He's talking about the real estate commission he would get from the sale. I just need to get through this next month and then it's a goodbye. I have a great one. But once they went their separate ways after seeing the property , the texts continued . Would you be really mad if I told you that you looked super handsome and that combined with you being super confident and smart about everything made it hard to keep my hands to myself ? If that makes you mad, I'm really sorry . I want to respect your boundaries, but I didn't know if that was maybe a somewhat reciprocated feeling . And I can't stop thinking about how much I want to do to you what I did the other night . Laura was ignoring the lines Clayton had drawn , so he told her let's keep this friendly amongst one another. Like only talk to me in the way that you would talk to me as if I were a friend . Despite being frustrated with Laura's behavior, Clayton was really trying to give her the benefit of the doubt so he could help her buy investment properties. The real est ate process was typically pretty easy to navigate. Honestly, writing a real estate contract, putting an offer on a house is very simple. You go see the house , then afterwards, you sit there with your realtor and you say, I want to write an offer at these terms. So you put down the amount of money you want to offer, whether you're doing cash or loan . And that's really it. And you say, I'd like to close on this date and then you take that formal document, you email it to the listing agent and there you go. You have an official offer. This process with Laura wasn't simple . She told Clayton she wanted to make some offers and asked him to write up the contracts . But she continued to complicate things. She said, thinking about it, like if you're not going to, you know, give me a chance, there's so many other agents out there that I could work with instead of you . By now, Clayton was convinced Laura had no interest in actually buying property. He told her he'd get the contracts ready, but because he didn't trust her, he hadn't actually done it. done it. I knew that she wasn't actually serious about buying the homes . She was just using the contracts to stay in touch with me and to try to continue a connection. That's when Clayton hit his breaking point. So I said, You know what, Laura, I'm going to make a decision to cut this off. I'm going to send you to one of my coworkers and they can help you from here on out. Laura did not like that at all, so she took matters into her own hands. She messaged the sell ing agents directly to check the status of her offers , and since Clayton didn't actually submit her contracts, she was given the news that they didn't exist. And there went the first oh shit moment . She's clinging onto this contract and that opened the door to the pressure that she could put on me to be like, why are they saying this? Why don't they have offers? You said you sent them. Did you lie to me? Because you'd be violating your fiduciary responsibilities? And now because I'm not dating her, she's going to try to get my license revoked. And to make a long story short, that's exactly what Laura did. A few weeks later, she reached out to the Arizona Department of Real Est ate to file a complaint . On paper, I violated a fiduciary responsibility. I lied to a client, which I admit, I did , but I told them with good purpose, with good reason. I sent them over all of those text messages I had up until that point and it was very apparent that this woman was just trying to date me and she had no intention of buying real estate . And while the Arizona Department of Real Estate believed his side of the story , they also found him in violation . With that information, they stated that yes, while you were in the wrong, we will not be pursuing any type of punishment . So I got off basically without any bumps or bruises . Clayton had his suspicions about Laura and felt he needed to dig a little bit deeper . What he found on her Instagram validated his beliefs . She followed athletes and celebrities and good looking guys . She was absolutely targeting a man and had a particular type that she was after. Clayton removed himself as Laura's realtor her five days after they hooked up . At this point, he had rejected her romantically and now professionally . He told her he would not be responding to any further texts from her. That didn't stop Laura. She immediately responded with a long text message We've had it read by a voice actor. I have one final thing to say that I think you might find important and have nothing to lose by sharing it with you. I have been in a dark place as I said yesterday and emotionally tortured since we hooked up because I felt like I didn't know how to bring this up to you . But at this point, I might as well . I have not been on birth control since fifteen months ago . There hasn't been a reason, since as I said, I hadn't done anything with anyone since then. Being sexually responsible was not on my radar after taking the gummy and our clothes coming off. When I went to the bathroom afterwards , some of your fluids were down there. That is Laura's version of what happened in the bathroom after her hookup with Clayton . Later, her account of this night would change dramatically . But her text continued, with Laura saying , In all honesty, I was planning to take Plan B when I got home, but then when you said you were going to church, I realized you had a strong faith base as well and questioned whether or not it was a sign that I should. Then, after we talked in the car , I felt even more so like both of us had a deep belief in God and like it was a sign I should just leave it up to him and not buy it . Laura was now bringing religion into the conversation . I knew what she was doing. I mean, she was trying to weaponize Christianity against me. She wanted me to to think like what would God think about this ? Laura's text continued on. The next paragraph included a kind of forewarning. My podcast had a fertility test kit as a sponsor , and so yes , I know I'm fertile . At this point, for my overwhelming research on plan B since Sunday , it's most effective three days after but can still work five days out, meaning this is the last day I could take it and have a hope of it working if it needs to. If you have any thoughts about this, I'm open to hearing you out if and only if you are kind and respectful. This has been extremely stressful on me. If I don't hear back from you, I'm not going to take Plan B . When I read the full transcript of their texts from these early weeks, I was overwhelmed . There's an increasing urgency in her tone, and she's starting to set conditions and deadlines for Clayton . He told me that he tried to remain calm in his replies and give her as little emotional response as possible . He felt uncomfortable being asked to make a decision about plan B. She knew her own body better than he did. To me, it's a woman in her body, so ultimately, I don't really have much of a say in it . I And never really push. I'm just like, hey, if you're comfortable, then yeah, take it. It would make me feel more comfortable . And that's usually how it goes. It's very simple. So this was obviously way, way different. Laura was being very odd about it. Putting way too much on me to make the decision . She concludes a text message with you're obviously free to think that I'm full of shit, but I'm not. I'll take it as a sign that you don't care what happens either way and will just allow God's will, whatever that is, to be the determining factor. If I do test positive in a few weeks, though there is a zero percent chance of it being anyone's but yours , I'd take any test to prove it . And at that point, any input from you won't matter . Clayton's response was direct and simple . I gave her a really quick answer. Just take the plan B, I support that. After Clayton sent that message, Laura responded with another lengthy text that was similar to the one before it . That's when Clayton blocked her , but shortly after, she messaged him from another phone number . This is where it was a whirlwind of text messages. She'd probably text me twenty five, thirty times a day. It was getting ridiculous. Hi, it's Laura, and this is my work number ving. iss Huesa with my personal number when I tried to send this or if you think I'm trying to hold on , you need to check your ego. I'm not lying. And if you think I haven't been tortured about whether or not to take plan B, you're crazy. I think you're confusing me with girls who come from a very different background than mine. Don't tell me I can't keep my story straight when I don't have one. I have the truth which isn't changing. I wasn't quite as high as you were and definitely remember what happened and what I felt. Because I didn't know if it was possible to get pregnant without intercourse. It is. I think we're both panicked and not in the right mindset. You're not acting great, but neither am I. If I am in fact pregnant, blocking my number won't prevent you from knowing about it. Trust me, you will find out right away despite that and I won't be having an abortion under any circumstances. It felt like Laura was getting ahead of herself, since at that point , she didn't even know if she was actually pregnant . Playton decided to block her other number as well , but Laura didn't let that stop her. She had promised he'd find out the news one way or another , and she stayed true to her word . Eleven days after they met up , she sent him an email with the news that she was pregnant. If I remember correctly, I was in my apartment and the email comes through