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‘Bachelor’ Alum Clayton Echard Shares Apparent Receipt for Paternity Test

'The Bachelor' alum posted what appears to be a receipt from Ravgen Diagnostics for $725 along with an email confirmation in his Instagram Stories

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Clayton Echard has apparently made good on his agreement to take a paternity test in his case with a woman who claims to be pregnant with his twin children.

The Bachelor alum posted what appears to be a receipt from Ravgen Diagnostics for $725 along with an email confirmation in his Instagram Stories on Thursday.

“This is the timeline,” he wrote on the photos of the receipt and the email. “The truth will always set you free.”

Ravgen is a Columbia, Md.-based company that offers “a variety of noninvasive prenatal tests that simply require a safe blood draw from the mother,” according to the company’s website.

According to court records obtained Tuesday by Page Six, a former one-night stand is accusing the Bachelor alum of fathering the babies, who are due in February.

Echard reportedly dodged requests to take a paternity test for months, but now it appears he’s making good on the promise to do so.

The apparent email “confirmation of test” reads: “Thanks for the call, [redacted] My confusion has been cleared up. I will take my portion of the test on 27th of September. [Redacted] will take her portion on 2nd of October. Results will then take about a week to get back. I believe we’re all on the same page now. Thank you!”

According to a previous Page Six report, the two sides were due to meet in court on Sept. 28.

In her lawsuit, the woman — a 33-year-old podcast host from Scottsdale, Ariz., who wishes to remain anonymous — claims Echard said he would take a prenatal paternity test on Aug. 23, but later "refused" and she was forced to cancel the appointment, which came with a $725 deposit.

The woman — who claims to have had sex with Echard in May — alleges she found out about the pregnancy June 1 and immediately alerted the reality TV star.

Echard repeatedly doubted his paternity and even texted her to get an abortion, according to the woman, which she submitted to the court via screenshot.

"I would like for you to get an abortion (if you are pregnant with my child, which I still don't believe, but it doesn't really matter either way)," he allegedly texted her. "If you do not, that's your choice. Then, in that case, if it ends up being my child, I have decided that either you'll take 100% custody of the child, or it will be put up for adoption. I will not be raising it in any capacity."

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