Wes Hayden from The Bachelorette is in overtime, trying to clear up his “good” name.  Wes spoke out to a Texas radio station this week and claims he is not the jerk the show made him out to be.  Wes claims to be a victim of deceptive, and false editing.

On whether or not he had a girlfriend -  “I had a girlfriend last summer. She’s still a very good friend of mine. Every now and then we’ll go out and do lunch or something like that. I mean, I did some work for her mom, I’m good friends with her family,” Wes Hayden said.

“I just called [The Bachelorette producers] two weeks ago, and was like, ‘Look. I don’t care what y’all do to me. You can say I’m the worst guy in the world and I’m here for publicity, that I’ve got a girlfriend. But don’t mention anybody’s name.  As soon as you mention her name, people in Austin are going to know her, because we dated for a long time. Sure enough, they mentioned her name the very next day.”

On his limo comments in his exit interview -  You know the one where he says, “I’m the only guy in The Bachelorette history who’s made it to the top four with a girlfriend.”  Wes claims they were taken out of context.  “They don’t play what I say after that. I said, ‘Only guy in Bachelorette history to make it to the top four with a girlfriend. Get real, dude. If I had a girlfriend, I’d be home with her right now, and I wouldn’t be putting up with this $h!t.”

Wes words of wisdom to those wanting to be on Reality TV -  “I think everybody needs to remember that this is a TV show, and it’s here for ratings. If anybody wants to go on any kind of reality show they really need to consider what could happen to them, and think about it long and hard.”  He continued, “If you do go on, don’t say a whole lot, because they can pretty much do whatever they want. Basically when you sign up for a show like this you pretty much relinquish every right that you have.”

Not sure if I’m buying Wes’s excuses. Yes I believe the producers of the show can and do manipulate the things these contestants say, but Wes gave them a lot to work with.  I doubt Tanner P and Jake made up the GF story out of the blue.  He has no choice but to try to clean things up now for the sake of his “career.”

TELL US – DO YOU BELIEVE WES’S STORY?