paragraphs in comment_content?

i’m just building my own theme from scratch and everything went fine so far, until now.

i just don’t get wordpress to give out formatted comments (that is comments with paragraphs)

and i don’t know where i could possibly have made a mistake, since is get the comments directly from the database…

$comment_array = array_reverse(get_approved_comments($wp_query->post->ID));
if ($comment_array) {
  for($count; $count >= 0; $count--){
    $comment_text = $comment_array[$count]->comment_content;
    echo $comment_text;
  }
}