Brianna LaPaglia, who is going through the identify Brianna Chickenfry, is accusing her ex, nation megastar Zach Bryan, of emotional abuse all through their dating. She additionally claims he presented her $12 million to signal a nondisclosure guarantee.
All through a pristine episode of the “BFFs” podcast, which she co-hosts with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards, the web character stated, “This episode of me not taking the money, like it’s not just for me. It’s for anyone else who’s been emotionally abused, it’s for people right now that are being emotionally abused, it’s for people that don’t have a support system that I was lucky enough to have going through this.”
She persisted, “And the last year of my life has been the hardest year of my life, dealing with the abuse from this dude. I’m still scared right now because I’m scared of him still, my brain’s rewired. I’m scared to make him mad.”
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Brianna LaPaglia, who is going through the identify Brianna Chickenfry, is accusing her ex, nation megastar Zach Bryan, of emotional abuse all through their more-than-a-year dating and of providing her $12 million to signal a nondisclosure guarantee. ( John Shearer/Getty Pictures for The Recording Academy)
LaPaglia’s accusations come two weeks later Bryan introduced the couple had damaged up, apologizing to any individual he had “let down.”
“She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her,” he wrote within the October social media put up. “I have had an incredibly hard year personally and struggled through some pretty severe things. I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go our different ways.”
He added, “I am not perfect and never will be.”
Hours later his put up, LaPaglia made a YouTube video of herself sitting on her rest room ground, pronouncing that she were “blindsided” through Bryan’s breakup put up, claiming that he hadn’t informed her that he deliberate to put up it and that she had was hoping to trade in with their fracture privately.
Brianna LaPaglia in the past stated she were “blindsided” through Zach Bryan’s family remark on their breakup. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Pictures for The Recording Academy)
She stated she couldn’t know the way an individual may just love any person “so unconditionally through stuff that you shouldn’t because you just love them, like you see the good in them” and nonetheless “be discarded of in a few days.”
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LaPaglia stated she didn’t wish to progress into feature in regards to the breakup but, as a result of she had to “heal privately” first.
On Thursday she persisted at the podcast, “Last week I didn’t want to talk about it because I was scared, so I was like ‘Yeah, we can just talk about this stuff that’s public,’ and I still said ‘F— your money,’ but you made the women before me believe that they had no other choice than to take money from you, sign their experiences away, sign what they went through away. You get to go skip off and sing your little f—ing songs on stage like you’re a good dude.”
She persisted, “I don’t want in two years to buy a f—ing house and think, ‘Oh, this is the money from the dude that literally f—ing destroyed me and broke me for a year?’ F— that, f— you, I don’t want your money.”
All through her podcast, Brianna LaPaglia stated that Zach Bryan “destroyed me and broke me for a year.” (Zach Bryan/Instagram)
“This isn’t like a drama thing for me,” she added. “This isn’t me not signing the NDA or not taking the money because I want to get on here and expose who he is and his secrets and all that s—. I didn’t take the money because I’m not signing away my experiences and what I went through to protect someone that hurt me, and I’m a lot stronger than a weak man. F— you, f— your money.”
“I’m a lot stronger than a weak man. F— you, f— your money.”
At first of the podcast, they shared a video that LaPaglia filmed of herself a presen in the past alleging that later the breakup, she were approached through his group and “offered a lot of money, a big lump sum of money and a few options. Basically, I would have gotten the money over the course of three years, I would have had to sign all of my experiences, everything that I am away to this person. They would have been monitoring everything that I do, and at the end of the three years, I’ll receive like that big lump sum of money.”
She stated she thought of taking the cash “for a second,” however discovered she’s OK on her personal and doesn’t need “blood money.”
LaPaglia made it unclouded she by no means accredited any cash, pronouncing “that’s beneath me.”
Zach Bryan and Brianna LaPaglia photographed kissing on the Grammy Awards in February. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Pictures for The Recording Academy)
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However she stated she blames herself in some ways for the tip in their dating. “Half the reason this all happened is because I let it . . . I kept showing up when I shouldn’t have, and I kept loving and giving when I shouldn’t have and that came down to, like, that’s a me problem and I think a lot of people do that. If you’re not getting the love that you’re giving, you have to walk away.”
She known as it a “blessing,” as a result of she stated she didn’t know the way lengthy she would have stayed with him another way.
She stated that later sacrificing her future to progress on excursion with the “Something in the Orange” singer, he dropped her off in Untouched York so she may just do her personal excursion for a couple of days, however she stated their interplay later felt “abrupt” and “weird.”
She recalled him telling her that later the “hardest year of his life,” he felt that he had to “sit still” and spend at some time at house” instead of going with her, and that made sense to her.
Zach Bryan and Bri LaPaglia, aka ‘Brianna Chickenfry,’ at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024. (Getty Images)
Still, they talked every day while she was on tour, and she was “glad,” but then things shifted when he stopped answering her calls and began traveling for other things away from her.
While she was touring, she claimed he had texted her and said, “‘In reality, I will’t do that anymore.’ Out of nowhere.”
She added, “I in reality assume that he wishes any individual that may be that. That may simply be ‘the girl,’ and no person must ever simply be ‘the girl,’ and I used to be so similar to only being ‘the girl.’”
“It used to be in order that out of nowhere,” she said of the breakup.
When she returned home from being on tour, she said he told her it was “future to journey out” without any discussion, despite the fact that she said that they had talked about marriage and building a life together and even kids.
“I progress away for 2 weeks to provide myself a tiny little bit of one thing, and I come house, and it’s ‘Pack your bags’? I used to be gutted,” she stated.
Brianna LaPaglia at the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards from Ford Center at The Star on May 11, 2023, in Frisco, Texas. (Gilbert Flores/Penske Media via Getty Images)
After she went home, she started to question herself, and he constantly crept into her thoughts in a bad way.
“I don’t assume that’s how any dating must ever be,” she said. “Like, after all, you consider your important alternative, however you shouldn’t consider like, ‘Is this going to upset them or is this gonna cause a fight?’ when it’s issues that shouldn’t dissatisfied crowd.”
After that, she said he begged her to take him back, and she did, but he never apologized.
“And later we going to Boston for my are living display and a batch of terrible s— came about that night time and I don’t wish to get into any main points,” she said, adding that they had talked about working things out, but then he gave her the “chilly shoulder,” and he said he was going to go back to Oklahoma.
LaPaglia said she was “blindsided” by Bryan making their breakup public. (Brianna LaPaglia/Instagram)
“Love it used to be all the time so cold and warm. I didn’t know what model I used to be taking to get ever,” she explained.
She said that the last time she saw him he refused to give her a hug and accused her of being “dramatic” when she said it felt like the last time they would be together.
“I by no means had the breakup dialog, I by no means had like a telephone name about what’s happening. I simply had argumentative phrases,” she said, saying that all she wanted was a “kinder see you.”
They finally talked about it over text, and she said he told her that going public with the breakup would be on her terms, but hours later she received messages from friends that he had created an account on dating app Raya.
“I don’t assume you wish to have Raya, you wish to have treatment,” she said in the video.
LaPaglia went off social media and asked Bryan for a week to heal, but then she was bombarded by his social media post announcing their breakup, which she said he posted because he was “stuck” on Raya.
Brianna LaPaglia said she “can’t wait to heal” from her relationship with Zach Bryan. (Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
“Everybody in my lifestyles discovered in regards to the breakup from his Instagram,” she said.
While she never got a proper goodbye, she said she got “his group attaining out to me about settlements and I were given him attaining out to me best when Dave [Portnoy] mentioned him on-line.”
“I simply can’t wait to journey ahead and heal from this,” she said, adding, “I don’t need your cash, bro.”
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During the podcast, Portnoy said the offer amounted to $12 million in “life-changing cash.”
All three co-hosts admitted they went back and forth over whether she should take the money, and Portnoy said they finally agreed, “F— the cash, we’re taking to struggle” against Bryan on the podcast, which included a diss track they made about him.
Brianna LaPaglia attends Vanity Fair Campaign Hollywood and TikTok Celebrate Vanities: A Night For Young Hollywood at Mes Amis on March 8, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images)
She said that along with the $12 million, which incrementally went up, she was also offered a house or a New York apartment by his team.
“I went thru literal narcissistic emotional abuse for a yr, and he made me imagine the whole lot used to be my fault,” she claimed. “He detached me from my complete whole lifestyles, he wouldn’t let me be who I sought after to be, he made me abhor the whole lot that I cherished about myself, he poor me indisposed and later made me really feel like he used to be all I had left, and he simply saved again and again beating me indisposed.”
She said that when they first started dating he told her, “Girls are all the time looking to destroy my lifestyles on-line” and that people just wanted money from him. “He manipulated the f— out of me,” she claimed, saying that he had been wonderful to her in the first few months of their relationship, and all of a sudden there was a switch. “I don’t know why I stayed.”
She alleged it got to the point where Bryan controlled what she wore and what she posted on social media.
“This isn’t a breakup, like I went thru a tense yr of emotional abuse. . . . This isn’t me being like I dated a douchebag who cheated on me with a lady on the bar, like that is one thing such a lot deeper than that,” she continued.
Zach Bryan performs during the Quittin Time tour at Nissan Stadium on June 29, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. ( Keith Griner/Getty Images)
LaPaglia said she thought that offering her the money was his “ultimate shot” at still trying to control her and feel like he was a good guy for leaving her with something.
She also discussed several times that his anger allegedly got out of control, including a birthday party at which she claimed he lashed out at her friends for no reason. Her aunt attempted to calm him down, and LaPaglia claimed he smashed some glass.
She also claimed he broke her phone, telling her co-hosts, “Have a look at my telephone, it’s smashed from him, he’s all the time smashed my telephone.”
Bryan hasn’t answered to LaPaglia’s accusations, regardless that he did percentage posts on his Instagram selling his pristine track, “Prime Highway,” with lyrics like “Everyone seems to be tellin’ me that I would like backup or treatment / However all I would like is to be left rejected.”
Zach Bryan performs in support of his “The Quittin Past Excursion 2024” at Ford Field on June 20, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan. (Scott Legato/Getty Images)
He also posted a link to a post by author Jack Kerouac’s estate – a photo of the late writer with the quote: “I didn’t know what to mention. I felt like crying, Goddammit everyone on this planet desires a proof to your acts and to your very being.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Bryan’s reps for comment.
