Zach Bryan’s Ex Brianna LaPaglia Alleges ‘Emotional Abuse’

Nation star Zach Bryan is now on the heart of significant allegations from his former girlfriend, Barstool podcast host and web character Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia.

In a Nov. 8 episode of the BFFs Podcast LaPaglia co-hosts with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards, she made a collection of bombshell claims, together with accusing Bryan of “emotional abuse” throughout their relationship and claiming she was supplied $12 million and a New York house to signal a non-disclosure settlement (NDA), which she refused.

“The final yr of my life has been like the toughest yr of my life coping with the abuse from this dude,” LaPaglia stated on the podcast episode. “I’m nonetheless scared proper now as a result of I’m petrified of him. My mind’s rewired, and I’m scared to make him mad.”

LaPaglia alleges the pair shared a tumultuous relationship marked by worry and management. “There was at all times one other excuse as to why he was treating me so poorly and why I’m crying myself to sleep each evening, why he’s screaming at me,” she recounted. “And then you definately get up, it’s the apology, it’s the ‘I’m going to be higher, I want you in my life.’”

She alleged that Bryan made his earlier girlfriends signal NDAs to stop them from discussing their experiences publicly. “He made the ladies earlier than me imagine that they’d no different selection than to take cash from you, signal their experiences away, signal what they went via away,” she claimed.

In response to LaPaglia, after their breakup, she was approached by Bryan’s group with a major monetary supply in trade for her silence.

“I used to be supplied some huge cash, like an enormous lump sum of cash and some choices,” she defined. “Principally, I might have gotten the cash over the course of three years. I might have needed to signal all of my experiences, every little thing that I’m, away to this individual. They might have been monitoring every little thing that I do.”

She firmly rejected the supply, stating, “I didn’t settle for any cash. I cannot settle for any cash. I feel that’s beneath me. I don’t suppose you’ll be able to pay folks off that you simply damage for them to guard you. I feel that in itself, providing hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to this obvious stunning relationship to maintain it a secret, speaks volumes.”

LaPaglia defined her need to assist others who could also be going through comparable conditions. “This isn’t about drama for me,” she stated. “That is for anybody else that’s been emotionally abused and for folks proper now being emotionally abused. It’s for those that don’t have a assist system that I fortunately had going via this.”

She recounted particular incidents throughout their relationship, together with one on the Golden Globes. LaPaglia claimed Bryan “ruined” her expertise as a result of he disapproved of her gown. “That was f—– loopy. That was the primary time he had actually tried to regulate what I wore and what I posted,” she recalled. “So I went to the Golden Globes and I posted like a carousel of images, and he didn’t like my gown.”

“He stated he didn’t wish to date somebody that presents themselves that method. And he unfollowed me, he unfollowed everybody, and I… after I flew dwelling — I flew dwelling after the Golden Globes. He ruined my evening,” continued LaPaglia.

“Every thing good, something good I did for me, he made certain to destroy it for me. He ruined my birthday, he ruined my tour, he ruined the Golden Globes. Something Brianna did for Brianna, he needed to destroy it.”

LaPaglia additionally described an alleged incident on her birthday, the place Bryan reportedly berated her mates after she had gone to mattress. “I look exterior and I’ve my aunt making an attempt to regulate Zach — there’s a recording of all of this that may by no means be out — mainly Zach stood up on the fireplace and he simply begins screaming at my mates.”

“He stood up on the fireplace and simply begins screaming at my mates, ‘You’re not going to be something, you’re a [expletive] loser.’ Simply probably the most horrible [expletive],” she defined, including that Bryan smashed glass. “It was simply loopy, fully out of nowhere, and I’m like, ‘What the [expletive]?’ However when Zach will get in that zone, there’s no containing it.”

In one other occasion, LaPaglia claimed Bryan had smashed her telephone, saying to her co-hosts, “Oh, Take a look at my telephone, it’s smashed from him, he’s at all times smashed my telephone,” including that he “will whip it at a wall.”

She additionally alleged that Bryan tried to regulate her skilled life. “He supplied to double what [Barstool Sports] supplied me in order that I might give up,” she stated. “He simply didn’t need me to do it and he at all times made it—he twisted it in my head the place he would make me be like, ‘You’re higher than this, you’re higher than Barstool, you’re destined for a lot extra.’”

LaPaglia shared that she felt remoted and misplaced through the relationship, which was made public in July 2023. They dated for over a yr earlier than he confirmed their cut up in October.

“I misplaced myself all through this complete relationship,” she admitted. “I don’t even acknowledge myself anymore. I misplaced 15 kilos I didn’t should lose within the relationship. I didn’t sleep. I used to be fully remoted from my household, from my mates, from work.”

Billboard has reached out to Zach Bryan’s representatives for remark however has not obtained a response as of publication.

It comes after co-hosts Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards launched a diss monitor geared toward Zach Bryan. The monitor, which mocked Bryan and referenced the allegations, reportedly confronted a number of takedown makes an attempt.

“We knew it was successful the second we laid it down,” Richards stated on the podcast. Portnoy added, “We obtained crybaby Bryan and the spineless PR group operating round deleting [expletive] off the web, and guess what, it’s nonetheless getting hundreds of thousands of views.”

Portnoy claimed that Bryan’s group tried to suppress the diss monitor via authorized means. “They’re making an attempt to squeeze Bri due to Josh and me,” he stated. “We’ve got nothing to do with it. Both pay her or shut the [expletive] up. I’m dropping persistence.”

The diss monitor was ultimately faraway from a number of platforms, allegedly as a consequence of takedown requests from Bryan’s group. “Their disaster administration—why he cares a lot—is, I suppose, what we’ll get into now,” Portnoy commented.

LaPaglia expressed that sharing her story was necessary not only for herself however for others in comparable conditions: “That’s why I didn’t take the cash. The message I wish to put out there may be that so many individuals undergo this, feeling trapped or considering they’ll by no means be capable of depart.”

She added later, “I hope folks can perceive what I went via this previous yr and see why I misplaced myself and wasn’t who I used to be earlier than him. However I’m again now, and I’m so blissful to simply be myself once more. No extra dictatorship right here.”

Only a day earlier than the allegations emerged, Bryan shared his newest single, “This World’s a Big,” with a a candid Instagram submit, the place he revealed his plans to pause touring to pursue a grasp’s diploma in Paris.

“After not being dwelling for a yr and a half, I drove out to my mom’s headstone at midnight… and I got here to understand similar to prior to now, that she by no means would name me once more,” he wrote, sharing a collection of photos of his late mom, Annette, and his bandmates.

Bryan continued, “I informed her I give up touring as a result of I obtained accepted to get my masters in Paris subsequent yr… I informed her about all my greatest mates in New York and all of the nights we howled with the moon… [and] about making it on The Rolling Stone.”

He expressed gratitude to followers, including, “Thanks guys for listening to ‘This World’s a Big’ final evening, and thanks to all of the individuals who love me; who’ve really carried the load with me… I’m dwelling now and I’ll maintain you thru the ache.”

You possibly can watch the complete episode right here.