Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia is taking to the airwaves to say that former boyfriend Zach Bryan provided her a $12 million NDA after the breakup − and that she turned it down.
The nation star introduced Oct. 22 that he and LaPaglia had cut up. Now, two weeks after their breakup, LaPaglia, 25, is opening up about her relationship with Bryan, 29, for the primary time on the “BFFs Podcast” she cohosts with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards.
“The final 12 months of my life has been the toughest 12 months of my life, like, coping with abuse from this dude,” she mentioned. “Like, I am nonetheless scared proper now ‘trigger I am terrified of him.”
She didn’t go into element in regards to the actual nature of the alleged abuse.
LaPaglia added: “This episode of me not taking the cash, like, it isn’t only for me. It is for anybody else that is been emotionally abused. It is for folks proper now which are being emotionally abused. It is for folks that do not have a assist system that I used to be fortunately sufficient to have going by this.”
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Brianna LaPaglia: Zach Bryan’s staff provided ‘large lump sum of cash’
In a clip featured on the high of this week’s podcast episode, LaPaglia mentioned after her breakup with Bryan she was “approached by his staff and I used to be provided some huge cash, a giant lump sum of cash and some choices.”
“Principally, I’d have gotten the cash over the course of three years and I’d have needed to signal all of my experiences, all the pieces that I’m, away to this individual,” she defined. “I do not suppose you possibly can pay folks off that you simply damage for them to guard you. That in itself, providing thousands and thousands of {dollars} to this obvious stunning relationship, to maintain it a secret, speaks volumes … I didn’t settle for any cash, I cannot settle for any cash.”
Later within the episode, LaPaglia and her cohosts revealed she allegedly turned down $12 million in change for signing a non-disclosure settlement (NDA). “It was by no means in regards to the cash, I used to be with the dude as a result of I beloved the dude,” she mentioned in regards to the NDA.
She additionally claimed that girls who had been beforehand with him had been made to signal NDAs. “You made the ladies earlier than me consider that they’d no different alternative however to take cash from you,” LaPaglia alleged.
Zach Bryan broadcasts cut up from Brianna LaPaglia: ‘I respect and love her’
Final month, when Bryan introduced his cut up from LaPaglia, he mentioned: “I respect and love her with each ounce of my coronary heart. She has beloved me unconditionally for a really very long time and for that I am going to all the time thank her.”
He continued: “I’ve had an extremely exhausting 12 months personally and struggled by some fairly extreme issues. I believed it might be useful for each of us to go our alternative ways. I’m not good and by no means will probably be. Please respect Brianna’s privateness and house on this and when you’ve got it in your coronary heart, mine too.”
Shortly after Bryan’s announcement, LaPaglia responded with a message of her personal.
“Hey guys I am feeling actually blindsided proper now,” she wrote on her personal Instagram story. “Gonna hop off social media for some time and try and heal privately, after I’m prepared I’ll be again and able to discuss.”
“How are you going to give somebody all the pieces and love them so unconditionally, like by stuff that you simply should not, … how are you going to give each ounce of your self to somebody and be discarded of in just a few days?” LaPaglia wrote, telling followers she did not need to discuss particulars and “proper now, I wished to heal privately.”
On Thursday, she mentioned: “My mind’s rewired and I am scared to make him mad and final week, I did not need to discuss it ‘trigger I used to be scared.”
Contributing: Jay Stahl, Taijuan Moorman
