The drama continues.
Barstool Sports personality Brianna Chickenfry has been in the spotlight quite a bit since her high-profile relationship, and explosive breakup, with country superstar Zach Bryan. She’s spoken extensively about the abuse she said she endured during the relationship, and of course the $12 million she was reportedly offered to sign an NDA after they split, and I think we’ve all heard a lot about her side of the story in terms of what went down behind the scenes.
Regardless of who did what, I think it’s extremely obvious it was not a great relationship and they were not a good match, but Brianna has always stood by the fact that she is telling the truth about her perspective and experiences with him.
And yesterday, she shared a video on TikTok talking about how she was up all night struggling with self doubt and anxiety, and how her friend Shawn Johnson, her co-star on this season of Special Forces, had sent her a much-needed pick me up with a flower delivery.
She shared the video with the caption:
“It’s so funny how the universe works. I was up until 6am last night struggling with my insomnia/anxiety the root of it being, you guessed it… self doubt. So grateful to have met an angel like Shawn!”
@ihatebriannachickenfryIt’s so funny how the universe works. I was up until 6am last night struggling with my insomnia/anxiety the root of it being, you guessed it, self doubt. So grateful to have met an angel like Shawn!♬ original sound – Brianna LaPaglia
But it was a comment about her ex, Zach Bryan, that is catching the attention of fans.
Several months ago, he leaked, and quickly deleted, text messages between the two of them, but since then, I haven’t heard about him speaking about her publicly so I’m not exactly sure what this fan is referencing with the comment below, where she say that Zach has said she’s “been lying about him on the internet.”
The most direct thing he’s done in terms of this whole breakup is share these texts, though a fan left the following comment, saying they “admired” Brianna’s strength to hold back in terms of dropping receipts about everything that happened, which she threatened to do at one point but never did, probably for legal reasons:
“Ok but what about Zach saying you’ve been lying about him on the internet… I admire your strength because I’d be dropping the receipts so quick.”
Brianna replied to the fan, saying simply that her ex-boyfriend would have “sued… for defamation” if she had “lied about a single thing”:
“Like bro would have sued me for defamation if I lied about a single thing.”
Whether you like her or not, that’s true… not necessarily the defamation thing (nobody really wants to get wrapped up in a lawsuit when 1. you don’t need the money, 2. the damage on your reputation is already done, and 3. you have to air out your dirty laundry in court). But Zach has never come out and explicitly denied any of her specific stories, which you would think he would do at the very least had she lied about any of it. His technique seems to be just to ignore everything, which probably isn’t a bad idea for either of them at this point.
Maybe he doesn’t want the added drama, but with these two, that never seems to be the case… and if someone was saying the things Brianna has said about him about me, and they weren’t true, I would certainly be letting the public know that because it has done a lot of damage to his reputation. Obviously, it hasn’t hurt his music career at all…
I really don’t think either of them are incredible people, and I’m not on anyone’s side, but if he was willing to have her sign a multi-million dollar NDA, I would think he’d be willing to at least threaten to sue if she was out here making up horrible things about him… or like I said, he would have at least denied some of it publicly.
It seems as though Zach has gone through some sort of transformation over the last couple months, though, as he shared on Instagram this week that he’s been sober for two months and has been focusing on his mental health, so hopefully that’s the case and he can continue down that path in terms of getting healthier both physically and mentally.
