After greater than a year of dating, nation vocalist Zach Bryan and Barstool Sports individuality Brianna LaPaglia (called Brianna Chickenfry) have actually separated.
On Oct 22, the “Something in the Orange” vocalist required to his Instagram Stories to disclose that the pair have actually split means. “Brianna and me have broken up with each other and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart,” he composed. “She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her. 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. I am not perfect and I never will be.”
Despite what looked like a friendly declaration, LaPaglia took place to disclose on her Stories that she was “blindsided” by his news, and clarified in a follow-up YouTube video clip, “I wasn’t ready to do anything publicly and now I’m just getting a bajillion freakin’ texts and s—. I just wanted to handle this as a human first and now it’s not that. I’m just asking if you could please respect my privacy right now and when I’m ready to talk about everything that happened, I will.”
She did so on the BFFs Podcast, which LaPaglia co-hosts with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards. During the episode, she made a collection of bombshell cases, consisting of charging Bryan of “emotional abuse” throughout their partnership and asserting she was supplied $12 million and a New York home to authorize a non-disclosure contract (NDA) regarding their partnership, which she stated she rejected.
As details bordering the break up remains to unravel, we’ve assembled a complete timeline of Zach Bryan and Brianna Chickenfry’s partnership. See it listed below.
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May 11, 2023: Bryan & LaPaglia Meet at the Academy of Country Music Awards
LaPaglia fulfilled the nation vocalist at the 2023 ACM Awards, where she asked him to take a picture. To now, the StrategyBri Uncut host claims that both “didn’t say anything to each other” past positioning for the picture, as they were both in partnerships.
She also vlogged her experience satisfying him on her YouTube network here, calling him “the nicest man I’ve ever met.”
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June 2023: “Revival”
LaPaglia and her cohost Richards participated in Bryan’s performance at New York City’s Forest Hills Stadium, a couple of weeks after Bryan split from his ex-girlfriend, Deb Peifer. LaPaglia and Richards joined him onstage for “Revival,” however clarified on BFFs that she and Bryan didn’t talk in any way at the occasion, however he glided right into her DMs soon after.
“I was still with my boyfriend at the concert. And then, a few days later, me and Joey break up. And [Bryan] had already broken up with his girlfriend, and then he f—in’ slid into my DMs,” she remembered. “I made a podcast after we went onstage and was like, ‘Eat the rich besides Zach Bryan’ and he posted it and then he DM’d me and said, ‘That was so sweet, thank you guys for coming.’ And then we just started chatting.”
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July 2023: Relationship Confirmed on ‘PlanBri Uncut’
“I think I might have some stuff to address: I’ve been hanging out with a guy named Zach,” she told Grace O’Malley, her long time pal and co-host. “We’re just hanging out, having fun, and that’s where I’ve been, that’s what I’ve been doing, that’s what I’m gonna be doing for a little bit. We’ll see where it goes, and I’m happy.”
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August 4, 2023: Instagram Official
In a picture dump captioned, “Life lately,” LaPaglia included a photo of Bryan taking pleasure in a soft-serve gelato.
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August 26, 2023: TikTok Support
Shortly after launching his self-titled cd in August 2023, LaPaglia required to her TikTok to share a video clip of herself preparing to his track, “Smaller Acts.” See it here.
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January 7, 2024: LaPaglia Attends the Golden Globes
LaPaglia strolled the red carpeting at the 2024 Golden Globes, and shared a carousel of photos including her clothing, a shimmering sweetie neck line dress with a high slit. At the moment, Bryan shared the article to her Instagram Stories, calling LaPaglia “beautiful.”
However, after the break up, LaPaglia affirmed that the duo entered a disagreement that evening since he “didn’t like” her clothing. “He said he didn’t want to date someone that presents themselves that way. And he unfollowed me, he unfollowed everyone, and I… when I flew home — I flew home after the Golden Globes. He ruined my night,” she clarified on the BFFs podcast. “He’s like delighted in the starting after that suddenly, it transforms to, ‘I can’t think you’re using this … blah blah blah blah.’ “
She proceeded, “It ruins the night. I’m crying to Grace [O’Malley] the whole f—ing night, and he unfollows me because of the dress. He tells me all the Instagram pictures that I have that I have to delete, and I’m like, ‘Okay, yeah, I guess.’ He makes me believe that I have to change my image to to keep up with his or something.”
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February 2024: Red Carpet Debut
LaPaglia and Bryan strolled the 2024 Grammys red carpeting as a pair, with the vocalist using an all-black fit and connection set, while the podcast host matched in a customized, lacy black outfit from Undone by Kate.
Bryan was up for 3 honors that night, and wound up winning his first-ever Grammy for ideal nation duo/group efficiency for his Kacey Musgraves cooperation, “I Remember Everything.”
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May 14, 2024: Off-Road Vehicle Crash
“Two nights ago, Zach and I got into a traumatizing side-by-side crash,” LaPaglia remembered in a video clip shared to TikTok. “It flipped a bunch of times, everything shattered and thank god we had our seatbelts on.”
She proceeded, “There was a lot of blood and we thought — we were saying goodbye to each other.” LaPaglia kept in mind that when paramedics got here to the scene, they dealt with Bryan by offering him stitches. “It was a huge gash, but we are OK. We are happy and alive,” she shared, keeping in mind that she experienced a number of contusions and scrapes from the damaged glass. Thankfully, in spite of the collection of unfavorable occasions, Bryan was still able to proceed his excursion, doing on May 13 and 14 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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July 2024: One-Year Anniversary
The pair commemorated their wedding anniversary with pleasant blog posts on Instagram. “people are annoying with stuff like this and now I understand why. here’s to a year together. happy anniversary and I love you so much Brianna. the only person I know who handles bulls— elegantly. just about one of the only people that makes me laugh anymore and OFTEN. proud to call you my girl,” Bryan captioned his now-deleted article.
In her very own now-deleted article, LaPaglia composed, “A year full of loving harder than I thought I was capable of and laughing louder than any year before. There isn’t a damn thing I wouldn’t do for ya. My person forever. I love you my Zachary.”
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Oct. 22: Breakup Announcement
“Brianna and me have broken up with each other and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart,” Bryan composed on his Instagram Stories, soon after followers apparently saw his account on the dating application, Raya. “She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her. 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. I am not perfect and I never will be.”
He asked for, “Please respect Brianna’s privacy and space in this and if you have it in your heart, mine too. With everything I am and to anyone I let down, I am sorry. I try my best in everything. I failed people that love me and mostly myself.”
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Oct. 22: LaPaglia Responds
The Barstool Sports individuality shared a virtually four-minute video clip to YouTube entitled “Love you guys, be back soon,” in which she’s seen weepy on her restroom flooring. “I just woke up to Zach posting on his Instagram that we broke up,” she informs the video camera. “I had no idea that post was going up. He didn’t text me, he didn’t call me. I just woke up to a bunch of texts being like, ‘Are you OK?’ I’m like, ‘Did my f—ing dad die?’ I’m completely blindsided by that.”
LaPaglia shared that she wasn’t anticipating such a public news simply a day after their break up. “I’m at the point where it’s like, how can you give someone everything and love them so unconditionally, like, through stuff that you shouldn’t because you just love them and you see the good in them? How can you give every ounce of yourself to someone and then be discarded of in a few days?” she shared. “It’s really heartbreaking and I don’t want to talk about details right now. I don’t want to talk about it yet. I will, obviously, but right now, I wanted to heal privately.”
She proceeded, “I wasn’t ready to do anything publicly and now I’m just getting a bajillion freakin’ texts and s—. I just wanted to handle this as a human first and now it’s not that. I’m just asking if you could please respect my privacy right now and when I’m ready to talk about everything that happened, I will.”
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Nov. 7: Bryan Releases New Music
Bryan went down 2 tracks, “The World’s a Giant” and “High Road,” taking to Instagram to say thanks to “all the people who love me; who have truly carried the weight with me.”
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Nov. 5, 2024: First Diss Track
In assistance of LaPaglia, her BFFs co-hosts Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards shared a diss track called “Smallest Man” — a recommendation to Taylor Swift’s tune “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” — which includes the hook, “I said trust me, caught your pants on fire / Tinder, Bumble, Raya, knew you was a liar/ You’re a douchebag, you just made a new rival / Pretty soon you going to need a revival.”
However, the tune was soon removed from all systems, which Portnoy and Richard hypothesized was as a result of a copyright problem with the outro, which inserts Bryan’s “28,” as they sing, “How lucky is Bri, to be free of ZB and his STDs.”
Portnoy likewise included that in 2020, Richards “signed a music deal” with Warner Music Group, which Bryan is likewise authorized to, so the firm “owns [Richard’s] a–.”
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Nov. 7, 2024: LaPaglia’s Bombshell Claims
In a now-viral episode of the BFFs Podcast LaPaglia made a collection of cases, consisting of charging Bryan of “emotional abuse” throughout their partnership and asserting she was supplied $12 million and a New York home to authorize a non-disclosure contract (NDA) regarding their partnership, which she stated she rejected. “The last year of my life has been like the hardest year of my life dealing with the abuse from this dude,” LaPaglia stated. “I’m still scared right now because I’m scared of him. My brain’s rewired, and I’m scared to make him mad.”
“There was always another excuse as to why he was treating me so poorly and why I’m crying myself to sleep every night, why he’s screaming at me,” she stated. “And then you wake up, it’s the apology, it’s the ‘I’m going to be better, I need you in my life.’”
Among her cases, LaPaglia explained a supposed occurrence on her birthday celebration, where Bryan apparently chewed out her her pals after she had actually gone to sleep. “I look outside and I have my aunt trying to control Zach — there’s a recording of all of this that can never be out — basically Zach stood up at the fire and he just starts screaming at my friends.”
“He stood up at the fire and just starts screaming at my friends, ‘You’re not going to be anything, you’re a f—ing loser.’ Just the most horrible s—,” she stated. “It was just crazy, completely out of nowhere … When Zach gets in that zone, there’s no containing it.”
In an additional circumstances, LaPaglia declared Bryan had actually shattered her phone, stating to her co-hosts, “Look at my phone, it’s smashed from him, he’s always smashed my phone,” including that he would certainly “whip it at a wall.”
Watch the complete episode here. Following the episode’s launch, Billboard connected to Zach Bryan’s reps for remark however did not obtain a feedback.
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Nov. 10, 2024: Second Diss Track
Portnoy shared an extra diss track, without Richards and without copyrighted songs. The track, called “Country Diddy,” vocal singing, “Country Diddy, Country Diddy / Steal another story write another Country Ditty / All these NDAs you sound like a country Diddy.”
“Butter cup really thought that he could shut me up / Someone tell your cheap lawyers I don’t give a f—,” he sings somewhere else in the tune.
Listen to it here.