Angel Reese shouts out her podcast in post revealing emotional pain and feeling 'villainized'

Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese is having a pugnacious week. Her caput coach, Teresa Witherspoon, who helped pb her to her Rookie of the Year candidacy, was reportedly fired Thursday, and Reese said she was "heartbroken" successful a station connected X. 

Reese besides addressed different large contented that has been bothering her successful different X station Thursday.

"For the past 2 years, the media has benefited from my symptom and maine being villainized to make a narrative. They allowed this. This was beneficial to them. I sometimes stock my experiences of things that person happened to maine but I’ve besides allowed this to hap to maine for mode excessively agelong and present different players successful this league are dealing with and experiencing the aforesaid things," Reese wrote. 

"This isn’t good astatine all. Anything beyond disapproval astir playing the crippled we emotion is wrong. I’m atrocious to each the players that have/continue to acquisition the aforesaid things I have. This is wherefore I started my podcast. To instrumentality my dependable backmost and make the communicative of who I truly am. At the extremity of the day, I don’t privation an apology nor bash I deliberation this volition ever halt but thing has to change." 

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Chicago Sky caput manager Teresa Weatherspoon speaks with Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese during the 2nd fractional against the Dallas Wings astatine College Park Center. (Kevin Jairaj/USA Today Sports)

Reese launched her ain podcast, "Unapolagetically Angel" Sept. 5 and has released caller episodes weekly. She has utilized the podcast to stock her struggles with nationalist backlash affecting her intelligence wellness aggregate times since launching the podcast. 

In her archetypal episode, posted Sept. 5, Reese specifically called retired alleged harassment she has received from fans of rival subordinate Caitlin Clark. 

"I deliberation it's truly conscionable the fans, her fans, the Iowa fans, present the Indiana fans, that are truly just, they thrust for her, and I respect that, respectfully. But sometimes it's precise disrespectful. I deliberation there's a batch of racism erstwhile it comes to it," Reese said. 

Reese mentioned decease threats and radical going to her location arsenic examples of measures Clark's fans person taken successful effect to their rivalry.

"People person travel down to my address, followed maine home. It's travel down to that," Reese said.

Reese adjacent alleges that immoderate fans person made AI-generated images of her, depicting her without apparel on, and sending them to relatives of hers.

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Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark during the 2nd fractional June 23, 2024, astatine Wintrust Arena successful Chicago.  (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"Multiple occasions, radical person made AI images of maine naked. They person sent it to my household members. My household members are similar uncles, sending it to maine like, ‘Are you bare connected Instagram?’" Reese said. "It sucks having to spell done that and spot different players person to spell done that."

Reese has claimed she has been the unfortunate of wide online harassment, and it archetypal ramped up erstwhile she and her assemblage team, LSU, defeated Clark and Iowa successful the 2023 NCAA women's hoops title game. When LSU held a large pb successful the last minutes of that game, Reese pointed to her ringing digit successful a now-infamous photograph that angered immoderate of Clark's fans. On her podcast, Reese said that infinitesimal "changed my beingness forever."

In this year's tournament, erstwhile Clark and Iowa got their revenge against Reese successful the Final Four, Reese cried astatine the postgame property league erstwhile she revealed the allegations of harassment earlier that year. Reese besides brought contention to herself that twelvemonth during a mysterious weeks-long lack from the team. 

"I’ve been done truthful much," she told reporters during the postgame quality conference. "I’ve seen truthful much. I’ve been attacked truthful galore times, decease threats. I’ve been sexualized. I’ve been threatened. I’ve been truthful galore things, and I’ve stood beardown each azygous time."

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Angel Reese, right, of the LSU Lady Tigers reacts toward Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes during the 4th fourth of the 2023 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament title crippled astatine American Airlines Center April 2, 2023, successful Dallas, Texas.  (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Reese's teammate, Hailey Van Lith, blamed racism for the attraction of Reese astatine that aforesaid property conference. 

"A batch of the radical that are making those comments are being racist towards my teammates," Van Lith said.

As a WNBA rookie, Reese averaged 13.6 points and 13.1 rebounds per crippled and broke the grounds for astir rebounds successful a azygous season. She had season-ending country successful aboriginal September. MVP A'ja Wilson past broke Reese's rebounding grounds earlier the extremity of the regular season. The Sky finished 13-27 and failed to marque the playoffs for the archetypal clip successful 5 years. 

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