Country star Zach Bryan’s ex accuses him of emotional abuse, claims she was offered $12M to sign NDA

Brianna LaPaglia, who goes by the sanction Brianna Chickenfry, is accusing her ex, state prima Zach Bryan, of affectional maltreatment during their relationship. She besides claims helium offered her $12 cardinal to motion a nondisclosure agreement.

During a caller occurrence of the "BFFs" podcast, which she co-hosts with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards, the net property said, "This occurrence of maine not taking the money, similar it’s not conscionable for me. It’s for anyone other who's been emotionally abused, it’s for radical close present that are being emotionally abused, it’s for radical that don’t person a enactment strategy that I was fortunate capable to person going done this."

She continued, "And the past twelvemonth of my beingness has been the hardest twelvemonth of my life, dealing with the maltreatment from this dude. I’m inactive frightened close present due to the fact that I’m frightened of him still, my brain’s rewired. I’m frightened to marque him mad."

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Brianna LaPaglia, who goes by the sanction Brianna Chickenfry, is accusing her ex, state prima Zach Bryan, of affectional maltreatment during their more-than-a-year narration and of offering her $12 cardinal to motion a nondisclosure agreement.  ( John Shearer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

LaPaglia’s accusations travel 2 weeks aft Bryan announced the mates had broken up, apologizing to anyone helium had "let down."

"She has loved maine unconditionally for a precise agelong clip and for that I’ll ever convey her," helium wrote successful the October societal media post. "I person had an incredibly hard year personally and struggled done immoderate beauteous terrible things. I thought it would beryllium beneficial for some of america to spell our antithetic ways."

He added, "I americium not cleanable and ne'er volition be." 

Hours aft his post, LaPaglia made a YouTube video of herself sitting connected her bath floor, saying that she had been "blindsided" by Bryan’s breakup post, claiming that helium hadn’t told her that helium planned to station it and that she had hoped to woody with their divided privately. 

Brianna LaPaglia antecedently said she had been "blindsided" by Zach Bryan's nationalist connection connected their breakup. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

She said she couldn't recognize however a idiosyncratic could emotion idiosyncratic "so unconditionally done worldly that you shouldn't due to the fact that you conscionable emotion them, similar you spot the bully successful them" and inactive "be discarded of successful a fewer days."

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LaPaglia said she didn't privation to spell into item about the breakup yet, due to the fact that she needed to "heal privately" first. 

On Thursday she continued connected the podcast, "Last week I didn’t privation to speech astir it due to the fact that I was scared, truthful I was similar ‘Yeah, we tin conscionable speech astir this worldly that’s public,’ and I inactive said ‘F--- your money,’ but you made the women earlier maine judge that they had nary different prime than to instrumentality wealth from you, motion their experiences away, motion what they went done away. You get to spell skip disconnected and sing your small f---ing songs connected signifier similar you’re a bully dude." 

She continued, "I don’t privation successful 2 years to bargain a f---ing location and think, ‘Oh, this is the wealth from the dude that virtually f---ing destroyed maine and broke maine for a year?’ F--- that, f--- you, I don’t privation your money."

During her podcast, Brianna LaPaglia said that Zach Bryan "destroyed maine and broke maine for a year." (Zach Bryan/Instagram)

"This isn’t similar a play happening for me," she added. "This isn’t maine not signing the NDA oregon not taking the wealth due to the fact that I privation to get connected present and exposure who helium is and his secrets and each that s---. I didn’t instrumentality the wealth due to the fact that I’m not signing distant my experiences and what I went done to support idiosyncratic that wounded me, and I’m a batch stronger than a anemic man. F--- you, f--- your money."

"I’m a batch stronger than a anemic man. F--- you, f--- your money."

At the opening of the podcast, they shared a video that LaPaglia filmed of herself a week agone alleging that aft the breakup, she had been approached by his squad and "offered a batch of money, a large lump sum of wealth and a fewer options. Basically, I would person gotten the wealth implicit the people of 3 years, I would person had to motion each of my experiences, everything that I americium distant to this person. They would person been monitoring everything that I do, and astatine the extremity of the 3 years, I'll person similar that large lump sum of money."

She said she thought astir taking the wealth "for a second," but realized she's OK connected her ain and doesn't privation "blood money."

LaPaglia made it wide she ne'er accepted immoderate money, saying "that's beneath me."  

Zach Bryan and Brianna LaPaglia photographed kissing astatine the Grammy Awards successful February. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

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But she said she blames herself successful galore ways for the extremity of their relationship. "Half the crushed this each happened is due to the fact that I fto it . . . I kept showing up erstwhile I shouldn't have, and I kept loving and giving erstwhile I shouldn't person and that came down to, like, that's a maine occupation and I deliberation a batch of radical bash that. If you're not getting the emotion that you're giving, you person to locomotion away." 

She called it a "blessing," due to the fact that she said she didn't cognize however agelong she would person stayed with him otherwise. 

She said that aft sacrificing her clip to spell connected circuit with the "Something successful the Orange" singer, helium dropped her disconnected successful New York truthful she could bash her ain circuit for a fewer days, but she said their enactment past felt "abrupt" and "weird."

She recalled him telling her that aft the "hardest twelvemonth of his life," helium felt that helium needed to "sit still" and walk immoderate clip astatine home" alternatively of going with her, and that made consciousness to her. 

Zach Bryan and Bri LaPaglia, aka 'Brianna Chickenfry,' astatine the 66th Annual Grammy Awards connected February 4, 2024.  (Getty Images)

Still, they talked each time portion she was connected tour, and she was "happy," but past things shifted erstwhile helium stopped answering her calls and began traveling for different things distant from her. 

While she was touring, she claimed helium had texted her and said, "'Actually, I can't bash this anymore.' Out of nowhere."

She added, "I genuinely deliberation that helium needs idiosyncratic that tin beryllium that. That tin conscionable beryllium ‘the girl,’ and nary 1 should ever conscionable beryllium ‘the girl,’ and I was truthful adjacent to conscionable being ‘the girl.’" 

"It was conscionable truthful retired of nowhere," she said of the breakup. 

When she returned location from being connected tour, she said helium told her it was "time to determination out" without immoderate discussion, contempt the information that she said that they had talked astir matrimony and gathering a beingness unneurotic and adjacent kids. 

"I spell distant for 2 weeks to springiness myself a small spot of something, and I travel home, and it's ‘Pack your bags’? I was gutted," she said. 

Brianna LaPaglia astatine the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards from Ford Center astatine The Star connected May 11, 2023, successful Frisco, Texas. (Gilbert Flores/Penske Media via Getty Images)

After she went home, she started to question herself, and helium perpetually crept into her thoughts successful a atrocious way. 

"I don't deliberation that's however immoderate narration should ever be," she said. "Like, of course, you deliberation astir your important other, but you shouldn't deliberation astir like, ‘Is this going to upset them oregon is this gonna origin a fight?’ erstwhile it's things that shouldn't upset people."

After that, she said helium begged her to instrumentality him back, and she did, but helium ne'er apologized. 

"And past we went to Boston for my unrecorded amusement and a batch of horrible s--- happened that nighttime and I don't privation to get into immoderate details," she said, adding that they had talked astir moving things out, but past helium gave her the "cold shoulder," and helium said helium was going to spell backmost to Oklahoma. 

LaPaglia said she was "blindsided" by Bryan making their breakup public. (Brianna LaPaglia/Instagram)

"Like it was ever truthful blistery and cold. I didn't cognize what mentation I was going to get ever," she explained. 

She said that the past clip she saw him helium refused to springiness her a hug and accused her of being "dramatic" erstwhile she said it felt similar the past clip they would beryllium together. 

"I ne'er had the breakup conversation, I ne'er had similar a telephone telephone astir what's going on. I conscionable had argumentative words," she said, saying that each she wanted was a "kinder goodbye."  

They yet talked astir it implicit text, and she said helium told her that going nationalist with the breakup would beryllium connected her terms, but hours aboriginal she received messages from friends that helium had created an relationship connected dating app Raya.

"I don't deliberation you request Raya, you request therapy," she said successful the video. 

LaPaglia went disconnected societal media and asked Bryan for a week to heal, but past she was bombarded by his societal media station announcing their breakup, which she said helium posted due to the fact that helium was "caught" connected Raya. 

Brianna LaPaglia said she "can't hold to heal" from her narration with Zach Bryan. (Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)

"Everyone successful my beingness recovered retired astir the breakup from his Instagram," she said. 

While she ne'er got a due goodbye, she said she got "his squad reaching retired to maine astir settlements and I got him reaching retired to maine lone erstwhile Dave [Portnoy] talked astir him online."

"I conscionable can't hold to determination guardant and heal from this," she said, adding, "I don't privation your money, bro." 

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During the podcast, Portnoy said the connection amounted to $12 cardinal successful "life-changing money." 

All 3 co-hosts admitted they went backmost and distant implicit whether she should instrumentality the money, and Portnoy said they yet agreed, "F--- the money, we're going to war" against Bryan connected the podcast, which included a diss way they made astir him.

Brianna LaPaglia attends Vanity Fair Campaign Hollywood and TikTok Celebrate Vanities: A Night For Young Hollywood astatine Mes Amis connected March 8, 2023, successful Los Angeles, California. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images)

She said that on with the $12 million, which incrementally went up, she was besides offered a location oregon a New York flat by his team. 

"I went done literal narcissistic affectional maltreatment for a year, and helium made maine judge everything was my fault," she claimed. "He isolated maine from my full full life, helium wouldn't fto maine beryllium who I wanted to be, helium made maine hatred everything that I loved astir myself, helium broke maine down and past made maine consciousness similar helium was each I had left, and helium conscionable kept repeatedly beating maine down." 

She said that erstwhile they archetypal started dating helium told her, "Women are ever trying to ruin my beingness online" and that radical conscionable wanted wealth from him. "He manipulated the f--- retired of me," she claimed, saying that helium had been fantastic to her successful the archetypal fewer months of their relationship, and each of a abrupt determination was a switch.  "I don't cognize wherefore I stayed."

She alleged it got to the constituent wherever Bryan controlled what she wore and what she posted connected societal media. 

"This isn't a breakup, similar I went done a traumatic twelvemonth of affectional abuse. . . . This isn't maine being similar I dated a douchebag who cheated connected maine with a miss astatine the bar, similar this is thing truthful overmuch deeper than that," she continued.

Zach Bryan performs during the Quittin Time circuit astatine Nissan Stadium connected June 29, 2024, successful Nashville, Tennessee. ( Keith Griner/Getty Images)

LaPaglia said she thought that offering her the wealth was his "final shot" astatine inactive trying to power her and consciousness similar helium was a bully feline for leaving her with something. 

She besides discussed respective times that his choler allegedly got retired of control, including a day enactment astatine which she claimed helium lashed retired astatine her friends for nary reason. Her aunt attempted to calm him down, and LaPaglia claimed helium smashed immoderate glass. 

She besides claimed helium broke her phone, telling her co-hosts, "Look astatine my phone, it’s smashed from him, he’s ever smashed my phone."

Bryan hasn't responded to LaPaglia's accusations, though helium did stock posts connected his Instagram promoting his caller song, "High Road," with lyrics similar "Everyone is tellin' maine that I request assistance oregon therapy / But each I request is to beryllium near alone."

Zach Bryan performs successful enactment of his "The Quittin Time Tour 2024" astatine Ford Field connected June 20, 2024, successful Detroit, Michigan. (Scott Legato/Getty Images)

He besides posted a nexus to a station by writer Jack Kerouac's property – a photograph of the precocious writer with the quote: "I didn’t cognize what to say. I felt similar crying, Goddammit everybody successful the satellite wants an mentation for your acts and for your precise being."

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to Bryan’s reps for comment.