Brianna LaPaglia, known online as Brianna Chickenfry, is asking her fans to let her heal her heart after her split from country star Zach Bryan.
The Barstool Sports personality shared a nearly four-minute YouTube video on Tuesday (October 22) titled “I love you guys, come back soon,” in which she is seen teary-eyed on her bathroom floor. “I just woke up when Zach posted on his Instagram that we broke up,” she tells the camera. “I had no idea the post was going up. He didn't text me, he didn't call me. I just woke up to a bunch of messages saying “Are you ok?” I'm like, “Did my dad die?” I'm completely blindsided by it.”
Earlier in the day, the “Something in the Orange” singer took to his Instagram stories to reveal that the couple, who had been dating since last summer, had split. “Brianna and I have separated and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart,” he wrote. “She loved me unconditionally for a long time and for that I will always be grateful. I've had an incredibly difficult year personally and I've struggled with some pretty tough stuff. I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go our separate ways. I'm not perfect and I never will be.”
He continued, “Respect Brianna's privacy and space in this and if you have it in your heart, in mine. For who I am and anyone I've let down, I'm sorry. I try my best. I failed the people who love me and above all myself.”
In her video, LaPaglia shared that she didn't expect such a public announcement just a day after their split. “I'm at the point where it's like, how can you give someone everything and love them so unconditionally, like, through things you shouldn't because you just love them and see the good in them? How can you give every ounce of yourself to someone and then have them dump you in a few days?'' she shared. “It's really heartbreaking and I don't want to talk about the details right now. I don't want to talk about it yet. I will, of course, but right now I wanted to heal in private.”
She continued, “I wasn't ready to do anything public and now I'm just getting a billion awesome texts and s—. I just wanted to handle this as a human being first and now that's not it. I'm just asking if you can respect my privacy at this time and when I'm ready to talk about everything that happened, I will.”
LaPaglia finished by thanking the fans for their support, adding, “I'll be fine, I'll be fine. I'm obviously very, very hurt right now. I just wanted to be hurt for a week and lie in bed.”
Speculations that the two had split circulated online after LaPaglia was posted a cryptic note on her Instagram Stories on Oct. 21 that read, “And eventually you'll find that life goes on, even if you don't want it to. Days will pass and the world will move while you ask it to stop. You'll think life is hard to go on while your feet are stuck.”
Watch her full video below.
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