Brianna LaPaglia Posts About Engagement Ring After Zach Bryan Breakup

Breakup speculation was successful afloat bloom aft the Internet noticed less couple's posts than accustomed from Zach Bryan and Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia, and commenters did not support their suspicions to themselves.

"It was a atrocious week," Brianna acknowledged connected the Oct. 2 occurrence of Barstool Sports' BFFs podcast erstwhile cohosts Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards quizzed her astir the divided rumors. "It's crazy, we don't station each different for a week, it took the Internet by storm. But he's going done a batch of idiosyncratic worldly and I went location and conscionable separated—we're unneurotic present and everything's OK."

Meanwhile, Zach was already connected Dave's naughty database for making a ace astir Taylor Swift (that he apologized for), but the Barstool Sports laminitis and self-proclaimed "King of the Swifties" allowed him one pass due to the fact that helium was Brianna's boyfriend.

Before it was publically known that Brianna and Zach were nary longer together, she advised against dating celebrated people during a sit-down connected Haliey Welch's Talk Tuah podcast.

"I said connected the BFFs [podcast] that I would ne'er day anyone celebrated ever," Brianna noted connected the occurrence released Oct. 22, the aforesaid time the breakup quality broke. "Literally ne'er wanted to and past it kinda conscionable happened."

She didn't cognize wherefore she changed her tune, she admitted. But, Brianna continued, "I privation it... don't day celebrated people."

On that note, she explained, "I deliberation it’s amended for the intelligence to not day idiosyncratic famous. It's a lot."

In an Oct. 21 Instagram post, Brianna had shared a photograph of a handwritten enactment detailing immoderate beauteous aggravated feelings.

"And yet you'll find that beingness goes adjacent if you dont privation it to: The days volition walk and the satellite volition determination portion you inquire it to stop," the connection read. "You'll judge beingness is cruel for continuing connected portion your feet are stuck. You'll find radical and moments to blasted for your factual feet. Then determination volition travel a greeting erstwhile you aftermath and recognize things spell on, beingness isn't cruel your feet are. The satellite keeps connected spinning successful hopes of showing you that you tin arsenic well."

All was revealed the adjacent day.

Less than an hr aft Zach's Instagram Story went unrecorded Oct. 22, Brianna followed up with her own: "Hey guys I’m feeling truly blindsided close now," she wrote. "Gonna hop disconnected societal media for a portion and effort to heal privately, erstwhile I'm acceptable I’ll beryllium backmost and acceptable to talk."

She added, "I emotion you guys truthful overmuch convey you for each of your benignant words. Remember you are truthful loved and everything's ever gonna beryllium OK."

Before the backstage healing commenced, Brianna said successful an Oct. 22 YouTube video—recorded from the self-described "comfort" of her bath floor—that she had been "crying for similar 5 days straight" erstwhile she woke up to Zach's station and its aftermath.

"I had nary thought that station was going up," she said. "He didn't substance me, helium didn't telephone me. I conscionable woke up to a clump of texts being like, 'Are you okay?' and I'm like, 'Did my f--king dada die?'"

Reiterating that she was blindsided, she continued, "How tin you springiness each ounce of yourself to idiosyncratic and past beryllium discarded of successful a fewer days? It's really, truly heartbreaking."

She didn't privation to speech astir it yet, Brianna added, but she would. "We broke up yesterday," she added, "so I wasn't acceptable to bash thing publicly...I wanted to grip this arsenic a quality first."

All she wanted astatine the moment, she said, was to "just beryllium wounded for a week and laic successful bed."

In the aftermath of her speaking retired astir the breakup, Dave shared a YouTube nexus to Taylor's "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" and dedicated it to Brianna.

That, successful turn, was screenshotted by a friend who posted connected Brianna's Instagram Story connected her behalf Oct 24, penning atop the pointed pic, "(Bris disconnected socials but she gave maine the greenish airy for this) she'll beryllium backmost Wednesday for bffs. she is with friends and family. I've been screenshotting immoderate of your benignant words and sending them to her. She loves you."

Addressing speculation that determination was a rift betwixt her and PlanBri Uncut podcast cohost Grace O'Malley because she didn't publically privation her pal a blessed birthday, Brianna returned to Instagram Story Oct. 30 to acceptable a fewer things straight.

"Not allowing the net to instrumentality implicit my idiosyncratic relationships anymore,” Brianna wrote. "Need to acceptable immoderate boundaries and support immoderate things to myself."

In a abstracted post, she wrote, "I'm not funny successful sharing my idiosyncratic relationships online anymore due to the fact that the net wants truthful severely to ruin them all. Grace has been similar a sister since I was 15 years old. I wished her a blessed day privately."

BFFs hosts Dave and Josh recovered a originative outlet for their frustrations, releasing a diss way they called "Smallest Man."

"I said spot me, caught your pants connected fire," began the opus posted to YouTube Nov. 6. "Tinder, Bumble, Raya, knew you was a liar / You're a douchebag, you conscionable made a caller rival / Pretty soon you going to request a revival."

The way was initially blocked by Warner Music Group, citing copyright grounds, earlier resurfacing that aforesaid day.

In a station connected X, Dave noted the impermanent setback: "Zach Bryan and @warnermusic must person the worst situation absorption execs successful the world. Running astir similar chickens with their heads chopped disconnected trying to erase #smallestman from the internet. Did cipher archer them I tally an net company? They conscionable guaranteed this happening hits #1." 

He and Josh had teased the way connected Instagram Nov. 5, and erstwhile a commenter accused them of not being brave capable to tag Zach, Brianna waded successful and replied, "We r each blocked."

After seemingly not acknowledging immoderate of the speech coming from Brianna's corner, Zach picked Nov. 7 to release his opus "High Road" and supply a presumption update.

He had visited his mother's gravesite a fewer nights backmost for the archetypal clip successful much than a year, helium wrote connected Instagram, noting helium was successful Tulsa.

"Told her I discontinue touring due to the fact that I got accepted to get my masters successful Paris adjacent year," helium continued, "I told her I was backmost successful Oklahoma, told her astir each my champion friends successful New York and each the nights we howled with the moon, told her astir the immeasurable laughter my set and maine person shared these past 5 years, each the calluses connected my digit tips, each teardrop shed, told her astir making it connected The Rolling Stone and astir importantly told her astir structure swinging with my beauteous sister."

He added, "I wrote the chorus for this opus a period oregon 2 backmost and finished it erstwhile I realized I was blessed with each these things. I figured it was astir clip I released it. Thank you guys for listening to ‘This Worlds a Giant' past nighttime and convey you to each the radical who emotion me; who person genuinely carried the value with me. Seems that each these Quiet Dreams person gotten overmuch excessively dense but I’m location present and I’ll clasp you done the pain."

Brianna has alleged that her narration with Zach was emotionally abusive.

"The past twelvemonth of my beingness has been the hardest twelvemonth of my life," she told Dave and Josh connected the Nov. 7 occurrence of BFFs. "Dealing with the maltreatment from this dude—I'm inactive frightened close now."

The 25-year-old said her encephalon had been "rewired" from being acrophobic to marque her ex mad.

"He made maine judge everything was my fault," Brianna continued. "He isolated maine from my full full life. He wouldn't fto maine beryllium who I wanted to be. He made maine hatred everything that I loved astir myself."

Zach had "love bombed her," she said, and she ignored aggregate reddish flags.

After 4 comparatively creaseless months, she said, helium broke her down truthful that she felt "like helium was each I had left, and helium conscionable kept repeatedly beating maine down and beating maine down."

Brianna besides alleged during the occurrence that Zach's squad offered her $12 cardinal to motion an NDA and enactment soundless astir their relationship.

While she didn't privation wealth that reminded her of her ex, Brianna said she didn't diminution conscionable to beryllium escaped to aerial their secrets either.

Rather, Brianna said, "I'm not signing distant my experiences and what I went done to support idiosyncratic that wounded me."

E! News reached retired to Zach for remark but has not heard back.

After they recorded, Dave wrote connected X, "I cognize radical person tons of beardown opinions connected Bri but aft tonight's occurrence determination can't beryllium anybody who doesn't respect the s--t retired of her."

"I knew I was making the close decision," Brianna wrote connected her Instagram Story Nov. 7 aft the occurrence dropped. "And I judge not going each retired and not telling everything was the close determination too. You get the picture."

She continued, "Your messages person made maine sob. I can't judge however galore women and men person experienced the aforesaid abuse. You person me, I'll beryllium a dependable for you each always. If I tin basal up to idiosyncratic successful powerfulness you tin basal up to the bum from your hometown. This is each 2 weeks retired truthful I'm inactive processing everything I went through. I'll continued to process and heal with you all! I emotion you I emotion you I emotion you."

A mates of hours later, she shared a video changeable by an assemblage subordinate astatine a halt connected Barstool's Chicks successful the Office: Little Fall Getaway Tour during a unrecorded show of "Smallest Man," highlighting the lyric, "How fortunate is Bri to beryllium escaped of ZB."