Zach Bryan and his girlfriend, Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, have split, and Chickenfry shared her emotional reaction to the singer announcing their breakup on social media.
The country music star, 28, confirmed the rumored breakup Tuesday with a message on his Instagram Stories.
“Addressing something: Brianna and me have broken up with each other and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart,” Bryan wrote.
“She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her,” he added.
Zach Bryan
“I’ve 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 never will be,” Bryan went on before asking fans to respect Chickenfry’s “privacy and space … and if you have it in your heart, mine too.”
“With everything I am and to anyone I let down, I am sorry,” he concluded. “I try my best in everything. I failed people that love me and mostly myself.”
Zach Bryan’s statement about the breakup
Chickenfry, 25, said in her own statement that she was “blindsided” by the breakup.
“Hey guys I’m feeling really blindsided right now. Gonna hop off social media for a while and attempt to heal privately,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories. “When I’m ready I’ll be back and ready to talk.”
“I love you guys so much thank you for all of your kind words. Remember you are so loved and everything’s always gonna be okay,” the social media star added.
Brianna Chickenfry’s statement about the breakup.
A short time later, Chickenfry posted a video on her YouTube account, Plan Bri Uncut, titled “Love you guys, I’ll be back soon.”
Speaking directly to the camera while seated on her bathroom floor (a place she chose because it gives her “comfort”), the Barstool Sports contributor spoke for three minutes about her split from Bryan.
“I just woke up to Zach posting on his Instagram that we broke up and 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, like, ‘Are you OK?’” Chickenfry said.
Again stating that she was “completely blindsided,” she added, “Do you see the swelling on my face? I’ve been crying for like five days straight.”
“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 want them … like you see the good in them.”
“This is so embarrassing. I don’t give a f–k,” she continued. “How can you give every ounce of yourself to someone and then be discarded of in a few days. It’s really, really heartbreaking.”
Though she said she didn’t want to discuss “details right now,” she said that, eventually, she will, “obviously.”
For the time being, she explained that she “wanted to heal privately” but “had no idea that [Bryan] was going to post” about their breakup.
The breakup officially occurred on Monday, according to Chickenfry. She also said that prior to Bryan’s announcement, she “wasn’t ready to [share] anything publicly.”
Bryan’s former flame brought the video to a close by asking people to “respect” her privacy. “When I’m ready to talk about everything that happened, I will, but right now I’m just completely blindsided,” she explained.
Chickenfry assured her viewers that she is “going to be fine” and gave thanks for the kind messages she has received.
Zach Bryan and Brianna Chickenfry at the Grammy Awards in February
“I’m just really, really hurt right now,” she went on. “I wanted to just be hurt for a week and lay in bed.”
“I just didn’t want it to be public,” she said.
Rumors of Bryan and Chickenfry’s breakup began Monday after fans posted screenshots online of what they claimed to be Bryan’s Raya account.
Chickenfry also shared several cryptic messages on her IG Stories before the breakup was confirmed.
One of her posts read, “Eventually you’ll find that life goes on / Even if you don’t want it to.”
The former couple met at the Academy of Country Music Awards in May of last year when Chickenfry asked Bryan for a photo together. Bryan had just split from girlfriend Deb Peifer. He was previously married to Rose Madden from 2020 to 2021.
Chickenfry confirmed her and Bryan’s relationship on her “Plan Bri Uncut” podcast last July. They made their red carpet debut at the Grammy Awards this February.
Brianna Chickenfry and Zach Bryan
In May, the pair almost died in a car crash while they were on the road for Bryan’s “Quittin’ Time” tour.
“There was a lot of blood, and we thought we were saying goodbye to each other,” Chickenfry said in a TikTok she made about the crash.
Zach Bryan and Brianna Chickenfry
After the incident, Bryan took to social media to share a heartfelt message to Chickenfry.
He wrote, “This lady holds the weight up of everyone around her day in and day out. Through these month long tour runs, to my degenerate ass making an album. You’re my muse Brianna and I don’t understand how the hell you hold it together when people around you can’t. Thank you forever and always no matter what.”
