The eyewatering NDA settlement offer Brianna Chickenfry turned down from Zach Bryan amid ugly break-up
Brianna Chickenfry turned down a life-changing $12m NDA settlement offer from Zach Bryan after the pair’s very public break-up last month, it has been revealed.
Country music star Bryan and the Barstool Sports host – real name Brianna LaPaglia – dated for over a year, but their relationship ended very publicly in October and details are still emerging about what happened.
Brianna has now decided to speak out on her Barstool BFFs podcast, revealing that Bryan’s team offered her $12m to sign a non-disclosure agreement that would prevent her from speaking about their relationship.
In the premiere of the podcast episode, which was watched live by over 200,000 people on Thursday night, she said: ‘The second he posted [the break-up announcement], I was like “f*** you, I don’t want a settlement, that’s not me.” It was a back-and-forth, his team would call me.
‘They gave me all these options, they started low and then they went up to $10m, then $12m. Then they wanted to give me a house, then they wanted to give me a New York apartment. They wanted to do all these things…
Brianna LaPaglia has lifted the lid on the astonishing details behind her Zach Bryan break-up
The high-profile pair broke up last month, and Bryan allegedly offered $12m to buy her silence
‘$12m to not talk about this relationship that you posted on Instagram was so beautiful and you had so much love for me. What the f*** are you hiding, dude? What are you scared of?
‘I went through literal, narcissistic emotional abuse for a year, and he made me believe everything was my fault, he isolated me from my whole entire life, wouldn’t let me be who I wanted to be. He kept repeatedly beating me down.’
LaPaglia went on to reveal that she initially decided to take the settlement offer, before changing her mind after Bryan’s legal team allegedly kept coming up with excuses to not immediately wire the cash.
Her boss, Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy, then got involved, writing a diss track alongside his co-host which slammed Bryan.
It was later taken down by Warner Music due to copyright infringements, and Portnoy revealed on the podcast that he got involved with Bryan’s lawyers to try and get them to send the cash to his employee.
Dave Portnoy sent a furious text to Bryan’s lawyers urging them to pay LaPaglia her payout
LaPaglia released a tearful video about the split last month, claiming she was ‘blindsided’
In a text, Portnoy alleges he said to Bryan’s lawyer: ‘Hey, this is Dave Portnoy. I don’t know who the f*** you think you are dealing with. I’ve been nice so far. Pay Bri ASAP or I’m coming for Zach’s throat… I’ve tried to stay out of it, but stop F***ING AROUND. Pay her or shut the f*** up. I’m losing patience.’
In the end, LaPaglia says she opted against signing away her rights to speak about the relationship, instead revealing all in an astonishing podcast episode.
In it, she detailed the country star’s alleged ’emotional abuse’ of her, which lasted throughout their relationship until their break-up last month.
‘Me not taking the money [from the non-disclosure agreement] is not just for me, it’s for anyone else that’s been emotionally abused, it’s for people right now that are being emotionally abused,’ she explained.
‘It’s for people that don’t have a support system that I was lucky enough to have going through this. This last year of my life has been the hardest year of my life, dealing with the abuse from this dude.
Bryan and LaPaglia pose on the red carpet at the Grammy’s in February of this year
In an Instagram post announcing the break-up, Bryan was full of praise for his ex-girlfriend
‘I’m still scared right now, I’m scared of him, my brain is rewired, I’m scared to make him mad. Last week I didn’t want to talk about it because I was scared.’
Chickenfry then alleged that previous girlfriends had been ‘made’ to go down that road.
‘I said, “f*** your money”, but you made the women before me believe that they had no other choice than to take money from you, sign their experiences away, sign what they went through away,’ she said.
‘You get to go skip off and sing your little f***ing songs on stage like you’re a good dude. I don’t want in two years to buy a f***ing house and think, “oh this is the money from the dude that literally f***ing broke me and destroyed me for a year.”
