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Brianna LaPaglia Posts Cryptic Message with Taylor Swift Lyrics a Day After Ex Zach Bryan Drops Diss Track Targeting Her
Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia uses Taylor Swift lyrics to reply to Zach Bryan’s New Album
Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia is making no secret of what she thinks about her ex-boyfriend Zach Bryan’s new album With Heaven on Top.
On Jan. 9, the Barstool Media personality posted on her Instagram Stories that she had listened to Taylor Swift’s song “Actually Romantic” on Spotify and had put a spotlight on these lines: “It’s actually sweet all the time you’ve spent on me/It’s honestly wild.”
The post was made only a moment after fans were wondering if the song “Skin” by Bryan was a diss track teasing LaPaglia. In the song, Bryan is talking about severing ties with an old lover and saying he will “take a blade to my old tattoos” and “I ain’t ever touching yours again.”
Besides this, he also accuses his ex of bad-mouthing the friends: “Do you still talk s— on all of your friends?/Need to take it all to the chin this time stone-cold sober.”
Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan’s Messy Split Sets Off Fan Theories and Social Media Insults
There is a widespread assumption among the fans that the song “Skin” by Zach Bryan is directed at Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, whom he announced his breakup in October 2024. LaPaglia, a podcast host, has a tattoo of the lyrics from Bryan’s song “28” on her arm. The couple’s split was said to be quite bitter, with LaPaglia accusing Bryan of emotional abuse and stating that he offered her $12 million and a house if she kept quiet about their relationship.
After Bryan announced that he was married to Samantha Leonard, LaPaglia seemed to make a sarcastic comment about him in a TikTok video on Jan. 2. She is seen lip-syncing to Taylor Swift’s “Mastermind” with the words, “Checkmate, I couldn’t lose,” in the video while dressed in a white shirt and a tan New York Yankees baseball cap, which only serves to stir up the drama even further.
Zach Bryan Posts His First Wedding Picture with Samantha Leonard, Settling a Marriage Question
On Instagram, Zach Bryan, 29, showed his fans a glimpse of his wedding to Samantha Leonard on Dec. 31. The couple photograph features Leonard, 28, wearing a strapless white bridal dress with a feather-trimmed hem, while Bryan is tightly wrapping her with his arm.
“Tougher than the rest,” Bryan wrote as a subtitle to the post, thus, quoting a romantic song by Bruce Springsteen from Tunnel of Love.
It was through the social media, especially when Leonard appeared with a diamond ring on her left hand in Bryan’s Instagram Stories, that the couple’s engagement news started spreading.
The boyfriend and girlfriend publicly made their appearance together for the first time in July 2025, as Leonard posted pictures of their Running of the Bulls trip in Spain.
Brianna LaPaglia says that Zach Bryan’s new girlfriend is a ‘version of me’ because of the narcissism claim
A few months after Zach Bryan’s wedding to Samantha Leonard, Brianna LaPaglia addressed the fan comments that compared Leonard’s looks to hers.
LaPaglia on her Plan Bri Uncut podcast on Oct. 12 said, “Next question that I got a million times: Please, what do you think about Zach’s girlfriend looking exactly like you?”
She further explained, “I think this is narcissism 101 textbook – that’s exactly what narcissists do, they just find another version of you to date.”
LaPaglia confessed that she was ‘flattered’ yet also revealed that she changed her hair color just to get people to stop sending her pictures of Leonard. “‘People are like, ‘Are you creeped out? Are you mad? Are you annoyed? Are you flattered?’ To be honest, I am flattered, but I changed my hair so that people can’t keep sending me every single picture that he posts of her.'”
Brianna LaPaglia Names Zach Bryan as Her Emotionally Abusive Partner, Calls Out $12 Million Payout and House Offer
Roughly one month since their breakup, Brianna LaPaglia leveled the serious accusation of emotional abuse against Zach Bryan, revealing that he had tried to silence her through a $12 million payout and by giving her a house.
During a recording of the BFFs Podcast, LaPaglia expressed, “You made the girls before me believe that they couldn’t do anything else but accept money from you and therefore cover up their experiences. Meanwhile, you can go and perform your little f—ing songs on stage as if you were a good guy … Sorry, I’m not them.”
Zach Bryan has chosen to keep silence about Brianna LaPaglia’s accusations. However, he seemed to make a very indirect reference of them through his Instagram Stories by showing a flag burning of Barstool Sports, the media brand under which her podcast is produced.
Brianna LaPaglia Reflects on the Emotional Effects of Her Relationship with Zach Bryan
Brianna LaPaglia was very open about how her relationship with Zach Bryan challenged her identity when she was on a April show of Casual Chaos.
” That was the moment I realized I had started worrying about what I was saying or how people would react to me which I had never been like that before,” she said. ” I looked in the mirror and I could not see the person I was… I was so far away from who I was… I was oblivious to the fact that I was changing into someone different from who I had been.”
Brianna told: “I suppose that really is the moment when the light bulb went on…Someone can exercise so much control or power over you and you don’t even see it coming.”
