Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia made her return to the ‘BFFs’ podcast after her public breakup with Zach Bryan — and dedicated the episode to “anyone else who has been emotionally abused” in a relationship.

“The last year of my life has been the hardest year of my life dealing with this guy’s abuse,” LaPaglia, 25, said. during the episode released Thursday, November 7. “I’m still scared now because I’m still scared of him. My brain is rewired. I’m afraid of driving him crazy.”

Bryan, 28, announced via social media on October 22 that he and LaPaglia had broken up after more than a year of dating. It claimed to be “blind” through the announcement after agreeing to keep the split private for a week.

Thursday’s podcast episode began with an intro that LaPaglia recorded last week but initially decided not to release. Cohosts (“BFFs”) Josh Richards and Dave Portnoy finally join LaPaglia for the rest of the episode.)

“I kept showing up when I shouldn’t have, and I kept loving and giving when I shouldn’t have. That’s my problem,” she said. “If you don’t get the love that you give, you have to go, and I really think that’s such a blessing because who the hell knows how long I would have stayed and how long I would have dealt with it. s—.”

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LaPaglia has thrown several accusations at her ex, which Bryan has yet to address. (He shared a cryptically quoted via social media post shortly after the podcast is released.)

“I really think he just needs someone who can just be the girl,” LaPaglia claimed. “No one should be just the girl, and I was so close to being just the girl.”

Keep scrolling for LaPaglia’s biggest revelations about her relationship with Bryan:

Alleged offer from Zach’s team

LaPaglia claimed he was offered a “large lump sum” of money by Bryan’s team to be paid for three years if she signed away all of her “experiences” with the departed singer.

“I don’t want blood money and I don’t think you can pay people you hurt to protect you,” she said, noting that Bryan’s alleged offer “speaks volumes.”

“I have not accepted any money, I will not accept any money,” LaPaglia added. “I think that’s beneath me, I think he’s tired.”

Later in the episode, Portnoy, 47, claimed LaPaglia was offered $12 million. She also admitted to going back and forth for two weeks before finally refusing the alleged payment.

Why didn’t he take the money?

“They are not the people before. I was somebody before you and you made the women before me think they had no choice but to take money from you, to sign their experiences, to sign what they went through,” LaPaglia explained. “You can jump around and sing your little songs on stage like you’re a good guy. You can treat the people around you like… I’m sorry it’s not them, I don’t want your money.”

LaPaglia made it clear that he was not sharing these claims publicly to start “drama” on the podcast.

“I’m not giving up on my experiences and what I went through to protect someone who hurt me and I’m much stronger than a weak man and f— your money, f— you,” she said.

LaPaglia also claimed that she experienced “literal narcissistic emotional abuse” throughout their entire relationship. “He made me think it was all my fault,” she claimed. “I isolated myself from my whole life.”

A timeline of their two breakups

In September, LaPaglia went on tour with the co-host of the “PlanBri Uncut” podcast. Grace O’Malley. Bryan did not accompany them. While LaPaglia was in Seattle, the singer allegedly broke up with her via text. After her tour, Bryan told LaPaglia to move all her things out of his house. However, a few days later, he reportedly called her and said the breakup was a mistake, but never apologized.

“Nonsense, I said, ‘OK, I’ll be back.’ I’m ashamed of that,” LaPaglia said. “This is partly my fault for allowing myself to be treated like this and I don’t know why.”

Bryan accompanied LaPaglia and O’Malley to their live show in Boston last month. LaPaglia claimed that “a lot of horrible things happened” that night, but said he would never repeat them. He forgave Bryan, but that moment was the beginning of the end. He eventually left to go to his home state of Oklahoma, and LaPaglia knew it would be the last time he would ever see him.

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“I’m very aware that people break up and things happen,” she said. “People break up and things happen in a normal way. This one was just thrown away, go away, goodbye.”

The pair agreed that it was up to LaPaglia to decide whether to go public with their split. The day Bryan and LaPaglia broke up for good (October 21) was reportedly the same day he reactivated his Raya dating app profile.

“Man, you’re the guy right now, you’re so famous. Everyone will immediately post that,” LaPaglia said. “You have no remorse or any consideration for my feelings when you know we parted that day, do you do a Raya? Obviously, this will be the first thing online.”

She added: “I don’t think you need Raya, I think you need therapy.”

The next day, she saw his social media post announcing their breakup. “Everyone in my life found out about my breakup from his Instagram story,” she claimed.

When Zach reached out

LaPaglia said he only heard about Bryan after Portnoy talked about them split into “The Unnamed Show” podcast late last month.

“He hates my guts,” Portnoy said. “We ended up more in the middle of this than we anticipated.”

LaPaglia claimed Bryan had some choice words for Barstool Sports and her podcast co-hosts. (At one point, LaPaglia claimed that Bryan, too she hated her best friend O’Malley.)

Missed red flags

Before their relationship, which started in the summer of 2023LaPaglia and Bryan went on a three-day trip together. Looking back, she claimed it was love bombing – especially when Bryan got a tattoo dedicated to her on his arm shortly afterwards. (They weren’t even dating yet.)

“I’m just a girl. I loved this guy, he was fun. I believed him,” she said, noting that Bryan claimed that “women are always trying to ruin my life online.”

LaPaglia claimed that Bryan “manipulated the f…” out of her. “I fell in love with this person who doesn’t exist,” she added. LaPaglia mentioned that she would cry herself to sleep and Bryan would yell at her before apologizing the next day — something she experienced “over and over and over.”

When LaPaglia was renewing his contract with Barstool Sports, Bryan allegedly offered to pay him “double” of what he was going to earn so he could quit.

At one point, LaPaglia also recalled a week-long battle between her and Bryan after singing “Last Night” by Morgan Wallen in their house. “I wasn’t really allowed to listen Noah KahanI listened to him too much”, she also claimed.

What happened at the Golden Globes

while Portnoy previously claimed Bryan was upset with LaPaglia for calling out an actor hot during a red carpet interview at the awards in January, his issue was actually with the dress he wore. (LaPaglia posed in a sheer white dress that hugged her figure and featured a dramatic leg slit.)

“He said he didn’t want to date someone who presented like that,” she recalled. “It ruined my night. Everything good, everything I did for myself, he made sure to ruin everything for me.”

She doesn’t share everything

“There are many things I do not say. There’s a lot of things that I’m not saying and I’m close because, one, it’s so hard that I don’t want them there and I don’t want to relive them,” LaPaglia said. “I really just want this to rest.”

What’s up with the Bronco

LaPaglia stated that she wanted to buy her Ford Bronco, but Bryan wouldn’t let her. Once they broke up, she demanded to pay for his car.

Initially, he said he could have the car, but when LaPaglia turned down the offer from Bryan’s team, he started “going crazy.” He supposedly takes her car. (We weekly contacted Bryan about LaPaglia’s podcast claims.)

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The status of her friendships

LaPaglia said things are “fine” between her and O’Malley, despite rampant online speculation that the friends were out. “Grace and I will always be fine,” she said.

However, O’Malley was not the only one of LaPaglia’s friends with whom Bryan had tension. She allegedly rented a huge house to celebrate LaPaglia’s birthday in June with family and friends. A few hours after falling asleep, LaPaglia awoke to people screaming. She claimed there was a recording of Bryan yelling “awful” at her friends.

“I have the craziest videos. Maybe that’s why the $12 million is involved because I have a lot of stuff that I’ll never put out there because it’s embarrassing to me and I don’t want my future kids to see it,” LaPaglia claimed. “That’s probably where the $12 million came from.”