Brianna ‘Chickenfry’ LaPaglia revealed why she won’t be removing a tattoo featuring the lyrics to her ex Zach Bryan’s song, following their bitter split.
The Barstool Sports podcaster, 25, has the phrase ‘how lucky are we’ tattooed on her arm — a line that also features in the country superstar’s hit song, 28.
On Saturday, Chickenfry — who turned down a $12m NDA settlement offer from Bryan — responded to a number of fans who questioned whether she will remove the tattoo, or if they have to remove their own as well.
‘I see a lot of people being like, “Well now I have to get my ‘how lucky are we’ tattoo removed.” That was my thing,’ LaPaglia — who had the tattoo before the line was included in Bryan’s song — shared in a TikTok video.
‘That’s my tattoo. Now, we’re matching, okay? Don’t get it removed. It’s okay, this is mine, “how lucky are we”, that was me,’ she added.
Brianna ‘Chickenfry’ LaPaglia, 25, revealed why she won’t be removing a tattoo featuring the lyrics to her ex Zach Bryan’s, 28, song, following their bitter split
The Barstool Sports podcaste has the phrase ‘how lucky are we’ tattooed on her arm — a line that also features in the country superstar’s hit song, 28
Chickenfry — who first talked about her tattoo in August 2023 — previously said she got the ink ‘with a bunch of friends in Vegas and we were very drunk.’
In Bryan’s song — which is part of his album The Great American Bar Scene released on July 4, 2024 — he included the phrase as he sang, ‘How lucky are we? It’s been a hell of a week but you’re all grown now, There’s smoke seepin’ out of your bloody teeth. but you’re home somehow.’
Fans previously thought that the song might have been about Chickenfry, as it features lyrics like: ‘Took twenty-eight years of blood pumping through me / To get to this evening with you.’
However, Bryan said he wrote it after his dog Boston had to have emergency surgery, according to American Songwriter.
‘Boston, our puppy was going into surgery,’ he wrote in the now-deleted post.
‘And I told Brianna, “How lucky are we?” to have had a puppy so beautiful, and she came out of it just fine; I wrote it the next day because I felt like the luckiest man on the planet.’
Chickenfry also recently said that Bryan got a tattoo in her honor before they were even officially together.
‘After that weekend [where he road-tripped to Oklahoma] we spent three days together, I think two or three days later, he got me tattooed on his arm,’ LaPaglia shared on a recent episode of her ‘BFFs’ podcast.
‘I see a lot of people being like, “Well now I have to get my ‘how lucky are we’ tattoo removed.” That was my thing. That’s my tattoo. Now, we’re matching,’ LaPaglia shared in a TikTok video on Saturday
Chickenfry — who first talked about her tattoo in August 2023 — previously said she got the ink ‘with a bunch of friends in Vegas and we were very drunk’
Fans previously thought that the song might have been about Chickenfry, though Bryan said he wrote it after his dog Boston had to have emergency surgery; seen performing in February
Earlier this week, she has slammed her ex-boyfriend as ’emotionally abusive’ and revealed she refused to sign an NDA in the wake of their ugly break-up.
Chickenfry turned down a life-changing $12m NDA settlement offer from Bryan after the pair’s very public split last month.
The Pink Skies hitmaker and Chickenfry dated for over a year, but their relationship ended very publicly in October and details are still emerging about what happened.
Chickenfry quickly took to social media to claim she was blindsided by Bryan’s social media announcement of the split, and her Barstool colleagues have since rallied around her.
A day after Barstool owner Dave Portnoy released a diss track about the singer, defending his podcast co-host, Brianna herself returned to the BFF show to drop some more bombshells about the ugly end to their relationship.
She revealed 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…’
Earlier this week has slammed her ex as ’emotionally abusive’ and revealed she turned down a $12m NDA settlement offer from Bryan after the pair’s ugly split last month; seen in February
‘$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?’ she said
‘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,’ she claimed
‘$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.’
Chickenfry 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, 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.
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, Chickenfry 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.
The Pink Skies hitmaker and Chickenfry dated for over a year, but their relationship ended very publicly in October and details are still emerging about what happened
Chickenfry released a tearful video about the split last month, claiming she was ‘blindsided’
In Bryan’s breakup post, he praised Brianna for loving him ‘unconditionally’
‘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.”
