Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia and Zach Bryan's Breakup Drama: A Complete Timeline (2025)

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Zach Bryan Defends Himself After Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia Breakup

Strained words come on out of a grown man's mouth when his mind's broke, but when a woman's heart breaks...

The words can get pretty pointed.

And the public portion of Zach Bryan's breakup with Brianna LaPaglia had already begun on a sour note, when she followed his Oct. 22 Instagram Story split statement with her own post noting that she was "feeling really blindsided" and needed to "hop off social media" while she healed.

Brianna hopped over to YouTube to share her feelings before taking a brief break from her socials. But the floor remained mostly her for months, with Zach perhaps sub-posting on Instagram but not expressly responding to anything his ex's allies had to say until his takes started pouring forth Jan. 9.

Addressing "couch warriors attacking and belittling my friends," the country artist posted to his Instagram Story, "Everyone wonders why I quit touring and don't want to be attached to music anymore. Meanwhile you're calling my friends ugly and harassing them?"

For the record, Zach is still very attached to music and will be headlining the 2025 Stagecoach Music Festival on April 25. But the influencer known as Brianna Chickenfry to her 2.2 million TikTok followers doeshave a wide reach.

"Everyone on the Internet is FBI agents," she toldPeople a month later, "so they figured everything out and I was like, 'I need to get ahead of it, I need to say what's right, what's real and what's true,' so I did it on my podcast."

First item of business: Tell her listeners that both she and Zach were in respective relationships when they met at the 2023 ACM Awards in May, but they were both single by the time he slid into her DMs in late June.

“It’s fun, it's casual," Brianna said on the revelatory podcast, explaining that she "just wanted to address it because the whole Internet is freaking the f--k out and people are doing s-t."

The pair chugged along, making their red carpet debut as a couple when Zach brought Brianna to the 2024 Grammys in February. The 28-year-old won for the first time in four nominations, Best Country Duo/Group Performance with Kacey Musgraves for "I Remember Everything."

In May, Brianna shared that they'd been in "a traumatizing side-by-side car crash" while on the road during Zach's The Quittin' Time Tour, and that the singer needed stitches to close up "a huge gash."

Soon after, he shared a sweet message for his girlfriend on Instagram Story, writing, "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." He called her "the most loving and supportive woman on the planet."