Zach Bryan shocked everyone with his latest announcement, including his girlfriend of 15 months.
The 28-year-old country music singer took to his Instagram story to confirm that he and Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia have “broken up with each other.”
While he didn’t give an exact reason for the split, he alluded to what has been an “incredibly hard year personally,” which included struggling “through some pretty severe things.”
“I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go our different ways. I am not perfect and never will be,” he wrote. “With everything I am and to anyone I let down, I am sorry. I try my best in everything.”
The singer asked his followers to respect their privacy and space as they navigate this difficult time.
“I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart. She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her,” he continued. “I failed people that love me and mostly myself.”
Bryan and LaPaglia met at the Country Music Awards in May 2023. They started dating in July 2023, got a dog together several months later, and moved in with one another earlier this year.
Now, after 15 months of dating, the two are going their separate ways.
Mere minutes after Zach posted his breakup notice on Instagram, LaPaglia posted a story of her own.
“Hey guys I’m feeling really blindsided right now,” she wrote, revealing that she would be taking a break from social media to “heal privately.”
Nearly one hour later, she posted a four-minute YouTube video of her sitting on her bathroom floor.
“Something about a bathroom floor gives me a lot of comfort,” she said, before confirming that she “woke up” to Zach’s post and had “no idea” he was going to post it.
(Warning: The below video contain language some people may find offensive.)
According to LaPaglia, the official breakup happened yesterday. She was unaware that he was going to announce it today.
LaPaglia started getting emotional as she wondered how someone could love you with every ounce, just to be discarded so suddenly.
She described it as “heartbreaking” and added that she doesn’t want to go into details right now, but confirmed that they broke up yesterday.
Zach’s post on Tuesday confirmed what many fans were speculating as early as Monday.
The breakup rumors began when LaPaglia posted a photo of a handwritten note on her Instagram Story.
“And eventually you’ll find that life goes on, even if you don’t want it to,” she wrote at the beginning of the note. “The days will pass and the world will move while you ask it to stop.”
She ended the note with a glimmer of hope.
“The world keeps on spinning in hopes of showing you that you can as well,” she concluded. Instead of signing the note with her name, she signed it with one stick figure drawing of a person.
