Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia is breaking down her thoughts on Alex Cooper and Alix Earle’s drama.
“I haven’t heard many positive things about her in the Barstool office and this is pre all of this drama. People have horrid things to say about her and how she treated them here. That was kind of pre my era so I didn’t really know. I was just like, ‘Oh, OK,’” LaPaglia, 26, said in the Sunday, April 19, episode of her “Plan Bri” podcast.
“But here’s the thing, I don’t think her being a mean girl necessarily is not new information,” she claimed. “I don’t think she cares if you think she’s a mean girl. I think she is a mean girl and she embraces being a mean girl.”
LaPaglia’s episode comes days after Earle, 25, began reposting shady videos about Cooper, 31, on TikTok. In a clip posted on April 13, Cooper called out Earle over her “passive aggressive reposts,” as well as the social media content she was liking and commenting on, urging Earle to share her “beef.” Earle replied, “OK on it!!” As of Monday, April 10, she has yet to share her side of the story publicly.
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Cooper also publicly addressed LaPaglia for “adding onto the fake narrative and dog pile” amid her feud with Earle. LaPaglia fired back by claiming that Cooper is a “very, very mean person” based on what she heard from Earle.
“Her video toward Alix calling her out while she was at Coachella was literal mean girl final boss video,” LaPaglia said on Sunday. “It was so condescending. It was so mean. Like, for what? Why did you do that?”
LaPaglia referenced the internet rumor that Cooper’s video released on April 13 was pre-recorded, with the “Call Her Daddy” host waiting to release the clip until Earle was at Coachella. She further speculated that Cooper might have been “interviewing one of the artists and maybe didn’t want it to affect what was going to come out of the interview or affect her doing the interview.”
“It’s just like, something that calculated to me, I’m like, ‘Why?’” LaPaglia claimed. “Because I know what Alix Earle is sitting on. So, she must not know. She must not know and it’s eating her alive and she just wants her to say it because she’s like, ‘It can’t be that bad.’”
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LaPaglia pondered why Cooper called her out personally, despite “everyone in the world” talking about her drama with Earle.
“She’s like, ‘Oh, Brianna Chickenfry, you calling me a mean girl?’ Yeah, so is the whole f***ing world. It’s not me versus you, babe. It’s me and the whole world versus you,” LaPaglia said. “That was so weird. That was giving manic energy, posting old DMs from 2022, 2023, when I didn’t know any of these things about you.”
LaPaglia went on to recall how Cooper allegedly tried to “poach” her ex-BFF amid their falling out. (LaPaglia’s ex-BFF Grace O’Malley launched her “Disgraceful” podcast under Cooper’s Unwell Network in 2024.)
“I know, at that time, how vulnerable my ex-best friend was. How easily swayed she is in times of emotion. How she was easily swayed by the internet. That’s why our whole friendship fell apart. How you took advantage of that, how you profited off of it, how you tried to make it blow up into this beautiful, amazing, women love women thing. When it was the exact opposite and then say, ‘Girls love girls,’” LaPaglia alleged. “And then you’re like, ‘What’s the beef that Brianna has with me?’ Are you f***ing braindead? Were we all not there?”
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“People that are like her, that are just one track mind, that think money, that think business, that have no empathy, that have no actual feelings, they will never comprehend that,” LaPaglia claimed. “I genuinely think she was being honest when she was like, ‘What did I ever do to her? We were nice, we DMed two years ago and I never asked her to be on Call Her Daddy.’ As if I gave a f***. I have my own podcast and I wanted to do it on ‘BFFs.’”
LaPaglia made headlines in 2024 when she split from country musician Zach Bryan and claimed he was emotionally abusive to her during an episode of her “BFFs” podcast at the time. (Bryan, 30, has not publicly addressed her allegations.)
“I would have came after, surely, but my podcast, my story, dropped on my podcast. That was the whole f***ing point. If you wanted to have me on after, surely I would have done it because everyone goes on ‘Call Her Daddy’ when something horrible happens to them,” LaPaglia said. “And then you take advantage of them and then just blow it to the moon. And I know a lot of people that went on ‘Call Her Daddy’ that don’t have positive experiences with her.”
LaPaglia implied she knows what Cooper “did” to Earle, and said it “pisses [her] off” that the influencer isn’t coming forward.
“It’s getting to a point, where if she doesn’t, I’ll break my f***ing loyalty of holding all these secrets for two years and then I’ll just be the one getting sued, and then I’ll go bankrupt,” she quipped. “At this point, I’m the source of everything. And it’s because I’m the only one brave enough to open their f***ing mouth.”
LaPaglia promised her listeners if they found her at a bar, she would spill all the details, adding, “Ask me, I’ll tell you. Swear to God. Swear to God. Anything you want to know at this point, I’m an open book.”
