Kayla Nicole Garners Unexpected Support Over Past Controversial Tweets

Travis Kelsey’s ex-girlfriend Kayla Nicole has damaged her silence after controversial outdated tweets from her X (previously Twitter) account resurfaced.

The social media and health influencer made headlines final month when social media customers claimed the 34-year-old defamed Taylor Swift when she shared a clip of the favored 2000s Toni Braxton tune “He Wasn’t Man Sufficient.”

Since then, a slew of Kayla Nicole’s previous posts have come to mild, sparking outrage and sudden help.

In a prolonged assertion shared to her Instagram Tales, Nicole, 34, acknowledged that her tweet contained language that was “ignorant, hurtful and fully mistaken” and expressed disappointment in herself for persevering with to share such problematic posts.

“I wish to take a second to sincerely apologize for the hurtful tweets I posted a few years in the past,” she wrote. “It was extremely troublesome to see them resurface final week. Studying it now, I am ashamed to have thought or spoken that manner. They had been ignorant, dangerous and flat out mistaken.”

Nicole’s earlier tweets, shared in a social media thread, referenced racial and homophobic slurs, amongst different issues.

In a single article, she referred to as somebody a “silly fats Mexican,” and in one other she mocked an Asian particular person’s accent by calling her a “#combokiller.”

One other put up by Nicole exhibits the Pepperdine College graduate sharing a seemingly derogatory view of Asian ladies’s spiritual practices, writing, “After 5 months I am going to let her know Buddha is not actual.”

In a latest social media apology, Nicole mentioned: “I’d by no means use these phrases or specific these views right this moment. I’ve seen firsthand for years how merciless and dangerous on-line hate may be. , I do not need to add to that world of ache in any manner. I’ve since deleted these tweets and my X account fully as a result of I refuse to maintain that power alive or add to the cycle of hate.”

For these unfamiliar, Kayla Nicole, who boasts almost 1 million followers on Instagram and hosts the podcast “Pre-Sport with Kayla Nicole,” rose to fame after her on-again, off-again relationship with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star Kelce.

Nicole concluded her assertion by saying she takes “full duty” for her earlier posts and apologized for any hurt she might have prompted. “My coronary heart, values, and perspective are fully rooted in empathy, love, and respect for others. I can not change the previous, however I’ll proceed to reveal by way of my actions who I’ve turn out to be and what I stand for right this moment,” she wrote.

Nicole, who additionally appeared on Season 3 of Fox’s “Particular Forces,” has discovered sudden help on-line from some customers who agree that her posts from 2010 to 2014 shouldn’t be used towards her, with one commenting that the net period was “a wild time.”

One other person wrote, “By no means make me well-known!!!!! I used to be vicious from 2010 to 2015.”

Different customers argued that Nicole should not have apologized in any respect, contemplating the posts had been from completely different occasions in her life.

“I am not going to apologize for posting one thing immature after I was immature lol. Severely, how outdated was she in 2010?” one particular person commented, whereas one other referred to as the world “naive” for “mentioning issues from 15 years in the past.”

Earlier than her earlier tweets resurfaced in numerous social media threads, Nicole was within the headlines for a totally completely different cause. It was a Halloween costume.

Simply final month, Nicole dressed up as Grammy-winning singer Toni Braxton, recreating the look from her 2000s hit single “He Wasn’t Man Sufficient,” as seen on social media and featured on The Blast.

Nicole additionally shared knowledgeable video of herself dancing to Braxton’s tune, voicing the lyrics, “What are you pondering?/Are you aware who we had been again then?/Are you aware that I left your husband and your girlfriend?/I do not take into consideration him.”

And the tune does not cease there, the tune continues, “However you married him/Are you aware I made him go away?/Are you aware that he begged to be with me?/He wasn’t man sufficient for me.”

Nicole did not reveal her identify, however many thought her Braxton-inspired Halloween costume was an apparent assault on Swift, a month earlier than followers speculated that she wrote a line concerning the podcaster in her tune “Opalite” from her album The Lifetime of a Showgirl.

However Nicole wasted no time in shutting down the rumors, explaining to listeners that she’s “not within the enterprise of degrading ladies.”

Nicole mentioned she remembered her love of R&B tracks as a toddler and determined to pay tribute to Braxton just a few days earlier than Halloween. Nicole additionally shared one other private anecdote from her youth that cemented her love for the tune.

She additional added, “I keep in mind driving dwelling from personal college at the back of a paddy wagon, carrying a very small uniform.” [my best friend] Taylor and her mom had been performing the tune. [Singing] On the prime of her lungs. That was the second I believed, Wow, white individuals hearken to black music too. ”