The drama between Simone Biles and MyKayla Skinner continues.
For individuals who are unaware, it began with a now-deleted YouTube video the place MyKayla claimed, “Apart from Simone [Biles], I really feel just like the expertise and depth simply isn’t what it was. I imply, a variety of women don’t work as exhausting. The women simply don’t have the work ethic.”
After the U.S. girls’s gymnastics crew received gold on the 2024 Paris Olympics, Simone took to social media to mark the victory, captioning her put up: “Lack of expertise, lazy, Olympic champions,” seemingly taking a dig at MyKayla’s remark earlier this yr.
Days after Simone Biles and Group USA received the gold, MyKayla Skinner is talking out, asking Simone to cease the cyberbullying and admitting that this feud has gotten out of hand.”
MyKayla Skinner Addresses Ongoing Drama In New Video
On Tuesday, the previous Olympic gymnast posted a lengthy video addressing the continued feud.
“I sincerely hoped that this matter wouldn’t have to be revisited however sadly issues have actually gotten out of hand these days,” she started. “And it’s one factor to disagree with me concerning one thing I’ve mentioned or some extent I used to be making an attempt to make, nevertheless it’s one thing else completely when that turns into cyberbullying and even worse.”
“Watching individuals cheer on the bullying — which has led to threats of bodily hurt to me, my husband, and our daughter — is disgusting,” MyKayla continued. “So please, at this level, I’m simply asking for it to cease for the sake of my household as a result of sufficient is sufficient.”
MyKayla Skinner Acknowledges Her ‘Work Ethic’ Remark
The 27-year-old continued: “So why I’m right here is as a result of about 4 weeks in the past, I made a remark about work ethic and what appears to be taking tempo with the rising era. To be completely clear, I take 100% accountability for poorly articulating the purpose I used to be making an attempt to make and the very last thing I needed was to trigger hurt or offend our U.S. Olympic crew. I do know these girls are unimaginable — the easiest of the very best — and nearly all of them are my former teammates, who I’ve loved very a lot cheering on the previous couple of years.”
“I posted a video apology on Instagram and I adopted up with a written apology and I despatched particular person messages to every of the ladies on the crew,” she continued. “Solely Simone had responded and he or she instructed me that she was pleased with me.”
The Ladies’s USA Group Wins Gold
Final week, the Ladies’s USA Group, consisting of Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, and Hezly Rivera, received the crew all-around competitors, taking home the gold.
“You guys can think about my shock final week once I was celebrating our crew profitable gold simply to see this introduced up another time by a caption on an Instagram put up,” MyKayla mentioned of Simone’s current Instagram put up, which took a dig at the former Olympic athlete. “If Simone really believes that I known as our crew lazy and missing expertise and if that’s actually how she feels, I’m actually heartbroken over it.”
‘However not simply heartbroken as a result of it isn’t what I really feel and even how I beforehand mentioned, however as a result of Simone’s newest put up and others that adopted it fueled one other wave of hateful feedback, DMs, articles, and emails,” she continued. “Hate that features loss of life threats to me, my household, and even my agent. My household and my mates don’t should be caught within the crossfire right here. They’ve finished nothing.”
MyKayla Skinner Asks Simone Biles To ‘Cease’
MyKayla then had an ask of her former teammate, asking her “instantly and publicly to please put a cease to this.”
“Please ask your followers to cease. You will have been an unimaginable champion for psychological well being consciousness and lots of people want your assist now,” she mentioned, addressing Simone instantly. “We’ve been attacked in ways in which I’m sure you by no means meant. Your efficiency, the crew’s efficiency and the Olympics on the whole must be a time that we assist each other.”
Simone Biles Breaks Silence On ‘Work Ethic’ Remark
Shortly after MyKayla Skinner’s feedback went viral, Simone Biles launched a press release to Threads.
“Not everybody wants a mic and a platform,” she wrote.
Simone Biles has but to touch upon MyKayla Skinner’s most up-to-date video.
