The drama between Simone Biles and MyKayla Skinner continues.
For many who are unaware, it began with a now-deleted YouTube video the place MyKayla claimed, “Moreover Simone [Biles], I really feel just like the expertise and depth simply isn’t what it was. I imply, a variety of ladies don’t work as laborious. The women simply don’t have the work ethic.”
After the U.S. ladies’s gymnastics group received gold on the 2024 Paris Olympics, Simone took to social media to mark the victory, captioning her submit: “Lack of expertise, lazy, Olympic champions,” seemingly taking a dig at MyKayla’s remark earlier this 12 months.
Days after Simone Biles and Staff 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 subject wouldn’t should 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 technology. 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 wished was to trigger hurt or offend our U.S. Olympic group. I do know these ladies are unimaginable — the easiest of the perfect — and nearly all of them are my former teammates, who I’ve loved very a lot cheering on the previous few 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 group,” she continued. “Solely Simone had responded and she or he advised me that she was happy with me.”
The Ladies’s USA Staff Wins Gold
Final week, the Ladies’s USA Staff, consisting of Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, and Hezly Rivera, received the group all-around competitors, taking home the gold.
“You guys can think about my shock final week after I was celebrating our group successful gold simply to see this introduced up yet again by a caption on an Instagram submit,” MyKayla mentioned of Simone’s latest Instagram submit, which took a dig at the former Olympic athlete. “If Simone really believes that I known as our group 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 submit and others that adopted it fueled one other wave of hateful feedback, DMs, articles, and emails,” she continued. “Hate that features dying threats to me, my household, and even my agent. My household and my pals don’t need to be caught within the crossfire right here. They’ve performed nothing.”
MyKayla Skinner Asks Simone Biles To ‘Cease’
MyKayla then had an ask of her former teammate, asking her “immediately and publicly to please put a cease to this.”
“Please ask your followers to cease. You could have been an unimaginable champion for psychological well being consciousness and lots of people want your assist now,” she mentioned, addressing Simone immediately. “We’ve been attacked in ways in which I’m sure you by no means supposed. Your efficiency, the group’s efficiency and the Olympics normally ought to 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 an announcement 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.