There is zero hope for a reconciliation between former best friends Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia and Grace O’Malley.
“We’re not friends. We’ll never be friends again,” LaPaglia, 26, said during the Tuesday, February 17, episode of the “ImPaulsive” podcast. “But there was no beef to begin with and the internet made it so much worse than it was and now it’s so annoying.”
LaPaglia explained that she and O’Malley, 27, “butted heads” over Zach Bryan. LaPaglia dated Bryan, 29, for a year before their October 2024 split, and he didn’t get along with O’Malley — but that wasn’t the only source of their drama.
“There was a whole other s*** going on with her where our ‘Plan Bri’ [podcast] fans were really bullying me and I was like, ‘Grace, will you say something? Will you do something?’” LaPaglia claimed. “And she was like, ‘No, it’s fine. It doesn’t matter.’ It was really hurting me because I was in a really bad relationship.”
According to LaPaglia, fans thought she was a bad friend to O’Malley during her relationship with Bryan. She further claimed that O’Malley “liked” getting “lifted up” by their followers, while LaPaglia felt “weird and uncomfortable” about the whole situation.
“So, I ended the podcast before me and my ex ended anything,” she said.
The final “PlanBri Uncut” podcast episode featuring O’Malley was released in October 2024. LaPaglia has since relaunched the podcast solo. O’Malley then started her own podcast, “Disgraceful,” in February 2025.
“It just snowballed and spiraled. Then she goes on all these podcasts and says that she misses me and wants to be friends, but then behind closed doors in New York, she won’t talk to anyone that talks to me,” LaPaglia claimed of O’Malley. “She ends friendships. She’s evil. It’s very dark and weird. I’ve never said that out loud.”
Us Weekly has reached out to O’Malley for comment.
O’Malley previously addressed the drama between her and LaPaglia in December 2024.
“If you know me, you know I truly hate to be serious about anything ever, but sometimes you have to be,” she shared via social media at the time. “For months, I’ve been radio silent about the status of ‘PlanBri’ and it has killed me to leave you guys hanging. The plan was for me and Bri to put out a joint statement about the end of the podcast.”
The comedian told followers that everything was “weird and unfamiliar” with her at the time.
“[I’m] proud of what we built, nostalgic for all these years and frankly outright heartbroken that this chapter has closed,” she continued. “But, we agreed to make a joint statement, so I replied, cried, and chose not to repost or say anything until it was time.”
As O’Malley went on, she addressed the end of her and LaPaglia’s friendship.
“This last year, I bit my tongue so much that I shouldn’t even have one anymore. I was willing to wait out of respect, but things don’t always work out the way you think they will. In fact they rarely do. I most definitely did not foresee any of this EVER ending,” she wrote. “I don’t think I’ll ever fully get into every aspect of how this came to be, but it should be said that, although this was not a mutual decision, I’m realizing that, in the grand scheme of things, it might actually end up being the right one.”
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