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Zach Bryan has launched a brand new tune, “Excessive Highway,” amid his highly-publicized break-up with podcast host Brianna LaPaglia.
On Thursday, November 7, the 28-year-old nation launched the brand new observe alongside “The World’s a Big” paired with a prolonged Instagram caption reflecting on a protracted, difficult chapter in his life.
Reflecting on his journey house after a yr and a half away, Bryan shared the expertise of visiting his mom Annette’s grave in Oklahoma. She handed in August 2016.
“Instructed her I give up touring as a result of I obtained accepted to get my masters in Paris subsequent yr, I informed her I used to be again in Oklahoma, informed her about all my finest mates in New York and all of the nights we howled with the moon, informed her concerning the immeasurable laughter my band and me have shared these final 5 years, all of the calluses on my fingertips, each tear shed, informed her about making it on the Rolling Stone [sic] and most significantly informed her about porch swinging with my stunning sister,” he wrote.
“I wrote the refrain for this tune a month or two again and completed it once I realized I used to be blessed with all these items.”
“I figured it was about time I launched it,” he continued. “Thanks guys for listening to ‘This Worlds a Big’ final night time and thanks to all of the individuals who love me; who’ve really carried the burden with me. Appears that each one these Quiet Desires have gotten a lot too heavy however I’m house now and I’ll maintain you thru the ache. ‘Excessive Highway’ is out right this moment and I recognize all of you.”
The releases got here simply as his ex LaPaglia, 25, made allegations of emotional abuse towards the nation star on her BFFs podcast with co-hosts Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards. It was the primary time LaPaglia opened up about her relationship with the nation singer since he introduced their breakup on October 22.
Describing the final yr as “the toughest yr of my life coping with the abuse from this dude,” LaPaglia claimed she had been “scared” to talk up earlier than. She alleged Bryan would “construct you up, beat you down, apologize again and again.”
“There was at all times one other excuse as to why he was treating me so poorly and why I’m crying myself to sleep each night time,” she mentioned. “Why he’s screaming at me and you then get up, it’s the apology, it’s the ‘I’m going to be higher like I want you in my life,’ however if you happen to’ve been by way of this — I don’t count on folks to grasp emotional abuse if you happen to haven’t been by way of it. I hope you by no means should undergo it however if you happen to’ve been there you realize what I’m speaking about.”
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LaPaglia additionally alleged that girls who have been beforehand in relationships with Bryan have been made to signal non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to maintain them from publicly discussing their experiences with him. She claimed she was supplied $12m to “not speak concerning the relationship.”
Bryan’s representatives didn’t instantly reply to The Impartial’s request for remark.
“You get to go skip off and sing your little f***ing songs on stage such as you’re a great dude. You get to deal with folks round you want s***. Sorry, I’m not them,” she mentioned. “I don’t need your cash; I don’t need in two years to purchase a f***ing home and suppose, ‘Oh, that is the cash from the dude that actually f***ing destroyed me and broke me for a yr.’”
The 2 started courting formally in July 2023, with Bryan asserting their breakup on Instagram on October 22 of this yr.
On the time, LaPaglia took to her Instagram story to disclose that she was “blindsided” by his announcement, writing that she would take a social media hiatus to proceed processing the break up.