Kayla Nicole is concerned in a social media mess.
The influencer and ex-girlfriend of Travis Kelce deactivated her X account Thursday evening after a thread of screenshots allegedly showed Nicole utilizing racist and homophobic language in posts on her account within the early 2010s.
The slew of alleged posts resurfaced after Nicole's Halloween costume induced a stir amongst Kelce and Taylor Swift followers.
Many Swifties believed that Nicole's recreation of Toni Braxton's look from the “He Wasn't Man Sufficient” music video was in reference to the 14-time Grammy winner, with some believing Swift took a jab at Nicole on her son music “Opalite” on her latest album, “Lifetime of a Showgirl.”
Within the music, Swift sings: “You couldn't perceive it / Why you felt alone / You had been in it for actual / She was in her cellphone / And also you had been only a pose.”
So when Nicole, who beforehand dated the Chiefs tight finish on-and-off for 5 years earlier than splitting up, wore the Braxton-inspired costume, social media customers claimed she was clapping again at Swift.
Nevertheless, on the 34-year-old's “PreGame” podcast, Nicole emphasised that her costume was in reference to a unique Taylor and from a “very particular” childhood reminiscence.
“I had a white finest buddy. Her identify was Taylor,” Nicole recalled. “And he or she [had] the one home I might go over to as a child as a result of my mother didn't play them kind of video games. I particularly keep in mind driving dwelling from non-public faculty in my uniform at the back of a paddy wagon with Taylor, and her mother was taking part in this music,” she added.
Within the second, Nicole remembered considering, “Wow, white folks hearken to black folks music as properly.”
