Kayla Nicole has addressed her recently resurfaced social media posts.
“I want to take a moment to sincerely apologize for the hurtful tweets I posted so many years ago,” Nicole, 34, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Thursday, November 13. “Seeing them resurface last week has been incredibly difficult, and reading them now, I’m ashamed that I ever thought or spoke that way. They were ignorant, hurtful and completely wrong.”
Eagle-eyed fans noticed earlier this month that Nicole quietly deleted her X account after individuals resurfaced her old posts from 2010 that allegedly used racist and homophobic language.
“The woman I am today would never use those words or express those kinds of views,” she added on Thursday. “Over the years, I’ve seen firsthand how cruel and harmful online hate can be. I would never want to add to that world of pain in any form.”
Nicole continued, “I have since deleted those tweets and my X account entirely because I refuse to keep that energy alive or continue a cycle of hate.”
The Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test alum further stressed that she takes “full responsibility” for her past content.
“I’m truly sorry to anyone I may have hurt,” Nicole said. “My heart, values and perspective are completely rooted in empathy, love and respect for others. I can’t change the past, but I will continue showing through my actions who I’ve become and what I stand for today.”
Nicole recently raised eyebrows when she paid homage to Toni Braxton’s “He Wasn’t Man Enough” music video on Halloween.
“Did you know about us back then? / Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?” Nicole lip-synched in social media footage at the time. “I’m not thinking ’bout him / But you married him / Do you know I made him leave? / Do you know he begged to stay with me? / He wasn’t man enough for me.”
Considering the 2000 hit was about Braxton’s ex-boyfriend and his new partner, fans presumed that Nicole was shading ex Travis Kelce and his fiancée, Taylor Swift. Kelce, 36, dated Nicole on and off for five years before they split for good in 2022. The next year, the NFL star moved on with Swift, 35.
Nicole later denied that her Halloween look was a dig at Kelce and Swift, who got engaged in August.
“I had a white best friend. Her name was Taylor,” Nicole said on her “Pre-Game” podcast. “And she [had] the only house I could go over to as a kid because my mom didn’t play them type of games. I specifically remember driving home from private school in my uniform in the back of a paddy wagon with Taylor, and her mom was playing this song.”
According to Nicole, she subsequently had an “a-ha moment” that “white people listen to ‘Black people music’” too.
“I feel like Halloween is an opportunity for you to let your creative flag fly,” she said on a follow-up podcast episode earlier in November. “People will try to project their own narratives, but for me, personally, I am not in the business of tearing other women down. I’m in the business of celebrating them, and for me, this moment was about celebrating an icon in my culture.”
Read the full article here
