Lexie Brown says she and her family have been receiving threats after she was falsely accused of being the reason why Klay and Meg broke up.
She added that she had to hire security because she’s concerned about her safety 😳
(Via @JackThompsonFOX )
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Lexie Bown says she's facing life threats amid Klay Megan breakup
When Megan Thee Stallion publicly accused Dallas Mavericks guard Klay Thompson of cheating late in April, the internet moved fast. Within hours, a WNBA player who had nothing to do with any of it was getting threats on her life.
In an interview with Fox News Digital’s Jackson Thompson, Seattle Storm guard Lexie Brown spoke out about what the past several days have actually looked like for her, and it is a lot worse than most people realized.
Brown first posted on her Instagram Stories on April 26 to flatly deny any involvement. Social media had fingered her as the reason the relationship fell apart, and the accusations were spreading fast. She had a new WNBA season starting, and she figured someone who actually knew the truth would speak up and end it.
That never happened, and the threats kept coming.
“Me and Klay, we do know each other because we both play professional basketball. I would have considered him a friend. I do not know Megan the Stallion at all.”
Lexie Brown says she and her family have been receiving threats after she was falsely accused of being the reason why Klay and Meg broke up.
She added that she had to hire security because she’s concerned about her safety 😳
(Via @JackThompsonFOX )
Brown says she kept waiting for either Thompson or Megan Thee Stallion to step in and clear her name. She had a preseason game to get through. She was certain that someone with actual knowledge of what happened would eventually say something. Nobody did.
“You know, today, like we still, I’m still the only person that has denied this entire situation of my involvement and claim that this is 100% false. And the fact that I’m still the only one that is defending my name, I just, I have no idea how to process that. And that’s the last thing that I’m like struggling to process is that there’s this massive outcry for protecting black women. And nobody has mentioned Lexi Brown’s name in any of those conversations.”
Brown is not asking for sympathy. She is asking why a conversation about protecting Black women left her completely out of it, while she was the one receiving death threats.
Brown was not vague about how serious things got. Threats against her life and her health. Her family getting pulled into it through comments and direct messages. It reached a point where simply going somewhere required security with her.
“I was getting threats on my life. I was getting threats on my health. My family started getting comments and threats from people. I’ve had to hire security to travel with me places. So it got to a point where I just was scared for my myself.”
Her father, former NBA player Dee Brown, called the experience “debilitating” as a parent watching it happen to his daughter, adding that seeing false attacks repeated across media outlets without any proof was “beyond horrifying.”
Brown’s frustration is simple. She had no involvement, she says the people involved know it, and she kept waiting for one of them to say so publicly.
“I wouldn’t have minded if either one of them came out and said it because at the end of the day, they’re the ones that are in the relationship. They’re the ones that are dealing with this and they’re the ones who are communicating with each other. So one of them, if not both of them know that it was not me, it could come from one of their teams. It could come from somewhere. The truth is over there somewhere.”
As of April 30, neither Thompson nor Megan Thee Stallion has addressed Brown by name. The Seattle Storm open their WNBA season in early May, and Brown has made clear that basketball is where her head is going, whether the internet catches up or not.
Jayesh Pagar Jayesh Pagar is a writer at Heavy Sports, covering the New York Knicks and other NBA teams. He brings four years of experience across digital sports media, including NBA, WNBA, college basketball, and college football. He covered as the Knicks beat writer for ONSI and has written for PFSN, Sporting News, and ClutchPoints. More about Jayesh Pagar
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