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The Olympic gymnast Simone Biles recently shared her initial reaction to the uproar in a candid conversation on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast with Alex Cooper. “So I thought it was hilarious at first, and then they hurt my feelings,” she confessed. The internet was ablaze with “divorce” chants, a cacophony of speculation and judgment that initially struck Biles as comical. Yet, as the waves of criticism continued to crash upon her shores, the laughter faded, replaced by a sense of helplessness. “One night I broke down,” Biles revealed, “and I’m like, why are you guys talking about my husband like this? Yeah. Like you don’t know him.”

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She even admitted to shedding tears over the onslaught of negativity. “I’ve been in the limelight long enough where I can brush things off, have my little powwow about it,” she explained. “You’re not gonna know. I cried about it, but I’d be crying about some stuff, you know?” But beneath the tears lay a simmering frustration and a sense of powerlessness in the face of relentless online criticism. “But I’m also, I only cry about it because I can’t clap back. Just know that,” she asserted, a reminder that behind the public persona lies a woman grappling with the complexities of fame and public scrutiny, knowing she would eviscerate fans if she clapped back.

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