“He Should Be In Prison”: Shane Gillis’ Ex Girlfriend Says Zach Bryan Is A Crazy, Scary Drunk Who Threatened To Smash Her Phone

A new perspective from the seemingly incredibly toxic Zach Bryan and Brianna Chickenfry relationship. Of course, Zach Bryan went through a very public breakup with Barstool Sports personality Brianna Chickenfry, when the two of them split in the fall of 2024 and it made tons of headlines when Brianna aired it all out on her BFFs podcast with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards.

Grace Brassel, who is Shane Gillis’ ex-girlfriend, experienced some of it firsthand, as there was some overlap when she was dating Shane (they split in 2025) and Bri was still dating Zach, and she did not have positive things to say about him on the For the Girls with Becca Moore podcast, and she stated simply when the topic came up:

“Zach Bryan… he should be in prison. I was around it… listen, I watched [Brianna] got through it in public.”

Grace called Bryan “crazy” multiple times, and she says she wondered why Shane wanted to be such good friends with him:

“I know Shane’s friends with Zach, hey Zach, I know you’re watching this too… Shane just thinks it’s funny because he’s such a crazy drunk. I’m like, ‘Dude, he’s crazy.’ He’s like, ‘I know, but it’s so funny because he’s so drunk and weird.’

That’s not funny, he’s an abuser. He’s literally an abuser. I remember when he did a show… also, they do shows together, so we might have to cut this out because they’re like, bestie besties…”

She also recalled Zach being “scary” and “dark” the first time she met him, and she felt bad for Bri because she could tell she wasn’t in a great place and was putting up with a lot:

“Bri, I remember meeting him, was so scary. Like, he is a very scary, dark, dark sided kind of stuff going on there. And poor Bri, because I always knew her as being so funny and so outgoing and so cute, whatever, and she was, you could tell, almost like a ghost out other body, so skinny.

Just trying her best. And I don’t know, it’s not f****** fair, it pisses me off too. I remember when I met him, so many people who were around him could not believe… just from spending three days around him, it was very jarring.”

Of course, there’s two sides to every story, but the women I’ve heard recall stories from this relationship never paint him a good light, at all, and Grace says she even cried over it because she felt so bad for Bri.

She also recalled a story when Zach was not so nice to her, after he was allegedly upset that Shane beat him at a video game when they were hanging out at their apartment in Philly:

“It was so upsetting, I feel like I cried about it. It was so bad… it was just so upsetting. I remember, oh my gosh, there’s so many things he did… I remember we walked outside of our apartment in Philly, and he was getting really upset because Shane beat him at a video game, like okay?

He freaked the f*** out because Shane beat him at a video game. And then we walk outside, I could tell he was like a toddler, very upset, it was just so weird. And then I tapped him on the shoulder, and I was like ‘That’s the Four Seasons building in Philly, it’s the tallest building here.’ And he was like, ‘Don’t f****** touch me.’ Like, he’s crazy.”

Grace said Bri just laughed uncomfortably, and she could tell it’s something she deals with a lot:

“Bri just laughed and she knew she deals with it all the time. It’s just sad. She didn’t deserve that.”

She also recalled another personal story after one of the shows Shane and Zach did together, which had to do with Zach throwing out the possibility of smashing her phone:

“Because he’s an alcoholic. He’s very aggressive. I asked to take a picture of him and Shane because they did a show together. So I was like, ‘Oh, let’s take a picture of you guys.’ And he was like, ‘What if smash your f****** girlfriends phone?’ He said to Shane, and Shane was like, ‘What if you didn’t do that? What are you talking about?'”

Towards the end of the conversation, Becca asked the obvious as to why Shane is still friends with someone who is like that when he is so different, and Grace said she asked that many times, and she boiled it down to the fact that her ex “just thinks it’s funny when people are drunk and bad”:

“I don’t know… I’ve asked that question so many times. So many times. Because Shane’s not like that, he just thinks it’s funny when people are drunk and bad, I think.”

Grace was very complimentary of Shane and had nothing but good things to say about him as a boyfriend, and she definitely back up a lot of what Bri has alleged based on firsthand experience, and that’s kind of all we’ve had to go off of since Zach has yet to contradict any of it or defend himself, and if you want to hear more from her, the full podcast is available below.

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