Why did Simone Biles choose silence regarding Jonathan Owens’ situation?

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.”

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.