MyKayla Skinner Addresses Feud With Simone Biles: 'Thing Have Gotten Out Of Hand'

The drama between Simone Biles and MyKayla Skinner continues.

For those who are unaware, it all started with a now-deleted YouTube video where MyKayla claimed, “Besides Simone [Biles], I feel like the talent and depth just isn’t what it used to be. I mean, a lot of girls don’t work as hard. The girls just don’t have the work ethic.”

After the U.S. women’s gymnastics team won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Simone took to social media to mark the victory, captioning her post: “Lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions," seemingly taking a dig at MyKayla's comment earlier this year.

Days after Simone Biles and Team USA won the gold, MyKayla Skinner is speaking out, asking Simone to stop the cyberbullying and admitting that this feud has gotten out of hand."

On Tuesday, the former Olympic gymnast posted a lengthy video addressing the ongoing feud.

“I sincerely hoped that this topic wouldn’t need to be revisited but unfortunately things have really gotten out of hand lately," she began. "And it’s one thing to disagree with me regarding something I have said or a point I was trying to make, but it’s something else entirely when that turns into cyberbullying or even worse."

“Watching people cheer on the bullying — which has led to threats of physical harm to me, my husband, and our daughter — is disgusting," MyKayla continued. "So please, at this point, I’m just asking for it to stop for the sake of my family because enough is enough.”

The 27-year-old continued: “So why I’m here is because about four weeks ago, I made a comment about work ethic and what seems to be taking pace with the rising generation. To be totally clear, I take 100 percent responsibility for poorly articulating the point I was trying to make and the last thing I wanted was to cause harm or offend our U.S. Olympic team. I know these women are incredible — the very best of the best — and almost all of them are my former teammates, who I have enjoyed very much cheering on the last few years.”

“I posted a video apology on Instagram and I followed up with a written apology and I sent individual messages to each of the women on the team,” she continued. “Only Simone had responded and she told me that she was proud of me."

Last week, the Women's USA Team, consisting of Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles,and Hezly Rivera, won the team all-around competition, taking home the gold.

"You guys can imagine my surprise last week when I was celebrating our team winning gold just to see this brought up all over again by a caption on an Instagram post," MyKayla said of Simone's recent Instagram post, which took a dig at the former Olympic athlete. "If Simone truly believes that I called our team lazy and lacking talent and if that’s really how she feels, I am really heartbroken over it."

'But not just heartbroken because it isn’t what I feel or even how I previously said, but because Simone’s latest post and others that followed it fueled another wave of hateful comments, DMs, articles, and emails," she continued. "Hate that includes death threats to me, my family, and even my agent. My family and my friends don’t deserve to be caught in the crossfire here. They’ve done nothing."

MyKayla then had an ask of her former teammate, asking her "directly and publicly to please put a stop to this."

"Please ask your followers to stop. You have been an incredible champion for mental health awareness and a lot of people need your help now," she said, addressing Simone directly. "We’ve been attacked in ways that I’m certain you never intended. Your performance, the team’s performance and the Olympics in general should be a time that we support one another.”

Shortly after MyKayla Skinner's comments went viral, Simone Biles released a statement to Threads.

“Not everyone needs a mic and a platform," she wrote.

Simone Biles has yet to comment on MyKayla Skinner's most recent video.