Zach Bryan Claps Back at Trolls in Explosive Instagram Rant After Brianna LaPaglia Split: 'I Can Take All the Hatred'

• Zach Bryan has spoken out about trolls coming for his friends on Instagram.

• In a series of Instagram Stories shared on Thursday, Jan. 9, he noted that he could "take all the hatred" but asked that his friends be left out of it

• He also claimed he does not have a girlfriend and doesn't "plan on" having one anytime soon

Zach Bryan doesn't want trolls coming for his friends.

In a series of Instagram Stories posted on Thursday, Jan. 9, the country star, 28, clapped back at trolls for coming after his friends online.

"Also all you f--in couch warriors attacking and belittling my friends on the internet because you're assuming I have a girlfriend are weird as hell and should be studied for science," he began. "Everyone wonders why I quit touring and don't want to be attached to music anymore meanwhile you're calling my friends ugly and harassing them?"

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He continued: "I'm not asking for sympathy but going for my -friends- is so low and so messed up? Apparently I've [had] four different girlfriends in like two weeks meanwhile my friends and me are just laughing and hanging out like we always have."

He then stated that he doesn't have a girlfriend and doesn't "plan on" having one, but has "normal friends" who he loves "very much."

"Go give your attention and time to the literal city burning down and stop being so sad and fickle and childish through screens. Last thing I'll ever say on this. Insane I even have to. You do not know me. You never will know me. Stop acting like you do," he wrote.

In the second post, Bryan wrote that he's "allowed to have love, laughter and good people in my life."

"No matter how bad of a person you think I am, go ahead and come for me. I can take all the hatred because I'm not a child. But do not come for my friends who do nothing but love and care for me," he wrote.

Bryan continued: "Everyone wants you to have fun and make great music but you guys are making it really hard to do that with my friends getting insulted and death threats every day."

He wrote that every day he gets "closer to never being in the public eye again."

On the following slide, he wrote that he loves his life and "worked REALLY hard for it."

Bryan asked that trolls "stop being such sad and fat fingered internet slueths" to his friends.

"We're all humans and I'm so. tired of people thinking social media is a way to have a moral high ground on people THEYVE never met? Guess people aren't humans anymore since they can hide behind screens? Weird assholes man ok I'm done," he wrote.

On the following post, he noted that he didn't "need people telling me to hang in there, sympathizing with me, or giving me advice on how to handle something or things they've never coped with."

"I lost my mother, I've been in war zones and I've battled this whole fame thing for five years. Respectfully I don't need your unsolicited advice," Bryan wrote.

In the next slide, he said he was "terrifyingly [unfazed]" by the "fake" comments people say about him but attacking his loved ones is his "final straw."

Bryan then concluded this Instagram Stories rant writing, "I've said what I need to say. My chest is still out and heads are still held high. Hopping off here for a bit seeeee ya."

Last month, Bryan's ex Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia opened up to Alix Earle about her relationship with the singer/songwriter following their breakup after more than a year of dating during an episode of her Hot Mess podcast.

At one point during the interview, which was released on Dec. 12, Earle asked LaPaglia to clarify who ultimately initiated the breakup, which Bryan publicly announced via social media on Oct. 22 after being together for a little over one year.

"The ending was really weird," the PlanBri Uncut Podcast host, 25, said, acknowledging that "everyone" is assuming that Bryan dumped her first. "He got caught on Raya, so he had to post an Instagram Story," she claimed of why the singer uploaded the breakup post at the time.

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She also noted there was a "whole situation" that happened the night before they broke up and he left for Oklahoma. "It was crazy, it was horrible. We came to the conclusion that we're going to stay together, we're going to figure it out. He goes back to Oklahoma."

LaPaglia added: "I didn't know he was cheating on me the whole time. I kind of brushed over that because the cheating was the most normal part for me."

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