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Last week, Kayla Nicole was trending for her Halloween costume — a full-on Toni Braxton moment that had half the internet convinced she was throwing shade at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. This week, she’s trending again, but for something a little messier. On Wednesday, November 5, an X user kicked off a thread tagging @iamkaylanicole and dropped screenshots of old tweets allegedly from Nicole’s account — posts dating back to 2010 that used slurs and homophobic language. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 It spread fast, racking up tens of thousands of views within hours. “Jesus Christ. She has all the slurs in the bag,” one person wrote in the comments section. “Wait, clock it omg😭😭,” said another. “Wouldn’t expect less,” a third chimed in. Soon, more alleged posts began circulating as fans piled on. Within a day, Nicole’s X account was gone. USA Today reported she’d apparently deactivated the account “after a lot of problematic old posts resurfaced,” describing the tweets as “racist, sexist, homophobic and ableist.” So, how did we get here? It started on Halloween. Nicole dressed up as Braxton from the “He Wasn’t Man Enough” music video, and many fans instantly connected it to Kelce and Swift. The post came a few weeks after the 35-year-old Grammy winner released her new album The Life of a Showgirl, which includes a song called “Opalite.” In it, Swift sings: “You couldn’t understand it / Why you felt alone / You were in it for real / She was in her phone / And you were just a pose.” Some fans assumed the lyric was a jab at Nicole, who often posted videos of then-boyfriend Kelce during their relationship. So when Nicole showed up in a video about a woman telling another woman to back off her man — courtesy of Braxton’s lyrics — the internet decided she was firing back.
