Kayla Nicole responds after old tweets resurface

A week after offensive posts from her past forced her off social media, Kayla Nicole finally broke her silence. The wellness entrepreneur issued a heartfelt apology through Instagram Stories, confronting the homophobic slurs and ethnic stereotypes she posted between 2010 and 2014 that recently resurfaced across the internet.

The 34-year-old influencer, who commands nearly 1 million Instagram followers, acknowledged the shame she felt seeing her old words circulate again. She admitted the tweets were ignorant, hurtful and completely wrong, expressing disbelief that she ever thought or spoke that way. Screenshots shared across X revealed posts where she used homophobic slurs, called Asian people rude and deployed derogatory language while referencing people from Mexico and India.

Kayla Nicole outed as a racist? A thread of all her questionable old tweets—screenshot before she deletes! https://t.co/hP7VhpN2BW pic.twitter.com/eOUWmAOo1u

— ethan (kamala’s version) (@swiftiexzquad) November 6, 2025

A public reckoning

Nicole made clear that the woman she is today would never use those words or express those kinds of views. She pointed to her own experiences witnessing how cruel and harmful online hate can be, saying she would never want to add to that world of pain in any form. The decision to delete those tweets and her entire X account came from her refusal to keep that energy alive or contribute to a cycle of hate.

The wellness entrepreneur took full responsibility for what she posted, apologizing to anyone she may have hurt. She insisted her heart, values and perspective are now completely rooted in empathy, love and respect for others. While acknowledging she cannot change the past, Nicole promised to continue showing through her actions who she has become and what she stands for today.

Building beyond the controversy

Nicole’s professional journey tells a story of reinvention. After graduating from Pepperdine University in 2013 with a broadcast journalism degree, she worked in various sports media roles before launching her own ventures. Today she runs Tribe Therepē, a wellness brand, and hosts The Pre-Game With Kayla Nicole, a podcast that has helped establish her voice in lifestyle and sports culture.

Her visibility skyrocketed in 2017 when she started dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Their on-again-off-again relationship lasted until 2022, but the aftermath proved more complicated than either anticipated. When Kelce began dating Taylor Swift in 2023, Nicole found herself under intense scrutiny from the pop star’s devoted fanbase.

The Swift connection

The timing of these resurfaced tweets appears connected to that scrutiny. Nicole drew attention for seemingly unfollowing Brittany Mahomes, wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, on Instagram shortly after Swift and Kelce went public. More recently, she made what many interpreted as a sly response to a new Swift song that appears to reference the singer’s romance with Kelce.

These moments, however small they might seem, illustrate how peripheral figures in celebrity narratives can become targets of coordinated online investigation. Swift’s passionate supporters are known for their detective work and protective stance, often unearthing controversial pasts of those they perceive as critics.

Digital footprints and growth

Nicole‘s situation highlights an uncomfortable reality about social media: nothing truly disappears. Posts from over a decade ago, created when she was in her early twenties navigating platforms that were still defining community standards, remain vulnerable to excavation whenever public interest intensifies.

The influencer’s apology follows a familiar pattern of addressing resurfaced content by acknowledging harm, expressing shame, noting personal growth and committing to better behavior. Whether this proves sufficient depends largely on public willingness to accept that people can genuinely change over time.

For Nicole, the path forward requires more than words. It demands consistent demonstration of the values she now claims guide her work and public presence. In an ecosystem where influencers build careers on authenticity and relatability, revelations of past behavior that contradicts current branding can prove especially damaging.

Moving forward

The deletion of her X account may provide temporary relief from immediate backlash, but the screenshots remain, preserved in the permanent archive of internet controversy. Nicole‘s challenge now is convincing an audience that the distance between 2010 and 2025 contains meaningful personal evolution, and that past transgressions need not define present identity.

Her career as a wellness entrepreneur and podcast host positions her as someone who promotes positive living and authentic connection. Reconciling that image with the inflammatory language of her past requires more than a single apology. It requires sustained action that proves her words about empathy, love and respect translate into genuine behavior.

Whether her departure from X and public apology will satisfy critics or merely serve as another chapter in ongoing scrutiny remains uncertain. What is clear is that Nicole has learned a harsh lesson about the permanence of digital speech and the reality that the internet forgets nothing.