Kylan Darnell took TikTok by storm during the 2022 Bama Rush craze, when she shared her experiences as a PNM at the University of Alabama â and she hasnât slowed down since. Her viral OOTDs and iconic phrase, âHope you have a great day and not just a good dayâ have earned the now-21-year-old junior 1.1 million followers on TikTok, with viewers tuning in to watch the ups and downs of her college journey as it unfolds in real time â and yes, sometimes this includes some drama.Â
This time, though, the drama doesnât involve her sister Izzy falling into a pool wearing her prom dress â itâs a bit more heavy than that. Apparently, Kylan had a boyfriend for a few months⊠and it also appears he was cheating on her â or, at least, not being honest with either of the women he was apparently linked to.
This all came to surface at the end of November in a series of TikToks Kylan posted about her (unnamed) partner, whoâs now her ex. Her Campus reached out to Kylan for more info on what happened, but didn’t hear back in time for publication. So, hereâs how it apparently went down, based on social media posts:
Kylan Posted About Visting Her BF
On Nov. 23, Kylan took to TikTok to share that she was at the airport in Dallas waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up, which may have come as a shock to some followers, considering Kylan had yet to post a video with her BF yet. The following day, she cleared up some of that confusion, posting a âget ready with meâ video from her boyfriendâs bathroom and sharing why she hadnât hard-launched him yet. âWe started talking June of this summer, we started dating September,â Kylan said. âWeâre still in our honeymoon phase ⊠So I will definitely not be posting him anytime soon.â
Grace Posted About her BF cheating on her with a “famous tiktoker”
Things took a turn on Nov. 24 when a TikToker named Grace Hale (@iceicegracieee) posted a storytime video about her ex-boyfriend cheating on her with a famous TikToker. In the now-deleted video, Grace talked about dating a guy from February until the end of July. She said after the split, they began talking again from August to September, when he revealed to Grace that he was âgoing to have a famous new girlfriend.â Grace also revealed that she and this unnamed man continued talking in October on and off until Nov. 22. Her Campus also reached out to Grace for more information on the situation, but didn’t hear back in time for publication.
Although Grace didnât name names in her original video, aside from giving the guy in her story the alias âCoyote,â a lot of viewers immediately assumed it was about Kylan and her man, since Grace opened the video by saying, âToday is a terrible day, not just a bad day,â a remix of Kylanâs famous tagline.Â
Kylan seemingly responded to Grace’s video â and revealed she broke up with her BF
The plot then thickened when Kylan revealed on TikTok that her trip was cut short in a video of her back at the airport. The video was captioned, âGirl i didnât know you existed.â She then followed that video up with a series of posts from the airport and airplane.
Kylan never mentioned Grace by name in any of her Nov. 24 videos, but she did call out âthe girlâ for publicly posting about the situation. She said she was caught off guard when someone sent her a video of âthe girlâ while she was at dinner with her boyfriend â who, BTW, Kylan seemingly is not with anymore, since she started referring to him as her ex-boyfriend in the airport videos. She also claimed that âthe girlâ never reached out to her. âShe didnât even private message me, she just said âwham,ââ Kylan wrote in one post.
Grace confirmed she was talking about Kylan, & shared receipts
Grace then followed up with another video on Nov. 25, in which she apologized for using the âToday is a terrible day, not just a bad day,â tagline and for her delivery in her initial video. She also claimed that she indeed messaged Kylan before posting her video, with screenshots as proof. This makes it pretty clear that Grace is, in fact, âthe girlâ Kylan was talking about in her videos â however, it throws into question Kylan’s claims that “the girl” never reached out to her before posting publicly.
Kylan explained why she’s mad at “the girl” in addition to her ex
As fans caught up on all the back and forth, some commented to ask why Kylan seemed to be focusing her ire (at least publicly) on the other woman, rather than the man in her relationship. Kylan addressed this (and more) in her two-part storytime about the drama on Nov. 25. “I am so mad at him that he’s, like, done, gone, different dimension â don’t even want to waste breath on him,” she said in her video. She also later added: “I’m not validating his actions, I’m just holding her accountable to hers.”
The majority of this two-part storytime, however, was focused on calling out Grace. “I don’t think she did what she did for the right intention, and her story’s a little messed up” Kylan said. She went on to explain that she actually knew her BF since high school, and that while she and he never officially dated until recently, they were always in touch with each other. Kylan also claimed Grace and her ex never actually dated, which is contradictory to what Grace has said. (For what it’s worth, Kylan shared screenshots of messages with “somebody very close to [Grace]” to back this claim up, but there is currently no verifiable evidence to prove this claim one way or another.)
Kylan then said there are still more details that she has yet to share, but the drama is “podcast-worthy” and she doesn’t want to “give it all up now,” indicating she’ll probably do a tell-all podcast on her side of the story soon.
Grace, for her part, hasn’t posted publicly about the drama since her Nov. 25 TikTok, which she said would be her “one last video” on the subject. However, if Kylan is continuing to post about the situation, there’s a chance Grace will come back to share her side as well â fans will just have to stay tuned to find out.