MyKayla Skinner reveals she’s received ‘disgusting’ death threats from Simone Biles feud as she breaks silence in video

MYKAYLA Skinner has addressed her beef with Team USA gymnast Simone Biles.

Biles called Skinner out in an Instagram post after Team USA won their first Olympic gold medal this year.

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Skinner faced some heat for dissing the Team USA gymnasts before the Olympics , and Biles didn’t let her forget it after they won the women’s team all-around event.

However, Skinner revealed that she has faced a barrage of death threats and cyberbullying from the feud, and has asked Biles to reel her fans in.

“Simone, I am asking you directly and publicly, to please put a stop to this,” Skinner said.

“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.

“We’ve been hurt and attacked in ways that I am certain you never intended.

“Watching people cheer on the bullying — which has led to threats of physical harm to me, my husband, and our daughter — is disgusting.

“So please at this point, I’m just asking for it to just stop for the sake of my family because enough is enough.”

Biles sneakily called out Skinner in an Instagram caption after Team USA’s win, writing “Lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions.”

The caption referenced a video that Skinner made after the Olympic roster was announced.

“Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be,” Skinner said in a now deleted Twitter video.

“Just notice like, I mean, obviously a lot of girls don’t work as hard. The girls just don’t have the work ethic.”

She has since insisted that she wasn’t calling the team lazy, and that she just poorly articulated her words.

Skinner also claimed in her video on Tuesday that only one of the Team USA athletes has reached out to her since they won gold in Paris.

“Only Simone had responded and she told me that she was proud of me,” she said.

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“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.

“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. 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.”

Biles has not made any comment about Skinner outside of her Instagram caption.

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