A person on Twitter called out Olympic medalist Simone Biles online for her alleged "rude" behavior, and her husband, NFL star Jonathan Owens, quickly stepped in to shut those allegations down.
Earlier this week, a woman responded to a viral tweet that asked people to share their past bad experiences with celebrities. Her interaction allegedly involved the decorated gymnast while she was shopping at a cosmetics store in the summer of 2021.
In tweets that have since been protected by the author, the woman claimed, "Simone Biles came into a makeup store I worked at with her now husband. She was so fucking rude LMAO."
"My coworker's daughter did gymnastics, so she politely asked for a picture with her during checkout, and Simone said, 'Absolutely not! Your daughter is four, she doesn't even know me.'"
The woman then alleged that Simone complained about the interaction with the 4-year-old to the store's manager. Simone also didn't like feeling like people were staring at her and when the store tried to offer solutions, Simone supposedly turned them down.
"The store offered curbside [assistance] and she declined. She was so rude to the staff. We offered her help (as we do with everyone) and she said, 'Do I look dumb?'"
She went on to claim that Simone's husband Jonathan was a "sweetheart" and mouthed the words "I'm sorry" after the alleged incident occurred.
The tweets generated a lot of attention online, and it wasn't long until Jonathan saw them for himself. The Green Bay Packers safety took to Twitter to respond to the woman and defend his wife's name.
Jonathan didn't appreciate the woman "spreading lies" on the internet and explained that in any instance, Simone has every right to durn down a photo opportunity.
Spreading lies on the internet is crazy, it’s okay for her to deny a picture. People don’t understand sometimes you just want to shop in peace, if she stops and takes one picture people will just keep following her and won’t leave us alone. https://t.co/ENSDaV28jf
He also emphasized that he "never heard [Simone] talk to someone like that, especially someone who asked for a picture." Jonathan called Simone the "sweetest person in the world," which is one of the reasons why he couldn't look past these allegations.
And another thing, I’ve never heard her talk to someone like that, especially to someone who asked her for a picture, like why would you try to make her look like that, she’s sweetest person in the world. I just couldn’t let this go, especially if i was there like you said i was https://t.co/ENSDaV28jf
The fact that people feel entitled to get an autograph on demand from a famous person is annoying ASF. They are people too, and when they’re not performing their craft, they deserve some peace in their lives too. She didn’t owe them 💩!
