Flavor Flav and Alexis Ohanian pay track and field star’s rent before she competes in Olympics

Alexis Ohanian and Taste Flav have revealed that they paid observe and area Olympian Veronica Fraley’s hire.

The Workforce USA star took to X, previously referred to as Twitter, on August 1 to disclose that she didn’t have the funds at the moment to pay her hire. She additionally famous that the monetary situation got here as she’s making ready to compete on this 12 months’s Olympics.

“I compete within the Olympic Video games TOMORROW and might’t even pay my hire,” the Vanderbilt College athlete tweeted. “My college solely despatched about 75 % of my hire whereas they pay soccer gamers (who haven’t gained something) sufficient to purchase new vehicles and homes.”

She later clarified her frustrations about not having the ability to afford her hire, including: “Thanks for the supporting messages however I need to make clear my irritation isn’t with the varsity itself, primarily the foundations that bar me from making the quantity I’m WORTH as a collegiate athlete reminiscent of NIL which favors reputation over efficiency. That’s all I’m sayin. Want me luck tm!”

After her tweet went viral, Ohanian didn’t hesitate to reply and provide to assist out, writing: “Obtained you! DM me your $cashtag.”

He then tagged Taste Flav – the sponsor for the US girls’s and males’s water polo workforce –  and requested for his help, tweeting: “C’mon now! I’ll cut up it with @flavorfav.”

Nonetheless, the Reddit founder’s publish about Taste Flav got here after the singer made his personal provide to assist Fraley pay her hire.

“I gotchu, DM me and I’ll ship fee TODAY so that you don’t have to fret bout it TOMORROW, and imma be rooting for ya tomorrow LETZ GO!!!”

Ohanian then responded to his personal tweet, the place he mentioned splitting the hire with Taste Flav, and wrote: “Replace! It’s finished.” He then confirmed a screenshot of the $7,760 fee he despatched to the Olympian on Venmo, which included a observe that learn: “‘MURICA,” together with the American flag and gold medal emojis.

Taste Flav then re-shared the screenshot of Ohanian’s Venmo fee and wrote: “HERO, absolute hero!!!”

Chatting with The Each day Beast, a consultant for the musician confirmed that the Olympian accepted his cash and the 2 of them “have been messaging.” The consultant additionally clarified that Ohanian gave Fraley the cash after Taste Flav already paid her hire.

“Flav paid her hire in full. Alexis one upped him and despatched her $7,760 – in honor of the title of his firm,” the consultant stated, referring to the title of Ohanian’s expertise firm, Seven Seven Six.

He additionally issued an announcement in an electronic mail to the publication about desirous to assist main athletes. “I’m simply down to assist these in want who’re representing all of us. That is the kind of consciousness I’ve been attempting to convey to those Olympians,” he stated.

The Unbiased has contacted representatives for Taste Flav and Ohanian for remark.

Taste Flav has continued to be vocal about advocating for fellow Olympians. In actual fact, two months earlier than he formally introduced his sponsorship with the US Water Polo groups, he’d already shared his plans to work with them on social media. When workforce captain Maggie Steffens paid tribute to her teammates and expressed her love for her grueling sport in a tribute on Instagram in Could, she additionally highlighted the fixed monetary wrestle for many Olympic athletes. Taste Flav then made his method to the feedback of her publish, the place he first publicly shared that he wished to sponsor the ladies’s sports activities workforce.

“AYYY YOOO, as a lady dad and supporter of all girls’s sports activities – imma personally sponsor you my lady, no matter you want. And imma sponsor the entire workforce,” he wrote. “My supervisor is in contact together with your agent and imma use all my relationships and sources to assist all y’all much more. That’s a FLAVOR FLAV promise.”