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Ryan Clark discussed Puka Nacua's paternity drama last year.
Paku Nacua’s ex-girlfriend, Hallie Aiono, took to social media this week to speak on cheating rumors and a paternity test drama that surfaced last year during her pregnancy.
She took aim at Ryan Clark’s Pivot podcast for spewing “vile” claims about her situation, which she says they knew nothing about.
Aiono says that her world was turned upside down due to a financial battle with the Los Angeles Rams wide receiver. Clark and Co. further fueled hate thrown in her direction.
Who is Hallie Aiono?
The content creator dated Nacua in college at BYU and into the NFL. The relationship dated back to at least 2021. She was pregnant with the wideout’s son last year.
@hallieaiono puka baby❤️🩹
Last summer, she submitted a petition to confirm that Nacua was the father of the child. She also asked the court to award joint legal custody, but to give her full physical custody and only visitation rights to the NFL star.
That filing sparked speculation of potential cheating rumors.
Ryan Clark fueled hate on his podcast.
In an episode that aired last July, Clark, Channing Crowder, and Fred Taylor discussed both the optics and consequences of the paternity test drama. For the most part, they praised Puka Nacua while putting down his ex.
“Congratulations brother,” Crowder said. “You got out of the spider’s web before it stung your a–. She helped him out with this. You don’t even know (who the father is)?”
Clark added on “You don’t have to prove (paternity) if (Nacua) believes it. What are you doing? You know why she’s even dumber?… (She) had one job. If you were in if for the money, you had one job… To not have s– with somebody else.
“You couldn’t wait… I pray that it’s not (Puka’s) baby.”
It does, in fact, appear to be Puka Nacua’s baby. The receiver was in the delivery room when he was born. Aiono opened up on the drama in a TikTok post this offseason. She described the backlash received from the situation, which led to suicidal thoughts.
Hallie Aiono goes public.
Aiono says that she was “blocked” by the father of her child during her pregnancy. She was seeking confirmation of paternity to ensure financial support from a legal standpoint.
“A year ago, three former NFL guys decided to talk about me on their podcast. They talked about me in a very disgusting and vile way… They talked so confidently about me, as if they knew me and what I was going through, and a year later, I am still healing from it,” she said.
“What they didn’t know, and the world didn’t know, was that behind the headlines, I wasn’t receiving financial, emotional, physical support that I needed… I was focused on protecting myself and my son.”
Aiono denies cheating. In fact, she alleges that Nacua was the offender of infidelity. The paternity test request was spun into something bigger, Aiono claims.
Nacua is one of the NFL’s biggest stars, totaling nearly 4,200 receiving yards across three years with the Rams. He led the NFL in receiving last season.
He is entering the final year of his rookie contract and has an average annual salary north of $1 million per year. He has not publicly responded to Aiono’s video, nor have the members of the Pivot podcast.