WNBA player Lexie Brown calls out Klay Thompson, Megan The Stallion for not shutting down affair rumors
EXCLUSIVE: Seattle Storm player Lexie Brown lately put out an announcement denying rumors that she and NBA star Klay Thompson had an affair, amid his latest breakup with rapper Megan The Stallion. Now, after struggling alleged demise threats over the rumors, Brown is asking out Thompson and the rapper for not disputing the rumors themselves.
“I wouldn’t have minded if either one of them came out and said it because at the end of the day, they’re the ones that are in the relationship, they’re the ones that are dealing with this, and they’re the ones who are communicating with each other. So one of them, if not both of them know that it was not me,” Brown instructed Fox News Digital in a latest interview.
“The truth is over there somewhere, and I was expecting it to reveal itself from that side of it… for them to just allow me to get dragged, for a lot of people to allow me to get dragged through the mud… it was just really disappointing.”
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Lexie Brown of the Seattle Storm poses for a portrait throughout media day at BECU Storm Center for Basketball Performance in Seattle, Washington, on April 22, 2026. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
On her previous interactions with Thompson and Megan The Stallion, Brown mentioned, “Me and Klay, we know each other because we do play professional basketball. I wouldn’t have considered him a friend. I do not know Meg The Stallion at all.”
Brown, a 2021 WNBA champion with the Chicago Skymentioned she initially thought that certainly one of them would dispute the rumors shortly after they started, as she centered on a WNBA preseason sport. But it by no means got here.
“I had a game to focus on, and I quite literally didn’t have time to handle that and in the back of my mind knowing 100% what was being said was false that surely someone would step in and say, no, this is a lie. Please point your fingers somewhere else or don’t point them at all. But don’t point them at Lexi, and by the time the game was over, it hadn’t happened,” she added.
“I’m still the only person that has denied this entire situation of my involvement and claimed that this is 100% false. And the fact that I’m still the only one that is defending my name, I just I have no idea how to process that, and that’s the last thing that I’m like struggling to process is that there’s this massive outcry for protecting black women and nobody has mentioned Lexie Brown’s name in any of those conversations.”
The state of affairs escalated to a daunting diploma for Brown, as she claims she was compelled to take drastic measures to make sure her personal security.
“I used to be getting threats on my life. I used to be getting threats on my well being,” Brown mentioned. “My family started getting comments and threats from people. I’ve had to hire security to travel with me places. So it got to a point where I was just scared for myself.”
Brown’s father, former NBA player Dee Brown, says the expertise has been “weakening” for him.
Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson in New York City in July 2025. (Photo by Raymond Hall/GC Images)
“As a father, watching the negative, hateful, and most importantly, false attacks lobbed at my daughter has been debilitating. Seeing her live in absolute fear and exhaustion over these false attacks, and then seeing these attacks repeated by so many media outlets without even a shred of proof is beyond horrifying,” Dee Brown instructed Fox News Digital.
“I’ve never seen behavior like this. Being in the spotlight is not new for Lexie, but what is new is how social media and the media have changed society for the worse. Today I say, not as a former player who understands harsh opinions and criticisms from fans, but as a dad who realizes that this could be anyone’s daughter, this is simply not acceptable.”
Lexie has turned off her feedback and in the end deleted the social media apps from her telephone altogether to deal with basketball and her psychological well-being.
​The stress of the state of affairs carried a really actual bodily danger for Brown, who has been battling Crohn’s illness for the previous three years. After a grueling journey to get again into taking part in form, together with extreme weight reduction, a number of surgical procedures, and a taxing stint with the Los Angeles Sparks, Brown famous that this degree of hysteria may have triggered a extreme flare-up of her situation.
​”Thankfully right now, I’m on an excellent routine, an excellent medication. And I’ve got myself to a really, really good place, physically and mentally, to where this has not taken me out,” Brown mentioned. “It absolutely could have, and I think even my decision to just get off social media completely has helped me not go into a flare-up.”
Brown’s battle with Crohn’s illness, a continual inflammatory bowel diseasestarted unexpectedly whereas she was taking part in for the Los Angeles Sparks in 2023. What she initially attributed to exhaustion and nerves shortly deteriorated right into a extreme medical emergency that required quick intervention.
“I finally had to reach out and really ask for help… he went to the hospital and was in surgery 24 hours after that, and that was the first of many,” Brown mentioned.
The restoration course of proved to be an extremely isolating and grueling expertise. Brown famous that she had minimal help throughout her time in Los Angeles, leaving her “ubering myself to and from doctor’s appointments, ubering myself to and from surgeries.”
The bodily and emotional toll was devastating; she misplaced 30 kilos and plummeted into what she described as a “really dark place, physically and mentally,” whereas making an attempt to pressure her physique by way of the calls for of knowledgeable basketball season.​
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Following a commerce to the Seattle Storm, Brown lastly discovered the structural help she desperately wanted to handle her situation. She praised the Storm group for offering a wholesome, stress-free surroundings, pointing to their 24-hour facility entry, top-tier restoration instruments, and catered meals
But now, with rumors about her and Thompson, even the sanctuary of Seattle hasn’t confirmed to be absolutely secure for Brown.
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