Popular TikToker Alix Earle is defending her valuable image by telling her side of the story in the Sophia Culpo and Braxton Berrios love scandal. Earle, was on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, saying Culpo and NFL player Braxton Berrios were not together when she started seeing him. Earle also blamed the “Culpo Sisters” for starting the rumors.

“I spent my childhood basically thinking that this is the worst thing you could do to another human,” she said, referencing her father’s affair. “So why the f–k would I do that?”

Seems strategic, but Earle never commented on the situation for months, even after her relationship with Berrios.

Of course, Earle is talking about it now to promote her upcoming podcast, “Hot Mess With Alix Earle,” which will be on Alex Cooper’s podcast network, UNWELL. Berrios clarified that his previous relationship ended in January and “had nothing to do with anybody else” — which Culpo subsequently denied in a since-deleted TikTok video alleging they still had been together in February.  There has been no response from the Culpo’s yet.