Just months after Jonathan Owens made an explosive remark about his marriage to Simone Biles, the Olympian is speaking out about the backlash that followed.
While appearing on The Pivot podcast last fall, Owens implied that he was “the catch” in his relationship with Biles. He also claimed he didn’t know who the famous gymnast was before they met.
It didn’t take long for the NFL player to get slammed for the comments by the Internet.
Simone Biles finally addressed the comments while appearing on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast this week.
She recalled actually being in the same room that the podcast episode was being done in. “You just couldn’t see me on the videos,” she explained. “I was there for the whole entire video.”
Biles then said she was “feeling great” in the moment and thought Owen was doing awesome. “I was like, ‘My man just killed that,’” she joked.
Unfortunately, things took a turn when Simone Biles began to see online critics slamming her husband for the remarks. “So, whenever he did that interview, I thought everything was ok. And then I go on Twitter, and everybody’s like, divorce this man, he’s mean. I’m like, he’s the sweetest. He praises the ground that I walk on. Truly, I’ve never met a man like him.”
Simone Biles also pointed out that her fans misinterpreted her husband’s “catch” comment. “He never said I wasn’t a catch,” she clarified. “He said he was a catch because he is. I’ve never met a man like him. A lot of people that meet him are like, ‘Oh my gosh, I want a man like that.’”
Simone Biles Was Impacted By the Comments Made About Her Husband
As she continued to discuss the drama following her husband’s podcast interview, Simone Biles admitted she was heavily impacted by the criticism.
“So I thought it was hilarious at first,” Biles said about the outrage. “And then [the comments] hurt my feelings. One night, I broke down, and I’m like, ‘Why are you guys talking about husband like that?’ You don’t know him, you don’t know who he is, and if anybody’s met him, they know he’s the sweetest guy and will do anything for anybody.”
Simon Biles then added that the critics were talking about Owens the way they were because he’s her husband. “Talk about me all you want, but don’t come [for] my family,” she added. “Never.”
Biles and Owens have been romantically linked since 2020. They got married in April 2023.