Olivia Dunne said in a TikTok on Saturday {that a} group of males repeatedly run after her and yell at her in airports.
“I concern I’m being stalked and I don’t know what to do,” Dunne stated in a TikTok video with greater than 1 million views.
She stated each time she goes to the airport, “there’s a bunch of not less than 10 middle-aged males ready for me and so they harass me.”
She stated the lads will yell at her for her autograph and make a scene, inflicting different vacationers to turn into scared.
“It’s loopy,” Dunne stated.
Dunne, a former school gymnast who gained recognition for her social media posts and has greater than 8 million followers on TikTok, repeatedly paperwork her travels. She stated even when she has a connecting flight, the lads will likely be on the airport. She speculates it has one thing to do with the airline.
“And the worst half is, it’s not solely me,” Dunne stated. She stated she remembers Olympian Gabby Thomas talking out about the identical drawback.
In her personal TikTok video, Thomas was asking her social media followers for recommendation as a result of a bunch of males had been stalking her at airports in a number of cities.
When she would reject signing something for these males, she stated they might turn into “aggressive and hostile.” Tennis participant Coco Gauff commented on Thomas’ TikTok noting that it occurs to her too.
“This occurs to me too, I don’t know the way it occurs,” Gauff wrote. “My idea is possibly somebody on the airport suggestions them off.”
In Dunne’s TikTok video, she shared one other video of her getting off a red-eye flight in tears as a result of the lads had been ready for her.
“It must cease as a result of it’s scary for ladies,” Dunne stated. “It’s bizarre.”
In 2023, Dunne stated safety began touring with the LSU gymnastics crew after a bunch of young men chanted her name outdoors a meet in Utah despite the fact that Dunne wasn’t competing.
That very same yr, she said she stopped going to courses in particular person “for security causes.”
“There have been some scares previously, and I simply wish to be as cautious as potential,” Dunne told Elle magazine. “I don’t need folks to know my every day schedule and the place I’m.”
