Kayla Nicole is setting the record straight.

The sports reporter shared the real inspiration behind her decision to dress up as Toni Braxton from her 2000 music video "He Wasn't Man Enough" for Halloween 2025 after many speculated that her getup was a subtle diss to her ex Travis Kelce and his fiancée Taylor Swift .

“I had a white best friend. Her name was Taylor ,” Kayla recalled on the Nov. 3 episode of her The Pre-Game With Kayla Nicole podcast . “And she [was] the only house I could go over to as a kid because my mom didn’t play them type of games.”

One day, the 34-year-old got a ride home from school with her pal and made the surprising discovery that she wasn't the only fan of Toni's song "He Wasn't Man Enough."

"Her mom was playing this song, playing at the top

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