Matt Barnes reached a breaking point with the rumors swirling around his name. The former NBA forward jumped on Instagram to clear the air , telling fans that he never lost money to an AI model on a dating app and never filed a lawsuit about it, PEOPLE reports. The story spread fast online, but Barnes wanted everyone to know that none of it came from him.

Before addressing the rumor directly, Barnes said he “hit rock bottom” this year and dealt with real problems, but a claim that he paid an online phantom “sixty one thousand dollars” never made his list of struggles.

He walked through the wild stories pushed about him, telling fans the chatter ranged from “me being gay” to returning from Dubai only to discover blogs saying, “I’m suing an AI model.” Barnes fired off at sites that ra

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