The ex-fiancée of Tampa Bay Buccaneers star Tez Johnson is claiming the wide receiver cheated on her on the same day he proposed.
Laila Thompson-Wainer, a part-time staffer for the Seattle Seahawks, told her side of the story in a five-minute-long TikTok video uploaded on Saturday, February 21.
"A year ago today I got engaged and later found out he cheated on me the same day he proposed," Thompson-Wainer began explaining to her 200,000-plus followers. "So I thought we would reflect on February 21 together over how crazy that is. No, I'm just kidding, I don't know why I'm laughing. It's really not funny. It was really traumatizing."
She continued, "This morning I woke up, not sad because of him. There's no reason I would ever want to be with someone like that, but more so just weighing on me the grief of when I believed people were inherently good. I went through 23 years of life believing in the good in people always as a default. And I feel like in the last year one of my biggest takeaways has been there are some evil people out there. There are fake people, there are liars, and I just hadn't run into that, and that's privilege."
Thompson-Wainer then laid out the timeline of the day from her perspective, which began that morning in their Orange County apartment. The pair later went to a reptile zoo with Johnson's hairstylist and her son before going back to their apartment to get ready for what she thought was a photoshoot - though she suspected a proposal was imminent.
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"We arrived to this beautiful venue in the hills," Thompson-Wainer described. "I remember walking on this driveway and I hear music and I see this gorgeous floral setup right out of my dreams that I had as a child. He gets down on one knee, puts the ring on my finger, I just remember saying my cheeks hurt so much from smiling."
The couple then did an engagement photoshoot on the beach before going to a sushi dinner and heading back to the apartment.
She later learned that Johnson, 23, texted his ex-girlfriend that morning. Thompson-Wainer shared a screenshot of the alleged text, which read "need your throat."
The screenshot also showed a text from the day before, which read, "I need to see you like idk what else to say I think we have to," and one from the day before that, which said, "what ever team I visit we can just meet there and when I come down there."
After the engagement dinner, Johnson allegedly texted his ex again. Thompson-Wainer shared another screenshot of the alleged conversation.
"When can I c** in you and f*** you like I want to?" the text reads.
Us Weekly has reached out to Johnson via the Buccaneers for comment.
"I've given up trying to understand how someone can be that evil," Thompson-Wainer said. "I think you just have to be a sociopath and that's just it at the end of the day."
Thompson-Wainer ended her video by explaining why she chose to tell her story.
"Let me utilize the blueprint of a bad, s***ty man to promote conversations about healing and create a community of women," she said. "If I could make one person feel seen, heard or understood then I have accomplished my purpose.
She concluded, "Don't you dare try to silence me again."
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