Seeing Brian McKnight trend on Twitter for the rumored erasure of his older children—Brian Jr., Briana, Niko, and Clyde—and settle an alleged defamation lawsuit was not on this year’s Bingo card, but alas.
Last week, Radar Online reported the “Back At One” singer and his biological daughter, Briana, 21, settled a 2020 lawsuit where she claimed he “maliciously defamed” her on social media by alluding she was in an incestuous relationship and labeling her “promiscuous.” McKnight’s since-deleted post read, “She had some years earlier, and while a minor, engaged in sexual relations with an older cousin.” Cincinnati Enquirer noted that Briana had to disclose her entire sexual history in court.
Although the two have reportedly reached a private settlement, other moments of strife between the crooner and his older children surfaced on social media last weekend, leading McKnight to address the hearsay via Instagram.
In the caption of a shared photo of his blended family, the 53-year-old wrote, “Not sure how these posts that have been sitting here this whole time were left out of the false narrative that is trending. Abandonment? There’s always more to every story. Stay tuned.”
Not long before the alleged lawsuit, Briana spoke up about their estranged relationship with McKnight.
“‘Daddy’s little girl’ was never really a thing for me. Nobody understands what I’ve been through except for my siblings,” she wrote in the caption of a post in 2019. “Believe it or not, I’m not always the...
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