Alix Earle is known for her brutal honesty online, but even her family was surprised — and concerned — by just how much she was sharing with the public.
“Recently I’ve shared a lot of my mental fluctuations and me crying online, and my family’s like, ‘You have to stop. You look psychotic,’” Earle, 25, told Nylon in an interview published Wednesday, March 25.
Despite previously documenting highlights from her personal life, Earle has considered pulling back, adding, “I think that’s been a really hard thing because everyone was so involved in my last relationship online. So I feel like that’s something where I would try to make sure it’s very concrete before sharing.”
She concluded: “I say that now, and then I’m going to be blabbing about it.”
After rising to stardom on TikTok, Earle started dating football player Braxton Berrios, which led to her followers getting invested in the romance. Us Weekly reported in December 2025 that Earle and Berrios, 30, called it quits after two years of dating.
“[The] majority of their relationship was long-distance and it was hard for them to navigate,” an insider exclusively told Us at the time. “They mutually agreed on the split.”
The influencer broke her silence on the split in an Instagram video, telling her followers, “Braxton and I are no longer together. We have been doing long-distance since basically June and we haven’t got to see each other that often. It’s just been really difficult for me.”
Earle noted that competing on Dancing With the Stars in Los Angeles “really motivated” her, which caused her to consider moving.
“I think that was a scary thing for me to realize because it meant us not being in the same place,” she continued. “A part of me also really wants to be focusing on myself right now. I just feel like I can’t be what Braxton needs. I want him to have someone who can be there for him 24/7 and support him. He wasn’t really expecting that of me … I constantly felt guilty.”
Earle went on to say that she and Berrios were on “two different paths.”
“We’re on good terms and I don’t want anyone to come for him or be mean to him,” she concluded. “I think I ultimately just wanted to go with trusting my feelings. This has just been really hard. … It’s not drama. It’s not because he did anything wrong or I did anything wrong. It just didn’t really feel like it was working out in the moment.”
Amid their breakup, Earle made headlines when she shared an emotional video about seeing Berrios again.
“I was really emotional the first night,” she shared in a February TikTok about the “really weird” moment. “We were, like, in the same place, but we didn’t say ‘hi’ to each other, just ’cause I didn’t want to, like, go up and annoy him, I don’t know.”
Earle “briefly” walked up to speak with Berrios. “It’s weird when you go from someone being, like, your best friend to being a stranger in the corner of the room,” she continued. “So that was tough — and by tough I mean terrible.”
In the comments section, a fan compared the interaction to Taylor Swift’s 2017 song “New Year’s Day” from her album Reputation. Earle replied with a video where she was sobbing after listening to the song for the first time.
Earle added text over the video, which read, “‘Alix Earle hasn’t been posting much.’ Probably bc this is me spiraling every night.”
Following their split, Earle was linked to Tom Brady. A source told Us earlier this year that Earle and Brady, 48, are “hooking up, but it’s not serious.”
