Ryan Lochtes fiancee claps back at ex-wife over home-wrecker allegations

Ryan Lochte’s fiancée, Molly Gillihan, pushed back on claims by his ex-wife, Kayla Reid, that they were friendly acquaintances when she got together with the retired U.S.Olympic swimmer last April.After their divorce was finalized last month, Reid claimed in a profile with People that Lochte and Gillihan had a secret rendezvous — and she accused Lochte of substance abuse and infidelity.Gillihan fired back at Reid’s claims and explained her and Lochte’s relationship timeline in an interview published Thursday with TMZ.

“No [I wasn’t Kayla’s friend] and I’ll take that to my grave,” Gillihan said.“I would never consider Kayla a friend of mine, ever.

I would never date a friend’s husband.“… I did not break up your marriage.I’m not a home-wrecker.

Your home was broken when I met Ryan.He was not living in the home.

[Reid] filed for divorce.… Reid had kicked him out.“I understand her being mad and upset, but to lie and make things up about me, I don’t get.

I really don’t understand.”Gillihan said she met Reid when they sat next each other at party at a restaurant in 2021, and they shared stories of their personal lives with each other.Gillihan, a former preschool teacher, said she told Reid she was fresh out of a “brutal divorce” — and recalled Reid telling her she was “not very much not happy in her marriage with Ryan” at the time.After that, Gillihan said they never hung out, and she and Reid had spoken “four or fives times in my life.”Gillihan said her and Lochte’s first date was April 10, 2025.Reid, who works as a realtor in Gainesville, filed for divorce from Lochte last March.Gillihan claimed Reid that things got “messy” from April until May of last year.

“It got so messy because she kept coming around she kept being places I was at and she kept talking [negatively] to me about him,” Gillihan said.“It was messy on my part if I could do it again I would’ve just removed myself from the situatio...