Tianna Robillard finally broke her silence about what led to her shock split from NFL player Cody Ford, just two months after he got down on one knee.
The influencer revealed she called off their wedding in June after finding evidence that he cheated on her twice throughout the course of their two-year relationship.
She appeared on Thursday’s episode of the Hot Mess podcast, hosted by fellow social media star Alix Earle, to discuss her highly-publicized split from the Cincinnati Bengals guard.
‘I had a weird feeling,’ she began, before detailing a ‘big’ work opportunity in Paris that Ford seemed to ‘have a problem’ with her accepting in May.
‘I felt like .. I don’t feel supported, I don’t feel like my wins are being celebrated, and [my] career growth was becoming an issue between us,’ she went on.
The 27-year-old content creator said the ‘vibes were off’ with her husband-to-be while she was on the work trip, and she asked God to ‘smack [her] in the face’ if she ‘wasn’t meant to be in this relationship.’
The day after Robillard returned from Paris, she received an ‘unsettling’ message from a fan instructing her to check her Instagram messages.
At the time, she was living at the couple’s home in Dallas with their dogs while 27-year-old Ford while was in Ohio training with the Bengals.
‘I looked through my messages and I find what I needed … he was giving people the address to our Cincinnati home while he was over there for OTAs,’ she explained.
‘We were doing long distance for a couple of months but this was happening [two days] before he came home. So I dug more into it and got all the receipts and all the info I needed,’ she went on, noting that the woman also sent her ‘screenshots’ of her interactions with Ford.
‘The that were spoken [in the screenshots] I had never heard out of his mouth, I had never received myself, it was like, “Who are you? You got down on one knee a month before this.” I felt like my world was fake.’
Robillard spoke to her therapist and the pair called Ford to inform him she knew ‘what was going on’ and had to leave.
‘My girls came over that night and helped me through it and packed the car,’ she said.
Astonishingly, it wasn’t the first time the influencer had discovered Ford cheating on her.
‘It’s happened before. [I felt like] all the work we’ve done over the past year and a half after the first time was for nothing. I was like, “I gotta get out of here.”‘
Robillard went on to describe her heartbreaking decision to leave their home and the dogs she raised.
‘[He] gets to do that and [continue] living his life … now I’m fighting for a roof over my head, I left the dogs, I left the ring and I have to rebuild everything,’ she said.
‘It’s really a f**ked up situation … I gave you everything and it’s still not enough.’
The TikTok star is now looking forward, but she admitted she sometimes questions ‘if he even loved’ her while dealing with vile messages from NFL fans.
‘After learning what I’ve learned, once someone shows me who they are the first time, in the future, that’s what it’s gonna be,’ she said.
The former couple started dating in April 2022. He proposed to her in April 2024, before the nuptials were swiftly called off in June.
