Flavor Flav and Alexis Ohanian team up to help Olympian Veronica Fraley pay her rent
Veronica Fraley's post on X about struggling to pay her rent came a day before her first track and field event. It got the attention of Flavor Flav and Alexis Ohanian.
Ahead of her Olympics debut, track and field athlete Veronica Fraley had a more pressing concern on her mind than the Games: paying her rent on time.
Fraley, 24, lamented her situation on social media Thursday as she prepared for her women's discus throw qualification round in Paris.
"I compete in the Olympic Games TOMORROW and can’t even pay my rent," Fraley, is the 2024 NCAA discus champion, wrote on X. "my school only sent about 75% of my rent while they pay football players (who haven’t won anything) enough to buy new cars and houses"
Her post quickly drew the attention of rapper Flavor Flav and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who both responded online pledging to help by sending Fraley some money directly.
"I gotchu,,, DM me and I’ll send payment TODAY so you don’t have to worry bout it TOMORROW," Flav replied Thursday on X, "and imma be rooting for ya tomorrow LETZ GO,!!!
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