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Olympian Stephen Nedoroscik and girlfriend Tess McCracken break up
Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik and his girlfriend, Tess McCracken, have called it quits after 10 years of dating.
“Stephen and I are no longer together, and we haven’t been since the beginning of January,” she shared via TikTok Saturday.
“It’s been long enough and people have figured it out,” she added, explaining that she deleted all photos of herself with the Bronze medalist on social media and had come across “multiple Reddit threads” about their relationship.
“I feel like it’s just easier to have it out in the open and not really have to hide it anymore,” McCracken, 28, continued.
“I wasn’t really trying to hide it in the first place, but it’s weird to have to announce your breakup,” she added.
Clearing up speculation behind their split, the TikToker said, “There wasn’t any drama, there wasn’t some big, blowup fight where one of us stormed out, there wasn’t any cheating [and] neither of us came out as gay.”
McCracken also shut down rumors that she gave the 27-year-old athlete, who participated in the 2024 Paris Olympics, an “ultimatum” about getting married.
“It was really just time, and that sucks a lot. There’s really no other way to put it,” she stated, adding that she and Nedoroscik started dating when they were 17 and 18, respectively.
“Now 27 and 28,” the former gymnast added. “As it turns out, there are things that didn’t matter at 18 that matter when you’re in your later 20s.”
Despite parting ways, the exes remain on amicable terms.
“There’s no bad blood. I want to see him succeed in everything, but the way that support is coming has to be different now,” McCraken said.
The former couple split when their apartment lease ended in January, and McCraken has since moved into a new apartment in Florida.
Nedoroscik and McCracken met in their freshman year at Penn State in 2016, when both were on the school’s gymnastics team.
“I was like, ‘This girl seems cool.’ She’s a little weird like me, so we kinda clicked,” Nedoroscik previously told Access Hollywood.
McCracken stayed by her now ex’s side as he competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics and Season 33 of “Dancing With the Stars.”
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