Crissy Froyd says the fallout around Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel pushed her to change locations multiple times. On the Mike Drop podcast with Mike J. Asti, she said she started moving because she feared who might be involved and wanted to keep her whereabouts hard to track.
“I’ve actually changed locations quite a few times because you never know who all is involved in this stuff,” Froyd said. She added, “You never know what people are trying to do to you. You never know.”
Froyd’s safety routine
Froyd said the moves were deliberate. “But whenever stuff like this happens, it’s kind of best to keep people guessing as to where your whereabouts are,” she said. That is the clearest account yet of how the dispute moved beyond online criticism and into her day-to-day decisions about where to stay.
Her account sits inside a broader scandal that unfolded in waves. Additional images later emerged showing Russini and Vrabel allegedly kissing at a New York City bar in March 2020, and TMZ later reported that Russini was visibly pregnant during a private boat trip in Putnam County, Tennessee, in June 2021.
The Athletic fallout
The reaction also carried a professional cost. Froyd said her outspokenness cost her a freelance position at, and she said she was among the few media figures willing to publicly challenge Russini after photos of Russini with Vrabel surfaced in April. Dianna Russini resigned from The Athletic on April 14, while the outlet is still in the process of its internal investigation.
Froyd also described a split between how she appears and how she feels. “I would say that most days I feel okay, but there is a constant, like, subconscious level of anxiety, if that makes sense, because it’s just like getting slapped with PTSD, like, all over again,” she said. That leaves her dealing with the public aftermath while still guarding her routine, and she recently said on X that she is going to law school for criminal defense.
Mike Vrabel’s draft absence
Vrabel also stepped away from the New England Patriots on the third day of the 2026 NFL Draft to seek counseling with his family. Against that backdrop, Froyd’s relocation makes the personal cost of the scandal harder to separate from the public story around Russini and Vrabel.
