Olivia Dunne said in a TikTok on Saturday that a group of men regularly run after her and yell at her in airports.
“I fear I’m being stalked and I don’t know what to do,” Dunne said in a TikTok video with more than 1 million views.
She said every time she goes to the airport, “there’s a group of at least 10 middle-aged men waiting for me and they harass me.”
She said the men will yell at her for her autograph and make a scene, causing other travelers to become scared.
“It’s crazy,” Dunne said.
Dunne, a former college gymnast who gained popularity for her social media posts and has more than 8 million followers on TikTok, regularly documents her travels. She said even when she has a connecting flight, the men will be at the airport. She speculates it has something to do with the airline.
“And the worst part is, it’s not only me,” Dunne said. She said she remembers Olympian Gabby Thomas speaking out about the same problem.
In her own TikTok video, Thomas was asking her social media followers for advice because a group of men were stalking her at airports in multiple cities.
When she would reject signing anything for these men, she said they would become “aggressive and hostile.” Tennis player Coco Gauff commented on Thomas’ TikTok noting that it happens to her too.
“This happens to me too, I don’t know how it happens,” Gauff wrote. “My theory is maybe someone at the airport tips them off.”
In Dunne’s TikTok video, she shared another video of her getting off a red-eye flight in tears because the men were waiting for her.
“It needs to stop because it’s scary for girls,” Dunne said. “It’s weird.”
In 2023, Dunne said security started traveling with the LSU gymnastics team after a group of young men chanted her name outside a meet in Utah even though Dunne wasn’t competing.
That same year, she said she stopped going to classes in person “for safety reasons.”
“There were some scares in the past, and I just want to be as careful as possible,” Dunne told Elle magazine. “I don’t want people to know my daily schedule and where I am.”
