Simone Biles is not biting her tongue about the controversy surrounding an interview that featured her husband Jonathan Owens.
In the second part of Simone Biles Rising, which premiered Friday, Oct. 25 on Netflix, the 11-time Olympic medalist offered her perspective on the public pushback after Owens’ comments on The Pivot podcast last year, and said his comments were “taken out of context.”
In the interview, the NFL player was asked if he was the “catch” in his relationship with Biles, to which he replied: “I always say that the men are the catch.”
When co-host Channing Crowder asked him how he was able to “pull Simone Biles,” Owens laughed and then said: “Man, it’s really how she pulled me, man. That’s the question.”
In the episode, Biles is seen laughing off-camera in response to Owens’ answer, but his opinions opened the couple up to a social media firestorm.
“Social media gives [followers] this …