Flavor Flav and Alexis Ohanian pay rent for U.S. Olympian Veronica Fraley

Veronica Fraley is scheduled to compete at the Paris Olympics for the first time on Friday.

So now is probably not a good time for distractions, like, say, having to pay rent back home in Nashville and not having the funds to cover it.

Fortunately, hip-hop pioneer Flavor Flav, billionaire Alexis Ohanian and others have Fraley covered.

Fraley was a second-year graduate student at Vanderbilt University when she won the NCAA discus throw championship by setting a school record with her throw of 208 feet, 10 inches in Eugene, Oregon, in June. She was named to the U.S. national team to try out several weeks later at the Olympic trials.

But the day before her Olympic debut, Fraley had something else on her mind.

“I’m competing in the Olympics TOMORROW and I can’t even pay my rent,” Fraley wrote on X on Thursday before adding that “my school only sent about 75% of my rent while they pay the football players (who haven’t won anything) enough to buy new cars and houses.”

Fraley clarified in a subsequent post on X that “my irritation is not with the school itself, but primarily with the rules that prevent me from earning the amount I AM WORTH as a college athlete,” while name, image and likeness deals often favor “popularity over performance. That’s all I’m saying.”

Flav is currently in Paris as the official endorser for the U.S. water polo teams. He has also pledged to financially support the women's water polo team. But apparently the Public Enemy co-founder's support isn't limited to just one sport. He saw Fraley's initial post and offered to help out.

“I understand,” Flav replied. “DM me and I'll send you the payment TODAY so you don't have to worry about it TOMORROW. I'll support you tomorrow! GO!”

Ohanian, the Reddit co-founder who is married to tennis great and four-time Olympic gold medalist Serena Williams, also commented on Fraley's post and offered to split Fraley's rent with Flav.

But Ohanian ended up doing more than that. He shared a screenshot showing he had transferred $7,760 to Fraley, an amount he chose as a nod to his tech company Seven Seven Six.

Fraley also organized an online fundraiser to “support my track and field journey as I begin my professional athletic career and continue to represent Team USA.”

Flav later posted on X that Fraley wouldn't have to worry about paying rent for the next few months.

“This [is] “The power of community,” he wrote. “7000 people saw my girl @vmfraley’s tweet, only 41 people liked it, only 5 people commented, only 1 tagged me and @alexisohanian. Now that tweet has been seen by 10 MILLION people, it’s paid her rent for the year, and the people have her back.”

Ohanian added: “Now you can focus on getting that hardware!”

This is what Fraley aims to do.

“This makes a huge difference in the WORLD,” she wrote in a post to Ohanian and Flav, “and I look forward to representing Team USA well this week.”