Australian Breaker Raygun Sought Mental Health Support After Widely Mocked Olympics Performance, Says She Still Hasn’t Been “In A Place” To Watch Jimmy Fallon Parody

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Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, the Australian Olympic breaker who went viral after her unusual moves were widely mocked in the days after her performance at the Paris Games this summer, says the worldwide ridicule and attention prompted her to seek mental health support and to withdraw from all social media.

And she hasn’t even seen the Jimmy Fallon-Rachel Dratch parody. “I don’t think I’m in the place yet to watch it,” she says in a new interview with the Australian network television show The Project. “I knew that I was going to get beaten, and I knew that people were not going to understand my style and what I was going to do,” the 37-year-old breaker said. “The odds were against me, that’s for sure.” “Fortunately I got some mental health support pretty quickly and I also went off social media,” she added.

Gunn’s breaking routine on August 9 in Paris quickly, if temporarily, became the focal point of the new Olympics competition category, drawing jokes and criticism for unusual moves like the “kangaroo hop,” which, in a tribute to Australia’s national mascot, involved bouncing from side to side with wrists bent.

That particular move, along with another now-signature dance in which she laid on her side and rotated in a circular motion that some likened to the old Three Stooges routine, was parodied by Fallon and guest Rachel Dratch on the August 12 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.