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YouTuber Colleen Ballinger Apologizes for Racist Remarks
Joshua David Evans is adding his 2 cents.
After Colleen Ballinger, who amassed fame connected YouTube done her cringeworthy change ego Miranda Sings, issued a lengthy, ukulele-backed opus successful effect to recent grooming allegations, her ex-husband shared his thoughts connected the controversy.
"This behaviour was my world anytime I spoke up & disagreed with her actions & rhetoric during 2009-2016," Joshua tweeted connected June 28. "I was gaslit too. I was made to consciousness similar I was ever the problem. Any symptom I felt was an inconvenience and was belittled."
The 39-year-old, different fashionable YouTuber successful the aboriginal 2010s who divided from Colleen aft conscionable implicit a twelvemonth of matrimony and 7 years together, past followed up with a clarification connected wherever helium stands connected contented creation.
"I person nary tendency to usage this arsenic a catalyst for a YouTube comeback," he added. "It's not a harmless spot for me. I'm past that. My dependable is lone present to assistance validate those that are hurting, thing more. I person nary request to marque immoderate wealth disconnected of this. That is gross & not successful my heart, whatsoever."
E! News has reached retired to Colleen's squad for remark but has not heard back.
For her part, Colleen refuted the allegations of grooming and forming inappropriate relationships with underage fans successful a philharmonic vlog connected June 28.
While playing the ukulele and singing, Colleen compared the accusations to a "toxic gossip train" headed for "manipulation station" portion the remainder of the net "tie maine to the tracks and harass maine for my past."
The 36-year-old went connected to explicate however successful an effort "to beryllium besties with everybody" she would nonstop messages to fans earlier successful her career. As she enactment it, determination were "times successful the DMs erstwhile I would overshare details of my life—which was truly weird of me—and I haven't done that successful years due to the fact that I changed my behaviour and took accountability."
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She added that she has since learned "that possibly determination should beryllium immoderate boundaries there."
Earlier this month, the Haters Back Off star was accused of grooming when YouTuber KodeeRants shared screenshots of an alleged substance speech betwixt the histrion and her fans. The unverified radical text, named "Colleeny's Weenies," showed the contented creator allegedly asking fans their "favorite position" during 1 conversation, per NBC News.
But portion she conceded to making "jokes successful mediocre taste" and successful her effect video, Colleen denied ever sending inappropriate messages to underage fans with the volition of grooming them.
"I conscionable wanted to accidental that the lone happening I've ever groomed is my 2 Persian cats," she said. "I'm not a groomer. I'm conscionable a loser who didn't recognize I shouldn't respond to fans."
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Colleen has antecedently addressed to allegations implicit her behaviour with fans. In 2020, chap contented creator Adam McIntyre posted a video called "colleen ballinger, halt lying" successful which helium accused her of putting him successful uncomfortable situations erstwhile helium was a teen. He specifically called retired an lawsuit successful which she sent him lingerie during a livestream.
At the time, Colleen responded to Adam by acknowledging that the underwear incidental was "completely stupid," adding successful a separate apology video, "I should ne'er person sent that."
"I don't cognize what portion of my encephalon was missing astatine the clip that I thought, 'Oh, this is simply a normal, silly happening to do,'" she continued. "But I americium not a monster."
In the aftermath of the caller grooming allegations and Colleen's philharmonic response, Adam noted a metallic lining successful a scathing connection connected societal media.
"im gladsome her video did ONE thing," helium tweeted June 28," amusement you each EXACTLY the benignant of evil pistillate she is, that a batch of america person experienced implicit the past fewer years down the scenes, the disguise has slipped…everyone conscionable the REAL colleen ballinger."
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