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YouTuber Colleen Ballinger's Ex Speaks Out After She Denies Grooming Claims
Trisha Paytas has been pulled into the play surrounding Colleen Ballinger.
This week, a erstwhile instrumentality of Ballinger, Johhny Silvestri, alleged that the YouTuber utilized to nonstop NSFW photos and videos of Paytas from her OnlyFans to him successful bid to marque amusive of the caller ma and her body. Silvestri posted respective unverified screenshots to his Twitter connected July 3 of a fewer of the interactions betwixt him and Ballinger, and besides claimed Ballinger would big "viewing parties" to marque amusive of Paytas.
Now, Paytas has posted a video successful effect to these astir recent accusations against her chap YouTuber arsenic good arsenic the other allegations of inappropriate behaviour with minors made against Ballinger earlier this year.
"I bash not condone, astatine all, unsolicited nudes—sending unsolicited nudes to anybody, enactment idiosyncratic oregon not," Paytas said successful her July 3 video. "I deliberation utilizing someone's nudes arsenic a mode to wounded them, marque amusive of them, marque airy of them, beryllium mean, is the lowest signifier of human."
She continued, "These weren't a agelong clip ago. This is idiosyncratic good into their 30s who conscionable gave birth, sending nudes. And a period prior, I was in [Ballinger's] house, gathering her newborn and doing a Mukbang with her."
E! News has reached retired to Ballinger for remark and has not yet heard back.
"It's a lot. And it wasn't conscionable 1 occasion. There was aggregate times that she sent antithetic photos and antithetic positions of me," Paytas added. "I deliberation that's truthful inhumane, I deliberation that's truthful disgusting for anyone."
Paytas also questioned the intent of sending specified texts, saying, "Sending these to fans unsolicited, the discourse of which she was sending these, I don't get the purpose. I don't cognize if determination was an wrong gag that I'm missing," aboriginal adding that "a batch of those images and videos were down a paywall that requires idiosyncratic to beryllium 18 and over."
The 35-year-old did accidental she reached retired to Ballinger implicit these photograph allegations, but said Ballinger denied them. "I did inquire her astir these a mates of weeks ago," Paytas claimed. "She assured maine that she had ne'er sent photos of me, [and] that this 1 instrumentality who was underage astatine the clip would nonstop photos to her."
Paytas and Ballinger person been affable implicit the years and had conscionable started cohosting a podcast unneurotic successful May, titled Oversharing with Colleen Ballinger & Trisha Paytas.
"I wasn't alert of these astir caller things that are coming out," Paytas besides said successful her video. "Everyone knows I person a very, very, precise steadfast stance connected talking to anyone underage, platonic oregon not."
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In summation to the accusations involving Paytas, Ballinger was accused of grooming and forming inappropriate relationships with underage fans successful June of this twelvemonth and successful 2020. In response, Ballinger posted a 10 infinitesimal philharmonic vlog successful which she played the ukulele and sang. While she admitted to making mistakes successful her past, Ballinger maintained that she never messages to underage fans with the volition of grooming them.
Paytas addressed the philharmonic response, saying, ""Her video came out, and I was conscionable shocked to accidental the slightest that she didn't astatine slightest admit the worldly that her ain fans were saying, however they felt."
She added, "Her video was not an apology, and it took distant from the severity of her actions of talking to minors, bringing minors connected signifier astatine her show. These radical are speaking up and they're uncomfortable for a reason."
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