What’s up?
It’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver News and James Charles was just interviewed for
the first time about the Tati Westbrook, Shane Dawson, Jeffree Star drama that’s been unfolding
over the past week.
Alright, so on June 30th, we all entered a new phase of Dramageddon when Tati uploaded
her bombshell video “Breaking My Silence.”
The video has around 10 million views and it caused Tati, Jeffree, Shane, and James
to trend all week.
In case you haven’t had a chance to watch, long story short, Tati blames Shane and Jeffree
for allegedly manipulating her into uploading her now infamous “Bye Sister” video last
year.
In the “Bye Sister” video she publicly cut ties with James Charles, and it caused
one of the biggest YouTube scandals in history.
Looking back on that time, Tati believes that Shane and Jeffree used her and tried to cancel
James for their own benefit and she has since apologized to James.
“James I am so sorry that I allowed myself to be poisoned and weaponized against you.
I’m sorry that I bought into any of their lies.
Believing those lies and allowing myself to be gaslit into making that video is one of
the biggest regrets of my life.”
Shane and others like Trisha Paytas and Ryland Adams have reacted to Tati’s video calling
her out for allegedly lying about some of what she said, though Jeffree has remained
very quiet through all of this.
If you want more on all of that drama, we’ve linked another Clevver video above and that
covers all the tea.
But for now, let’s dive into James Charles’ response to all of this, because he too has
been pretty quiet about the drama on social media since Tati uploaded her video.
In Tati’s video, she said that James actually offered to be by her side in the “Breaking
My Silence” video, but she decided to do it alone.
The day Tati uploaded the video, James did tweet to his fans saying quote, “love u
guys.”
And then a couple days later, he revealed that he would be taking the week off from
uploading content to his channel.
James tweeted saying quote, “Morning Sisters!
There won’t be a new video today.
Thank you for allowing me to take some time this week, the love and support you are sending
has been helping more than you know.”
So while he hadn’t said much about the drama, he decided to take the week off, which is
totally understandable given how much his mental health was impacted last year from
this scandal.
Over the weekend, a paparazzi stopped James and asked him about everything that has gone
down over the past week along with whether or not he’d join the Hype House.
The video was shared by Youtube account, celebrity livin.
And we’ve got all the tea but James had a little disclaimer before we cut to some
of the footage.
He tweeted saying quote, “I always get paparazzi’d at the worst times lmaooo it’s 97 degrees
out and I’m literally wearing hoodie and sweats melting while waiting in line at a
food truck”
Alright, so don’t @ him for his lewwwwk.
In the video shared by ‘celebrity livin’, the paparazzi started off by asking James
about the drama in general and why he thinks there’s so many issues in the YouTube beauty
community.
“Why is there always drama going on in the beauty community?
Who knows.
I’m just staying out of it minding my own business, just moved into a beautiful new
house and I have great friends around me.”
Then, when the photographer asked James about Shane he said that he didn’t want to talk
about anything related to him.
The photographer said QUOTE, “Shane Dawson, crazy stuff going on, do you think he should
be forgiven for what he said and stuff like that?”
James politely responded with QUOTE, “I don’t want to talk about anything in relation
to him.”
But the paparazzi persisted and followed up by asking in general if people should be forgiven
for their old videos.
As you’re probably aware, there has been a number of Shane’s old YouTube videos and
social media clips that have resurfaced recently that include offensive content like using
blackface, saying the N word, and joking about pedophilia.
The photographer asked QUOTE, “I know back in the day, humor was a little bit dark, that
was more accepted, now it's less acceptable.
So do you think people should overlook that, or?”
And here’s what James had to say about it...
“I think it should always be looked at on a case by case basis and make sure that people
are changing actively.
That’s kind of what I’ve always believed in.”
And when James was asked if he’d spoken to Shane, after everything happened, James
simply shook his head saying no.
“You haven’t spoken?”
The photographer also then proceeded to ask James about the drama and Tati’s video,
saying QUOTE “Tati came out with a video and said that, they were trying to uhhh, gang
up against you.”
James respectfully and politely responded, saying QUOTE “I don’t really want to address
anything in regarding to the drama.
I hope you don’t mind.”
And we totally get it, poor James was just waiting for his food truck food and trying
to enjoy his long weekend, when approached with these heavy questions.
We gotta say he handled it like a pro and the photographer then totally respected his
wishes.
But something James was happy to talk about, was whether or not he’d join the Hype House,
which has it’s own set of insane DRAMA.
If you are a fan of James’ you know that he’s hung out with many of the Hype House
members and makes Tik Toks with them all the time, even wearing Hype House merch.
But would he ever join?
So you’ve been spending a lot of time with the Hype House, would you be joining the Hype
House or would you start your own kind of house?
Absolutely not.
I love all the kids so much they’re all really great friends of mine.
But I have my own house and my own things to do so I go over there any party whenever
I want to but definitely will not be living there any time soon.”
Okay, it doesn’t look like James will be joining the Hype House, but fans have been
sharing their thoughts about what he said in the rest of this interview.
One person wrote quote, “this made me stan james even more such a king for not caring
about any of whats going on lol”
Another fan mentioned how respectful James was to the paparazzi writing quote, “He
was also super nice to this guy when he could have told him to f off”
And this person said quote, “He’s smart saying he doesn’t want to talk about anything
related to the drama, good for him standing his ground.”
So it seems like James’ fans are happy he’s staying out of it and hopefully we can all
eventually move on from this scandal someday?
But if you just can’t get enough of it... click right over here for more Clevver News
on what Ryland and Trisha had to say about Tati’s video.
Also, let us know down in the comments what you think of James’ response to all the
drama and if you would’ve liked to see him join the Hype House.
I’m your host, Sussan Mourad, bye guys!