Addison Rae hits back at claims of \u201cdropping\u201d friends after TikTok fame Instagram: Addison RaeAddison Rae has defended herself after critics claimed she \u201cdropped\u201d old friends after getting a taste of fame online, saying she still keeps in touch with friends from high school and college, even being a bridesmaid at a friend\u2019s wedding. Addison Rae has blown up over the last year. She has almost 60 million followers on TikTok, the platform she went viral on 12 months ago. It turned her life upside down \u2014 from being a college student to an online celebrity. The 19-year-old has been in the public eye since then, which has come with its fair share of criticism. However, people are now attacking the TikTok star for \u201cdropping\u201d friends from her \u2018past life\u2019 in college and high school after hitting fame. After a TikTok of one of Addison\u2019s high school friends, @gracieahart, went viral, critics slammed Rae for not interacting with her old acquaintances. However, she hit back, saying that she still tries to hang out with them as much as possible. \u201cSaying I changed and dropped old friends knowing nothing, I flew my best friend from high school to Los Angeles this year,\u201d Rae stated. Hart backed up Addison, who said the two still talk whenever they can. \u201cWe actually do talk when we get the chance, she\u2019s obviously a very busy person.\u201d Rae also added onto her first statement, saying that she actually had more \u2018friends\u2019 from high school reach out to her after she moved to LA after becoming one of TikTok\u2019s most popular creators. \u201cOnce you graduate high school and move away to college, life changes. When I moved to college, no one from high school reached out to me. When I moved to LA though, everyone started to. Weird.\u201d View this post on Instagram She stated that moving away for college also played a huge factor in her friendship circles changing. \u201cI moved from where she lived to go to college four hours away, you tell me if you hang out with everyone from high school.\u201d The response has been well received by fans. After all, things do change over time \u2014 regardless of fame. However, Addison has seemingly made an effort to stay true to her roots, and still stay in touch with her childhood friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Addison Rae hits back at claims of \u201cdropping\u201d friends after TikTok fame Instagram: Addison RaeAddison Rae has defended herself after critics claimed she \u201cdropped\u201d old friends after getting a taste of fame online, saying she still keeps in touch with friends from high school and college, even being a bridesmaid at a friend\u2019s wedding. Addison […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}