James Charles addresses allegations of sexual harassment from Coachella date James Charles, Instagram \/ Gage Gomez, YouTubeJames Charles has responded to claims of sexual harassment from male model Gage Gomez, who was seen holding hands with the YouTuber at the 2019 Coachella music festival \u2013 spurring an onslaught of questions from fans. Charles posted a lengthy message to Twitter on May 4, where he addressed claims of sexual harassment as alleged by his Coachella date, male model Gage Gomez. According to Charles, he and Gomez had talked for five months before his trip to the 2019 Coachella music festival, where the two \u201cheld hands\u201d and \u201cslept in the same bed.\u201d However, Charles vehemently denied any claims of pressuring Gomez into sexually compromising situations \u2013 a claim that Gomez made in a video on the topic prior to Charles\u2019 Tweet. \u201cI told James I wasn\u2019t interested in any of that,\u201d Gomez said of Charles\u2019 purported advances in the video. \u201c\u2026he was aware of how I felt about him, and basically still pursued this action.\u201d Gomez claimed that he was \u201cblocked and unblocked\u201d by Charles multiple times on social media throughout the duration of their relationship, alleging that James had gotten upset when he initially denied his invitation to Coachella. Gomez went on to claim that he\u2019d made it clear that he wasn\u2019t interested in experimenting with his sexuality, which had allegedly upset Charles and his friends, who\u2019d decided that Gage was \u201cusing\u201d Charles for clout points. 500https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CoQoaiGt-3gOf course, this isn\u2019t the end of the drama, by far; purported texts have since leaked between the two, which show Charles accusing Gomez of \u201cfaking\u201d his sexuality for a chance at internet fame and a \u201cfree Coachella ticket.\u201d This wouldn\u2019t be the first time Charles has Tweeted about Gomez, either \u2013 Charles even referred to Gomez as a \u201ccon-artist\u201d in a now-deleted post, a claim that Gomez himself addressed in yet another video prior to the harassment scandal. Drama between the couple surfaced after the two were seen holding hands at Coachella, who questioned the YouTuber about his \u201cnew relationship,\u201d prompting the aforementioned Tweet by Charles who even stated that Gomez had played him \u201cfor months on end.\u201d Gomez has yet to respond to Charles\u2019 statement responding to his harassment allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James Charles addresses allegations of sexual harassment from Coachella date James Charles, Instagram \/ Gage Gomez, YouTubeJames Charles has responded to claims of sexual harassment from male model Gage Gomez, who was seen holding hands with the YouTuber at the 2019 Coachella music festival \u2013 spurring an onslaught of questions from fans. Charles posted a […]<\/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-51741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51741","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=51741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}