James Charles denies allegations of \u201cgrooming\u201d 16-year-old fan James Charles\/YouTubeSocial media star James Charles has released a statement denying the allegations that he \u201cgroomed\u201d a minor, rumors that had been going around after a TikTok posted by a 16-year-old fan. On February 26, a James Charles fan posted TikTok video claiming that on Feb. 17, he had started talking with the influencer on Snapchat. In the video, which is currently unavailable on the video platform, he posted supposed screenshots of his Snapchat history with Charles, and claimed that soon he started to feel \u201cuncomfortable\u201d based on the direction their conversation was headed. https:\/\/twitter.com\/defnoodles\/status\/1365382812778393607?s=20 The 16-year-old went on to claim that after he refused Charles\u2019 request to send more explicit pictures, the influencer kept asking anyway. \u201cHe started making the conversation very sexual, and it made me really uncomfortable,\u201d he said before showing the screenshots. \u201cI was getting really uncomfortable so I told him my age, I told him I\u2019m 16. Meanwhile, he\u2019s 21, he\u2019s a grown man.\u201d Just a few hours after the videos were posted, James released a statement on Twitter in which he denied \u201cgrooming\u201d anyone and gave his side of the story. \u201cThe accusation that I have groomed this person is completely false. Last week, I came across someone on my Instagram explore page, saw he followed me, and added him on Snapchat,\u201d Charles said. \u201cI asked how old he was right away and he told me he was 18 so I started flirting back. In the excitement of meeting someone I thought could be potentially great, I didn\u2019t ask for a copy of his ID or passport.\u201d The 21-year-old added that he unfriended the fan making the accusations after he found out his actual age of 16, and that they hadn\u2019t spoken since then. \u201cI\u2019m not victim-blaming him or victimizing myself either, simply sharing what happened, and what happened was not okay,\u201d James wrote. \u201cBecause of situations like this, instead of taking someone\u2019s word for it, I now will ask to see the ID or passport of every guy I have a conversation with.\u201d It remains to be seen if anything more will happen in this situation, but we\u2019ll keep you updated on any further developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James Charles denies allegations of \u201cgrooming\u201d 16-year-old fan James Charles\/YouTubeSocial media star James Charles has released a statement denying the allegations that he \u201cgroomed\u201d a minor, rumors that had been going around after a TikTok posted by a 16-year-old fan. On February 26, a James Charles fan posted TikTok video claiming that on Feb. 17, […]<\/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-51759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51759","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=51759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}