Jeff Wittek \u201cblackmailer\u201d denies $40k ransom for David Dobrik accident footage Jeff Wittek YouTubeYouTuber Jeff Wittek claims he\u2019s being blackmailed to the tune of $40,000 to conceal footage of a stunt for David Dobrik\u2019s Vlog Squad that turned into a near-fatal encounter. The accused, a \u2018family friend\u2019 who was at the scene, has allegedly denied blackmailing Wittek. A 2020 stunt involving a tractor, operated by Dobrik at the time, fractured Wittek\u2019s skull and lacerated his face. About a year later, Wittek is now telling that story as a part of his \u2018How I Broke my Face\u2019 series. However, after publishing the second part on YouTube, he told Drama Alert that he needed to push out the video because he was getting blackmailed for the footage and didn\u2019t want his \u201clife-altering story\u201d controlled by other people. Among the group of vloggers, there was a family friend who also took a video and was asking for $40,000, according to Drama Alert. Around that time, screenshots were making the rounds, apparently showing a conversation on Instagram between someone named Wendy Pope and a buyer interested in the footage. In the conversation, Wendy is seen saying \u201cI\u2019d sell it now. Insider is interested,\u201d in reference to the Wittek footage. Insider reporters deny that claim. Soon after, accounts on Reddit and Twitter apparently belonging to Wendy Pope, going by winniepope, denied blackmailing Wittek and revealed more of what happened on her side of the story. \u201cI think it would be the right thing for Jeff to tell the truth that we never blackmailed him,\u201d according to WinniePope\u2019s Reddit post. \u201cHe was upset which is understandable, he wants to be the one to tell his story. He wasn\u2019t ready yet to talk about his accident.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/defnoodles\/status\/1386782950444847105 In Wittek\u2019s How I Broke My Face | Ep 2, he described how he came to grips with doing the stunt over 1ft deep lake. The video released on the accident had the worst parts cut out for obvious reasons. It\u2019s unclear if Wendy told the YouTuber she wouldn\u2019t sell the video to someone else, but she maintains that she isn\u2019t blackmailing Wittek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jeff Wittek \u201cblackmailer\u201d denies $40k ransom for David Dobrik accident footage Jeff Wittek YouTubeYouTuber Jeff Wittek claims he\u2019s being blackmailed to the tune of $40,000 to conceal footage of a stunt for David Dobrik\u2019s Vlog Squad that turned into a near-fatal encounter. The accused, a \u2018family friend\u2019 who was at the scene, has allegedly denied […]<\/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-51862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51862","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=51862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}