Jeffree star allegedly backs down from James Charles beef over fear of being \u201cexposed\u201d Jeffree Star, James Charles – YouTubePopular beauty YouTuber James Charles made the comeback of a lifetime, following damaging allegations brought forward by fellow YouTubers Tati Westbrook and Jeffree Star \u2013 the latter of whom claimed to have \u201creceipts\u201d that would expose Charles for \u201cmass manipulation\u201d of his fanbase. However, Star quickly backed down from his vehement stance against Charles, uploading a YouTube video on May 19 calling for an end to the drama where he apologized to the young beauty guru. \u201cI don\u2019t want to play the games anymore,\u201d Star explained. \u201c\u2026I am not going to fuel this fire bigger so everyone can get more entertainment. Because, behind the scenes, this isn\u2019t funny. These are our real lives.\u201d Despite his explanation, some sources are claiming that Star\u2019s real reasons for stepping away from the drama were over fear of being \u201cexposed\u201d for certain dirt that Charles has on the makeup mogul. Celebrity news outlet Hollywood Life reported that sources close to the matter claimed that Star had pulled out of the scandal for this very reason \u2013 a likely story, given that he suddenly changed his tune on the subject despite calling Charles a \u201cpredator\u201d and a \u201cdanger to society\u201d in now-deleted Tweets. [Timestamp: 1:53 for mobile viewers] Both Star and Tati have since moved away from the subject, with Tati stating that she will no longer make \u201cany further public comments\u201d on the matter following her \u201cdigital break\u201d from social media. James Charles\u2019 comeback came as a major surprise to fans across the net, after Tati had accused the YouTuber of using his fame to \u201cmanipulate\u201d the sexuality of straight men and promoting her direct competitor, \u2018SugarBearHear,\u2019 without proper warning \u2013 despite their former status as close friends. Charles later debunked each and every claim Tati had made in a following video, where he used screenshots of texts as proof of his counterpoints, and even addressed allegations made by Star, in the process. Although he lost nearly 3 million subscribers in wake of the debacle, Charles has since managed to regain his 15 million subscriber milestone following the release of his \u201cNo More Lies\u201d video, despite doubts that he would ever recover from the drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jeffree star allegedly backs down from James Charles beef over fear of being \u201cexposed\u201d Jeffree Star, James Charles – YouTubePopular beauty YouTuber James Charles made the comeback of a lifetime, following damaging allegations brought forward by fellow YouTubers Tati Westbrook and Jeffree Star \u2013 the latter of whom claimed to have \u201creceipts\u201d that would expose […]<\/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-51885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51885","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=51885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}