Jeffree Star reveals \u201caggressive mental abuse\u201d from Shane Dawson scandal YouTube: The Sip with Ryland Adams and Lizze GordonYouTuber and makeup mogul Jeffree Star has finally opened up about the drama from this past summer, which kicked off after critics accused he and fellow influencer Shane Dawson of attempting to sabotage beauty guru James Charles. Jeffree Star is a huge name in the influencer world. Starting out as a MySpace icon and music artist, Star later migrated to YouTube, where he cultivated a massive community of fans and even kicked off his own makeup brand. Now, Jeffree Star Cosmetics is a company held in high regard among makeup circles, but recent drama has placed a shadow over the brand\u2019s owner. In summer 2020, controversy sparked regarding Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star after rumors began circulating online that the two had orchestrated the canceling of James Charles in May 2019. This speculation heightened after Tati Westbrook \u2014 a beauty YouTuber behind the \u201cBye Sister\u201d video of viral fame \u2014 accused Star and Dawson of feeding her \u201cpoisonous lies\u201d about Charles, which had purportedly led her to create the 2019 video. The entire scandal was also wrapped up in multiple additional controversies surrounding both Star and Dawson, which even saw the involvement of Jada Pinkett Smith amid the outrage. However, the summer has come and gone, and Star has now opened up about what it was like being at the center of intense internet vitriol. \u201cWhen everything happened this summer, it was just all so\u2026 it was just a lot,\u201d Star explained during an episode of the \u2018The Sip\u2019 podcast with Dawson\u2019s fianc\u00e9, Ryland Adams. \u201cIt was so mentally draining and crazy. It was traumatic.\u201d \u201cI had never experienced that before,\u201d he continued, revealing that he\u2019d even been told to end his own life by critics. \u201cTo continuously hear that over and over and over\u2026 it was so crazy. The new normal became aggressive mental abuse. But I\u2019m not trying to say that for sympathy.\u201d (Topic begins at 17:38) Star\u2019s statement on the drama has been met with mixed reviews, with some feeling that he is \u201crefusing to take accountability,\u201d while others show sympathy toward the YouTuber in wake of the overwhelming negative reactions he received. What\u2019s your take on Star\u2019s story? Let us know on Twitter @DexertoTrending!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jeffree Star reveals \u201caggressive mental abuse\u201d from Shane Dawson scandal YouTube: The Sip with Ryland Adams and Lizze GordonYouTuber and makeup mogul Jeffree Star has finally opened up about the drama from this past summer, which kicked off after critics accused he and fellow influencer Shane Dawson of attempting to sabotage beauty guru James Charles. […]<\/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-51927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51927","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=51927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}