Natalie Mariduena defends David Dobrik as \u201ca good person\u201d after sexual assault scandal Instagram: David Dobrike, Natalie NoelNatalie Mariduena defended YouTuber David Dobrik during an appearance on the BFFs podcast, when asked about accusations of Dobrik\u2019s involvement in sexual assault allegations made against Dominykas Zeglaitis, aka Durte Dom. Mariduena holds close ties with Dobrik having grown up together and takes a leadership role within his company. She was asked about the accusations very early on in her appearance in the interview that was published on July 22. Mariduena still describes Dobrik as her \u201cbestie\u201d said she\u2019s \u201cprobably the closest person to David\u201d and \u201cknow him the best out of anybody.\u201d She described the allegations as \u201creally sh**ty\u201d and said, \u201cit sucks when you see someone who\u2019s actually a good person getting accused of really terrible things.\u201d When asked if she \u201cstood behind him 100%,\u201d she replied immediately saying \u201cyeah he\u2019s my best friend.\u201d Later in the podcast, she described him as \u201cjust a normal average dude.\u201d Topic starts at 25:15 In the episode, she continued to defend Dobrik saying \u201ceven the shit that went down, it was really about another dude. Another guy did something and David just happened to be there\u201d. When asked about whether it was hard on her, she replied, \u201cof course, anyone who goes through something like that. It\u2019s extremely difficult and there are millions of people saying terrible things about you.\u201d The David Dobrik scandal explained In March 2021, Insider reported that rape allegations had been made by a woman known as \u201cHannah\u201d during the filming of a Vlog Squad video. Dobrik was the leader of the group of content creators on YouTube with the accusations made against former member Dominykas Zeglaitis. The allegations also included accusations that the girl \u201cHannah\u201d and her friends were supplied alcohol with \u201cHannah\u201d despite being under the legal drinking age of 21. \u201cHannah\u201d said she became intoxicated as a result. \u201cHannah\u201d also alleged that there was \u201can environment where it felt like saying \u2018no\u2019 was not okay\u201d and alleged that other Vlog Squad members listened outside while \u201cHannah\u201d and Zeglaitis reportedly had sex. As a result, Dobrik lost 400,000 subscribers, 78,000 followers on Instagram, and over 2.3 million YouTube views. His YouTube account was eventually demonetized and lost sponsorship. Since then, Dobrik has attempted to make a comeback though not all fans are happy with one person confronting the YouTuber and Natalie in a video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Natalie Mariduena defends David Dobrik as \u201ca good person\u201d after sexual assault scandal Instagram: David Dobrike, Natalie NoelNatalie Mariduena defended YouTuber David Dobrik during an appearance on the BFFs podcast, when asked about accusations of Dobrik\u2019s involvement in sexual assault allegations made against Dominykas Zeglaitis, aka Durte Dom. Mariduena holds close ties with Dobrik having […]<\/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-56114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56114","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=56114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}