Ninja denies drug addiction rumors that were sparked by \u201chorrible\u201d viral photo Twitch: NinjaTyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has moved to deny claims he has a raging drug addiction, months after an on-stream image of the Twitch star looking \u201cseverely underweight\u201d spread online like wildfire and sparked the rumors. On January 26, this publication ran an article on Ninja talking about parenting. While the story was as interesting as ever, the gaming world locked onto something else \u2014 the article\u2019s top image, revealing the Twitch star\u2019s most recent look. The internet immediately pointed in one direction: drug addiction. At the time, Ninja\u2019s cheeks looked relatively gaunt, his iconic blue hair looks a silvery grey in videos uploaded during that month, and it was a far cry from how the Fortnite icon looked in years past, but a reasonable explanation likely lay behind the star\u2019s shock on-stream transformation. Sure enough, it did: Ninja has come out shooting against those addiction rumors, revealing he was battling a \u201cnasty\u201d health condition that led to his gaunt look. Ninja addressed the addiction claims during a recent Twitch stream, making it very clear to his loyal fandom that he had never been involved in substance abuse during his long and fruitful streaming career. \u201cThat was a crazy, negative thing in my life,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople thought that I was addicted to crack. There were all these crazy rumors going around, \u2018Ninja\u2019s on meth!\u2019 and that kind of thing, people were saying,\u201d the star continued. \u201cIt made going on [social media] really pretty horrible.\u201d Now Ninja has moved to quash the rumors completely. The streamer revealed it wasn\u2019t actually anything drug-related, but instead was related to a bad bout of canker-sores that he was dealing with at the time. The mouth ulcers made anything food-related \u201cawful\u201d for the Twitch superstar, he explained, to the extent that he was barely eating. \u201cFor three weeks straight I had these cankers in my mouth, and they were bad. I couldn\u2019t eat it hurt so much,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I was just eating to not be hungry. That led to me severely undereating \u2018cause it just hurt too much.\u201d The Twitch star couldn\u2019t help but add a joke too: \u201cIt\u2019s the canker-sore diet! Easy to not eat when you\u2019re just in searing pain whenever it happens.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time this week that Ninja has stepped up to the plate to defend himself either. On October 19, the star hit back at claims he used his Mixer defection to \u201ccash out\u201d of the streaming life. The claims suggested he was phoning it in on Mixer. According to Ninja, that is the furthest thing from the truth: \u201cI was streaming double the hours I was supposed to. It was like a 150-hour requirement, I think, for a month and I was doing 300, easy. I wanted to win. It wasn\u2019t like I signed this big deal and cashed out, I was streaming double my requirements. \u201cFor six months straight I stuck to that,\u201d the former king of Twitch continued, \u201cand yet [Mixer] still didn\u2019t work out. But don\u2019t say it wasn\u2019t for a lack of want.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja denies drug addiction rumors that were sparked by \u201chorrible\u201d viral photo Twitch: NinjaTyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has moved to deny claims he has a raging drug addiction, months after an on-stream image of the Twitch star looking \u201cseverely underweight\u201d spread online like wildfire and sparked the rumors. On January 26, this publication ran an article […]<\/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-56550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56550","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=56550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}