Valkyrae is seeing therapist over RFLCT drama: \u201cI\u2019m in a terrible place\u201d YouTube: ValkyraeRachell \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter has been visiting a therapist over trauma and \u201cmental damage\u201d sparked from her RFLCT skincare controversy, the 100 Thieves co-owner revealed in her return to YouTube streaming on November 2, which she nearly couldn\u2019t do. The whole RFLCT saga, from the launch backlash to ongoing questions about Valkyrae\u2019s integrity and character have taken their toll on the YouTuber. On October 19, stream-queen Valkyrae lifted the lid on her long-hyped two-year project: RFLCT, a skincare brand designed to \u201cprotect gamers from blue light glare.\u201d Only, the online world wasn\u2019t as excited \u2014 the product came under fire immediately, with many dubbing it a \u201csnake oil\u201d scam. Valkyrae went dark \u2014 outside one \u201ctell-all\u201d stream she now regrets \u2014 and RFLCT\u2019s powerbrokers stuck to their guns for nearly two weeks. In the end, however, the skincare brand eventually shut its doors on October 29. Now, a fortnight after the whole affair, Hofstetter has returned to streaming and since revealed to her YouTube fans just how badly the controversy affected her. The biggest fallout for Valkyrae, she revealed in her November 2 return, was struggling with \u201ctrauma.\u201d The 100 Thieves owner feared, for a time, that her career was all but over, and her image damaged beyond repair. She admitted: \u201cI\u2019m going to therapy\u2026 I\u2019ve got a lot of trauma. \u201c[After the RFLCT controversy], I became very depressed. I have depression,\u201d the star continued. \u201cI\u2019ve really been having a bad time\u2026 I do think I have mental damage from all of this, for sure. I got very lucky in that there wasn\u2019t a lawsuit [for the break] or anything, but I\u2019m still in a terrible mental place. \u201cI know it\u2019s only been two weeks and it will get better\u2026 but it was a big mistake, and it\u2019s really left me in a terrible place. I have to give myself time.\u201d Related segment begins at 17:14 in Valkyrae\u2019s stream below. Valkyrae also confirmed that RFLCT had shut its doors on October 30, as reported by Dexerto at the time. According to the 100 Thieves owner, the skincare brand has \u201cstarted to pull their products out of more than 400 stores.\u201d The biggest victory for Valkyrae, she revealed, was that it was a \u201cclean break,\u201d with her lawyers and RFLCT management setting on a split rather than a lawsuit. \u201cI\u2019m not perfect,\u201d she admitted, \u201cand I\u2019ve made a lot of mistakes. I was incredibly naive [to get involved with RFLCT], and it\u2019s been a big learning lesson. I\u2019m going to be more careful with everything moving on now, that\u2019s for sure. I\u2019m naive, impulsive, and too trusting. Toast told me the last one. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy figuring out just how dumb and naive you are, how naive you can be,\u201d she added. \u201cI can\u2019t trust myself anymore. I just can\u2019t do that anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valkyrae is seeing therapist over RFLCT drama: \u201cI\u2019m in a terrible place\u201d YouTube: ValkyraeRachell \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter has been visiting a therapist over trauma and \u201cmental damage\u201d sparked from her RFLCT skincare controversy, the 100 Thieves co-owner revealed in her return to YouTube streaming on November 2, which she nearly couldn\u2019t do. The whole RFLCT saga, […]<\/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-63344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63344","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=63344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}