JoJo Siwa and Colleen Ballinger Kevin Winter/Getty Pictures; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
JoJo Siwa is standing by Colleen Ballinger by means of grooming allegations.
Whereas showing on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast on Wednesday, September 13, Howie Mandel kicked off the dialog by asking Siwa if she’s nonetheless buddies with Ballinger.
“Yeah,” she replied. “I’ve identified Colleen since I used to be 12. She’s at all times been nothing however type to me … The web can take a lie and run to date with it that it’s to the purpose the place you simply can’t do something about it.”
Siwa added that she is aware of Ballinger “very, very effectively.”
Colleen Ballinger and JoJo Siwa attend JoJo Siwa’s fifteenth Birthday Get together Jerritt Clark/Getty Pictures
“I feel the work that Colleen has finished for the web is unbelievable,” Siwa continued. “Miranda Sings, her character, is a comic, and I feel that it’s very onerous to be a personality the place persons are additionally taking a look at you as you’re an actual human behind that character. Being a comic could be very onerous since you have been in a position to do issues years in the past that have been OK, and now that we’ve grown and matured we’ve realized they’re not OK.”
Siwa defended her pal, “The issue is the web was in a position to capitalize off her cancellation. And it’s not OK and a variety of it’s based mostly off of lies.”
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Ballinger was accused of grooming her younger followers in June when a YouTuber KodeeRants posted alleged screenshots between her and a gaggle of followers. Ballinger allegedly requested the followers what their “favourite place” was, what their ideas have been once they “first bought their intervals” and if one was “a virgin.”
On the time, Ballinger made a YouTube video responding to the claims in a “Poisonous Gossip Practice” tune. Within the social media clip, she defined that “some persons are saying issues about me that simply aren’t true.” She then started strumming the ukulele and singing that she needed to “be besties with everyone” however “didn’t perceive that possibly there must be some boundaries there.”
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Ballinger added that she won’t be “admitting to lies and rumors that you just made up for clout.”
She additionally shared that she has already taken “accountability” for her actions in 2020, when content material creator Adam McIntyre claimed she had “an inappropriate private friendship with him between the ages of 13 and 16,” and even despatched him lingerie “as a joke.”
After his accusations, she stated through social media, “I see how fully silly of me, I ought to have by no means despatched [the lingerie]. “I don’t know what a part of my mind was lacking on the time that I believed, ‘Oh this can be a regular, foolish factor to do.’”
Since June, Ballinger has stayed out of the highlight and has not posted something on her social media accounts.
