YouTube star Colleen Ballinger, creator of sketch character Miranda Sings, has responded to allegations that she groomed fellow YouTuber Adam McIntyre when he was an adolescent.
In a YouTube video posted on Wednesday, Ballinger mentioned, “Regardless that my group has strongly suggested me to not say what I need to say, I noticed they didn’t say I could not sing what I need to say.”
She then strummed a ukulele for 10 minutes and sang about how the claims in opposition to her are gossip and lies, together with saying, “The one factor I’ve ever groomed is my two Persian cats.” The video has already amassed greater than 2.5 million views.
Los Angeles-based Metro Public Relations labored with the YouTuber as lately as 2018, serving to guide an look on Dwell with Kelly and Mark to debate her being pregnant. Ballinger is represented by expertise company The Gersh Company.
Metro Public Relations and The Gersh Company didn’t instantly return PRWeek’s requests for remark.
Ballinger’s latest controversies have price her model partnerships with skincare firm OneSkin, telemedicine model Zocdoc, ladies’s multivitamin firm Ritual and meals supply platform HelloFresh.
McIntrye issued a response to Ballinger on social media, stating her response video showcased “precisely the kind of evil girl she is.”
as a lot as colleen discredited & made enjoyable of me, im glad her video did ONE factor, present you all EXACTLY the kind of evil girl she is, that plenty of us have skilled over the previous few years behind the scenes, the masks has slipped…everybody meet the REAL colleen ballinger.
— adam mcintyre (@theadammcintyre) June 28, 2023
Ballinger’s response has drawn widespread criticism and mockery on Twitter.
colleen ballinger after her pr group informed her to not converse on the controversy: pic.twitter.com/gl45pElsOx
— markie (runway mama) (@MOAMETALIZM) June 28, 2023
“The one factor i’ve ever groomed is my two persian cats” as a response to grooming allegations is madness #colleenballinger pic.twitter.com/vdpWE5BOM5
— Depressedsocials (@Depressedsocia) June 29, 2023
