![]() ![]() Star continued to smear Charles’ name even a year later in 2020, claiming on a podcast that he has a voice memo from an alleged victim of Charles explaining his story. Many believed that he recanted the story because of a possible cease-and-desist from Charles and his lawyers.Īnother beauty guru, Jeffree Star (controversial in his own right), came forward after Westbrook’s video and said that Charles had been banned from his home for being a predator. However, fans were not convinced by this admission, as Cooke honestly looks scared in the video. Later, Cooke came out and admitted that everything was a lie, and that he felt pressured by his friends and family to make a video villainizing James Charles. One of the many incidents that Westbrook discusses involves a waiter named Sam Cooke and how Charles made inappropriate advances on him at Westbrook’s birthday dinner.Īfter this video, Cooke initially came forward backing Westbrook’s story, saying that Charles forced him, a 19-year-old straight man, into uncomfortable sexual situations. This event, and betrayal, made Westbrook reconsider her friendship with Charles, and look at past events in a new light. In “Bye Sister,” Westbrook discusses how Charles posted an ad during Coachella for Sugar Bear Hair, the direct competitor to her hair vitamin brand, Halo Beauty. This scandal stands out more now in 2021, as James Charles could very well have a real mugshot in the coming months for his alleged crimes.īut first, we have to backtrack to Summer of 2019, when fellow beauty guru Tati Westbrook, close friend and mentor of James Charles, uploaded a now-deleted video titled “Bye Sister,”, launching the wave of cancellations and callouts that would come to be known as “Drammageddon 2.” Charles reacted to the controversy by tweeting “only I could lazily smudge on some purple eyeshadow and fake blood to recreate a dumb tik tok trend and have it twisted into an actual scandal lol.” His response shows how Charles seems to view getting ‘canceled’ as something to laugh about. In many of the TikToks, the creators created a story for the mugshot, but when Charles posted his now-deleted version to Instagram, he simply said nothing.įans reacted negatively to the post, claiming that it trivialized domestic abuse. In April 2020, across TikTok and Twitter, influencers and audiences alike were applying makeup and posing for fake mugshots. The final scandal unrelated to grooming is ironic, as it involves Charles pretending to pose for a mugshot. ![]() The next scandal Charles faced was in 2019 when he made a comment in a video about how he wasn’t “fully gay” since “there’s also been trans guys in the past, too, that was really, really into for a moment in time.”Ĭharles faced backlash from the LGBTQ+ community for the transphobic remark, and he issued an apology to Twitter claiming he should have chosen his words better. ![]() After his plane landed in South Africa, he issued a notes app apology where he acknowledged his privilege as a white male. Rightfully so, fans called out Charles for the racist joke. In 2017, Charles posted a now-deleted tweet that reads, “‘I can’t believe we’re going to Africa today omg what if we get Ebola?’ ‘James we’re fine we could’ve gotten it at chipotle last year.’” Even from the beginning, apart from the ring light debacle, controversy followed him. Soon after, Charles became the young darling of the YouTube beauty community, and today has around 25 million subscribers on YouTube. It was later revealed that Charles had edited the pictures, and that a ring light was not the cause of the highlight, as he had originally claimed. And yes, you read that right, several.Ĭharles rose to fame in 2016, after his high school senior photos went viral for his stellar makeup and bright highlight. In 2021, YouTube will seemingly never know peace, and it’s time for beauty community superstar James Charles to face the music for allegedly grooming and sexually harassing several young boys and men. ![]() TW: This article contains mentions of sexual harassment, pedophilia, and grooming. ![]()
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