Disgraced beauty mogul Jeffree Star resurfaced on YouTube after weeks of silence following that Tati Westbrook shitstorm.
ICYMI: Tati recently dropped a video where she claimed that Star and Shane Dawson were “bitterly jealous of James [Charles’] success” and basically coerced her into taking him down.
In Star’s response, titled “Doing What’s Right”, he didn’t mention Westbrook by name, but he apologised to James Charles and revealed that he remains close with Dawson, who has yet to return to the internet.
“I’ve been silent for a very long time, and I know that’s very rare for me,” Jeffree said. “I’ve taken a lot of time to do a lot of self-reflection. Now in the past, I have been guilty of speaking out of anger, out of frustration, out of my emotions.
“I would personally like to apologise to James Charles for the words that I’ve said and for my actions,” he continued. “If I was really close with someone, I should have had the ability to simply call them and ask and say, ‘Hey these are the things that are being said to me.’”
He added, “Instead, I didn’t. I let people really gas me up and get me going behind the scenes and I really fell for a lot of things, and I got really caught up in the hype.”
Jeffree went on to talk about issues that a lot of people found confusing and problematic. He brought up the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain and Black trans women.
Jeffree used it as a way to “escape accountability,” one fan said on Twitter. “BLM is not a prop for you to use in order to clear your record.”
His comments have (understandably) been met with heavy backlash.
https://twitter.com/dangelno/status/1284663846570020864
Jeffree Star really just used BLM to divert attention from his bad behavior, supported Shane Dawson, and plugged his make up line in an apology….? I hate it here. pic.twitter.com/claboR5hXp
— mangoapricot (@mangoapricot0) July 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/kimjongination/status/1284650936053497857
the way jeffree star was silent on blm for the past month and a half and he has the audacity to use breonna taylor to distract the fact he’s a racist wow
— Jeremiah🐈⬛ (@jayycordeiroo) July 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/taelvrz/status/1284639676016599041
