Uh oh, there’s even more drama in the YouTube beauty community. (Does it ever end?) OK, so, remember when Tati Westbrook uploaded the 40-minute ‘Bye Sister’ video slamming James Charles last year? Well, she’s now released another long video, apologising for the whole saga, claiming that she was ‘manipulated’ by Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star who fed her ‘poisonous lies’.
‘He deserves my first apology. I am really sorry, James. And I’ve said that privately but I want you to hear it publicly,’ she said in the video uploaded last night, saying that James wanted to feature in the video, but she was advised that wouldn’t be a good idea.
'On the advice of my attorneys I cannot share with all of you right now the evidence that we have accumulated of the events that have occurred however there will soon come a day where we will be able to present this evidence and you will be able to see why it is we believe that Jeffree and Shane are responsible for so much of the damage that has been caused.
‘I can tell you this it’s now my opinion that Jeffrey and Shane were both bitterly jealous of James Charles’s success. Jeffree resented that so much of his business was centered around his biggest rival and Shane did not like that James Charles wanted to make a documentary.’
She continued: ‘Neither of them were happy with standing in his shadow on YouTube anymore. I believe James Charles was gaining more followers and receiving more views and more press faster than anyone in the history on the platform and it’s also my opinion that Jeffrey and Shane needed James marginalized and out of the way for their November launch of the Conspiracy palette along with Shane’s merch.’
The YouTuber - who has 9.43million subscribers - also claimed that Jeffree is allegedly a co-owner of Morphe Cosmetics.
Tati added: ‘I’ve also recently been informed that Jeffree is allegedly a co-owner of Morphe before the scandal occurred I had also been told that James Charles was about to develop an entire cosmetics line with the owners of Morphe.
'The entire situation opens up a Pandora’s box of speculation but I’m just not sure anyone counted on this drama spreading like wildfire. It’s my opinion that everyone involved got scared and their plan changed multiple times as I refused to play along or engage with the drama over the next several months a year later.’
‘It is now my opinion that James Charles was not their only intended target I believe that there are many different people who have unclean hands in all of this and there was a coordinated plan to keep me quiet and pushed me out of the way for other business reasons,' she said.
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The YouTube star jumped on Instagram Live to share his live reaction to the video as he repeated: ‘I am losing my mind, this is so f**cked. I can’t process this, this is insane.’ Meanwhile, Shane’s fiance Ryland Adams tweeted: ‘Tati Westbrook – a master class in manipulation. The only was to save her reputation was to side with the person she tried to ruin. Make no mistake. This 40 year old woman choose to post a video on her own accord. (sic)
‘She riled up Shane before doing so to have one of the biggest creators backing her in the chance this all backfired. Shane very well WOULD have posted a video exposing James had he felt so inclined. No receipts because she didn’t want to expose the countless times she told Shane that she was a big girl doing this ONLY for herself.’
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