YouTuber Colleen Ballinger blasted for denying grooming allegations with ukulele song

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a 10-minute video Wednesday entitled “hi.” She flippantly took “accountability” for her actions while simultaneously criticizing cancel culture. “Some people are saying things about me that just aren’t true,” she said in a sing-song voice. “Even though my team has strongly advised me not to say what I’m going to say, I realized they never said I couldn’t sing about what I want to say.”Ballinger, who has been on YouTube for more than 15 years, stated that early in her career she “used to message my fans — but not in a creepy way, like a lot of you are trying to suggest.

It was more of a loser kind of way. I was just trying to be besties with everybody.” She admitted that “there were times in DMs when I would overshare,” but said she “changed my behavior and took accountability.”Her statements are in response to accusations by YouTuber Adam McIntyre, 20, who first claimed in a 2020 YouTube video that Ballinger allegedly formed an inappropriate personal friendship with him while he was 13 to 16 years old.He alleged Ballinger sent him lingerie as a joke, gave him access to her social media and exchanged text messages with him for years.This month, McIntyre uploaded another YouTube video, “my relationship with colleen ballinger,” in which he accused her of “grooming” him and other teenagers in the 2010s.The video, which is nearly two hours long, has over 541,000 views.

The Post has contacted reps for Ballinger and McIntyre for comment.“I just wanted to say that the only thing I’ve ever groomed is my two Persian cats,” Ballinger claimed Wednesday. “I’m not a groomer, I’m just a loser who didn’t understand I shouldn’t respond to fans.