{"id":268783,"date":"2019-03-05T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1021052"},"modified":"2019-03-05T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:28:00","slug":"vanderpump-rules-star-james-kennedy-sounds-off-on-cocaine-use-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/vanderpump-rules-star-james-kennedy-sounds-off-on-cocaine-use-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanderpump Rules Star James Kennedy Sounds Off on Cocaine Use Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.879759519038\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018922\/rs_634x1024-181022163326-634-james-kennedy-mv-102218.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"James Kennedy\" alt=\"James Kennedy\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Tommaso Boddi\/Getty Images for sbe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28.566978193146\">\n<p><strong>James Kennedy<\/strong> is setting the record straight about serious allegations made against him.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the reality TV star were shocked to see a video of what looked like Kennedy using cocaine. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BunFtcolwVo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RBF Podcast<\/a> took to Instagram to share the footage and insinuated the <em>Vanderpump Rules<\/em> star was the person featured in the clip.<\/p>\n<p>However, the DJ is making it clear that these allegations are completely false.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THIS IS NOT ME,&#8221; he commented on the social media account&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p>Fans also came to his defense, writing, &#8220;It&#8217;s not him. It&#8217;s a video on YouTube from last year, and wasn&#8217;t James.&#8221; Another user chimed in, &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen this before. It&#8217;s an old video. I don&#8217;t think it ended up being him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not long after the reality TV personality set the record straight, the podcast apologized for implying he was using drugs and have since deleted the post.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BupcU1PlFcv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram account claimed<\/a> that fellow <em>Pump Rules<\/em> co-star, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jax_taylor\">Jax Taylor<\/a><\/strong>, is the one who sent the video to them.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>This is what we call a telenovela plot twist!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.478672985782\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"13.791469194313\">\n<p>&#8220;We got jax&#8217;d this afternoon,&#8221; the RBF Podcast captioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BupcU1PlFcv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their post<\/a> with a still of Jax from the Bravo reality show. &#8220;Shoutout to @itsjameskennedy &amp; sorry we believed anything @mrjaxtaylor would tell us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The podcast continued, &#8220;He lead me to believe that video was real then deleted his comments! @stassischroeder now I can officially say I&#8217;ve been JAXED also.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the reality TV series know James hasn&#8217;t had the best year. Not only did <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lisa_vanderpump\">Lisa Vanderpump<\/a><\/strong> fire him from SUR, which meant there would be no more See You Next Tuesday&#8217;s, but the group has kept their distant from him after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/996613\/the-ladies-of-vanderpump-rules-are-not-happy-with-james-kennedy-s-behavior-and-make-it-known\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he made degrading comments<\/a> to <strong>Katie Maloney<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>(E! and Bravo are part of the NBCUniversal family)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1021052\/vanderpump-rules-star-james-kennedy-sounds-off-on-cocaine-use-allegations?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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The RBF Podcast took to Instagram to share the footage and insinuated the Vanderpump Rules star was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-15 11:41:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}