{"id":23802,"date":"2019-05-16T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1042156"},"modified":"2019-05-16T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T22:25:00","slug":"tati-westbrook-calls-for-an-end-to-the-abuse-against-james-charles-as-she-takes-a-break-from-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/tati-westbrook-calls-for-an-end-to-the-abuse-against-james-charles-as-she-takes-a-break-from-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Tati Westbrook Calls for an End to the &#8221;Abuse&#8221; Against James Charles as She Takes a Break From YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.816098081023\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20.126865671642\">\n<p><strong>Tati Westbrook<\/strong>&nbsp;is ready to press pause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1040553\/breaking-down-the-wild-feud-between-youtube-stars-james-charles-and-tati-westbrook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on her public feud<\/a> with&nbsp;<strong>James Charles<\/strong>&#8230; for now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week after the YouTube star captivated the internet with a 43-minute takedown video of the 19-year-old beauty guru, she&#8217;s clarifying her intentions in a new video titled &#8220;Why I Did It.&#8221; The 18-minute clip delves into Tati&#8217;s perspective on the continued drama between her and James, why she never thought the scandal would reach &#8220;this magnitude&#8221; and her future as a YouTuber.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dive in, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>Tati makes an emotional plea to her 10 million subscribers, telling the camera, &#8220;I do want the hate to stop. I want the picking sides and the abusive memes and the language, and all of that&#8230; I really hope on both sides it can stop. That&#8217;s not why I made the video.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Tati says she did so as a &#8220;last ditch effort to be really loud and vocal&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041061\/inside-james-charles-trailblazing-rise-to-youtube-superstardom-and-the-endless-controversies-that-just-may-be-his-downfall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reaching out to James<\/a>, who she&#8217;s mentored since the early days of his career.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;It was me trying to reach someone that was completely unreachable,&#8221; she then explains. &#8220;It&#8217;s about someone who reaches, across all platforms, 30 million people that are predominantly children. He is losing the ability to get honest more and more each day. I&#8217;m losing the ability to reach [out to him].&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>The Halo Beauty founder then criticizes James, saying he had &#8220;zero respect&#8221; for their friendship and isn&#8217;t hopeful that they can one day mend the bridges burnt by his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Tati\u2014who also says she attempted to meet with James face-to-face\u2014says in the video, &#8220;I don&#8217;t hate James Charles. I don&#8217;t want you guys hating on him&#8230;&nbsp;It&#8217;s painful to watch someone that you have cared for be dragged and to know that this started because of me. I don&#8217;t think anyone deserves that. I think people deserve a wake-up call and people deserve to be called out for actions. I think someone&#8217;s got to do it. I hope that this inspires parents to have more conversations with their kids, because we are losing that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t say this enough,&#8221; she later adds, I love James Charles. I loved him from the moment I met him. He was like this underdog kid that everyone took a s&#8211;t on. That&#8217;s how I felt for a long time. So I felt like I needed to help him somehow, like I needed to help him because it was helping me. I know a lot of people aren&#8217;t going to understand, or they think this is fake, or that they think that there was this big agenda or anything. There&#8217;s not.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I could give all of the new success back, and the new subscribers back, I would,&#8221; Tati explains.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019415\/rs_634x1024-190515085329-634-james-charles.cm.51519.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"James Charles\" alt=\"James Charles\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">BACKGRID<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20\">\n<p>&nbsp;The 37-year-old&nbsp;goes on to confirm that she is indeed taking a break from filming new YouTube videos so she can focus on &#8220;healing&#8221; from the feud.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As she puts it, &#8220;I am taking a time-out and just needing to not be on social media because it&#8217;s a really dark place for me right now and I need to figure out what my next move is spiritually for me, and what this means to me, because if it&#8217;s all about money I don&#8217;t want to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, yes, I am hurting, but so is James and so is our community and a huge audience and I guess I just pray that we can all just be kind with each other through this.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to take a time-out and I&#8217;m going to come back and I&#8217;m going to continue to play with make-up because it makes me the happiest and I promise you, I am going to hold myself to an even higher standard because this is forcing me to really look at what really matters, and is working so much really worth it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-8\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"48.857142857143\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.408163265306\">\n<p>&#8220;And is doing all of this at such a speed really worth it? And so, there&#8217;s just a lot changing and I am so grateful for this whole journey because it&#8217;s made me a better person, and I owe that to YouTube and I owe that to you guys,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>In the days after Tati&#8217;s initial video went viral, James <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1040696\/james-charles-loses-1-million-subscribers-amid-tati-westbrook-feud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost more than 3 million YouTube subscribers<\/a> as well as celebrity social media followers like&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kylie_jenner\">Kylie Jenner<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/shawn_mendes\">Shawn Mendes<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/miley_cyrus\">Miley Cyrus<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>James <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1040696\/james-charles-loses-1-million-subscribers-amid-tati-westbrook-feud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued a public apology<\/a> to Tati in his own video, in which he also addressed several allegations involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041676\/are-youtube-stars-divided-over-james-charles-and-tati-westbrook-s-feud-we-investigate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">him&nbsp;sexually manipulating men<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-9\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been involved in a lot of very strange and unique situations that have left people confused or upset. I learned the hard way about ways that I can interact with the boys that I&#8217;m entrusted in, and ones that I should or shouldn&#8217;t be talking to&#8230; Tati really was one of the people to sit me down and tell me how it looked from the outside. She let me know, &#8216;Hey, talking to these boys might get you in trouble one day.&#8217; And she was right,&#8221; the teen confessed at the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For now, James continues to keep a low-profile since returning from a tour in Australia and has yet to respond to Tati&#8217;s latest remarks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the entire video above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1042156\/tati-westbrook-calls-for-an-end-to-the-abuse-against-james-charles-as-she-takes-a-break-from-youtube?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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