YouTube beauty vlogger James Charles doesn't
have a reputation for feuding with celebrities
outside of the YouTube world, so it was a
bit of a shock when he revealed the rudest
star he'd ever met.
Spoiler alert: Ariana Grande likely doesn't
count herself among his beloved "Sisters."
"Who's been the rudest celebrity you've ever
met?...
Ariana Grande…"
In April 2018, the beauty guru called out
Grande during an episode of "Beauty Battles,"
in which YouTubers Ryland Adams and Shane
Dawson each did makeup on one half of Charles'
face.
His comments quickly sent the "Thank U, Next"
singer's fans into a tizzy.
"I haven't talked about it because I really
like Ariana.
I guess I just had a really crappy experience
with her."
Charles said he had posted videos from one
of Grande's concerts and that the next morning
Grande followed him and sent him a sweet message
thanking him for coming to her performance
- leaving him absolutely ecstatic.
He said she told him she wished she'd known
he was coming so that she could have had him
backstage to meet her in person - but that
sentiment apparently didn't last long.
"This was right after, like, all of my scandals
started happening, so I was getting a bunch
of really, really angry tweets from her fans
that were really mad that she had followed
me."
He says that within hours of getting online
hate from Arianators, he started seeing tweets
saying that Grande had unfollowed him.
"And I was like what the heck, so I checked
and she did actually unfollow me, literally
three hours after she followed me."
Charles said he messaged Grande to ask what
he did wrong, and claims she replied that
she, quote, "saw a lot of angry tweets [from
her fans and] didn't want to disappoint them,"
so she unfollowed him.
"It just really sucked that, like, I was literally
getting bullied by her fans, and instead of,
like, just ignoring it and, like, building
a friendship, she literally listened to them
and unfollowed, saying, like, 'That's OK to
do.'"
Calling Grande "one of the most talented vocalists
of our generation," the first-ever CoverGirl
Cover Boy added he doesn't have hard feelings
toward Grande and still admires her professionally.
Grande's fans then lashed out at Charles on
Twitter, as Billboard reported, to which Charles
responded,
"Ariana Grande fans bully James Charles once
again after James Charles answers a question
in a video about a disappointing experience
he had with her but followed the experience
by saying he had no hard feelings and how
much he loved her and her music."
He later tweeted,
"I've messaged Ariana on Instagram apologizing
for speaking on the situation in my video
but also explaining where I was coming from
& why I said what I said.
I made it clear in my video I still loved
& respected her so if you choose to only hear
the bad, that's on you.
Let it be."
Grande hasn't responded publicly to any of
Charles' remarks.
The makeup guru is far from the only star
who's taken issue with Grande's alleged attitude.
The Cab frontman Alexander DeLeon tweeted
in 2011,
"Hope none of my fans ever have the displeasure
of meeting [Ariana Grande].
Most stuck up, disrespectful person I've ever
met in this industry."
Other celebs including Kanye West, Bette Midler,
and Chrissy Teigen have also expressed a distaste
in the past for the Florida-bred diva.
In 2014, the Daily News reported that Grande
wished death upon her fans after an autograph
session, and Giuliana Rancic called her out
by name for her diva antics on red carpets,
including demanding to only be photographed
from her "good side."
Rancic added,
"I just felt like it's one thing if it's Mariah.
Whatever it takes to get Mariah to do an interview.
But when you're new on the block, when you're
trying to earn your stripes, you're young,
you just gotta do what you gotta do."
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