May 12, 2020 — Colleen Ballinger Posts First Apology Video

On May 12, 2020, Colleen Ballinger posted a Youtube apology video titled “addressing everything.”

First, she apologized for a 14-year-old video where she and her sister were pretending to be Latinx women, admitting that the characters were “completely based in racial stereotypes.” “It is not funny, and it is completely hurtful. I am so ashamed and embarrassed that I ever thought this was okay,” she says. “I was a sheltered teenager who was stupid and ignorant and clearly extremely culturally insensitive.”

She apologized for how she spoke about an overweight woman who she sat next to on a flight 12 years before the video and said that the comments she made were awful. “That is not the woman I am today.”

Ballinger also apologized about a joke she made about having to put down a dog that bit her as a child and said “still to this day as a 33-year-old woman” she feels guilt for her dog’s death.

“To anyone and everyone who was hurt or offended by the statements I made when I was younger, I am so, so sorry. I hope you all can see that the person I am today is so far from the person I was a decade ago,” she said.

The Youtuber also explained McIntyre’s claims of sending the lingerie saying that she did not immediately address Mcintyre’s concerns “to respect the wishes of the teen’s mother. She shared screenshots of their past interactions but only of the adults involved since McIntyre was a minor at the time. “It was a big joke within the fandom,” she says, later adding, “In my mind at the time, this was no different than all the other weird stuff I send to my fans as a joke. Now in hindsight, I see how completely stupid of me. I should have never sent that.” 

She denied giving McIntyre access to her Twitter account for over a year and he only had her password for a day as a “test run.” A controversial tweet where Miranda Sings pretended to come out as an LGBTQ-inspired tweet only to come out as a Meghan Trainor fan was part of the access, but Ballinger admitted that it was an oversight in the approvals process. “I knew better than to let someone else tweet for me. I should have reviewed closely every single thing that was going to come from ‘Miranda’s’ mouth. I let him know that I loved him, he did a great job. It was my fault, not his,”

She ends the video by promising that she will “continue to learn” as a human being. 

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