Wow. This is (thankfully) the only comment I’ve seen of this nature.If what James has done is true, then it is really appalling but there is something about Tati that rubs me the wrong way. She is a 37 year old woman crying about a teenage boy. She paid and flew him out when he was only 17 to do her makeup and she was in a position of power as she had a career and followers and James was relatively unknown then. If the genders where reversed and it was a man flying out a teen girl and promising big brand deals and lots of money it would be creepy. I can believe that James has made mistakes and preyed on straight men as that is what the evidence shows but Tati still did some questionable things, no matter how nice her intentions where.
This disturbs me more than anything, that literally any time someone does a nice thing or helps someone out, there might be a seedy, dark reason behind it.
She is not “crying about a teenage boy” I think that’s very clear.
She didn’t “promise him big brand deals” where on earth did you get this information? Or “lots of money”
Her husband helped him negotiate a new deal with his management and Tati helped him (as a friend) to get exposure.
If helping a young kid get his foot in the door of the beauty industry is “questionable” I’ve lost all faith in humanity.
Whatever side you land on with these two implying something like this is at play ain’t cool just my opinion no hate.
I also think Tati struggling to conceive might have made it all the more painful, because she did see him like a son in some ways, in my opinion anyway.