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MINI SCROLL: Viral "my husband left me for my daughter" series, Alex Cooper vs. Alix Earle updates + Ariana Grande looks "too" Ariana Grande · Mini Scroll

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  Coming up today on Mini Scroll, the new viral saga on TikTok
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  about a woman being left by her husband for her daughter.
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  But is it a grift or not some more Alex?
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  The Alex updates and social media users are debating over
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  Ariana Grande makeup style again.
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  All right, the first story that I have for you guys today, there
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  is a new viral saga on TikTok about a woman who says that she
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  has been left by her husband for her daughter.
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  However, users are divided on if this is a grift or not.
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  So the creator is named Melaine and she goes by Hope and Dimples
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  on TikTok. She's been posting all week this
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  multi part series about how her husband left her for her
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  daughter. This isn't the first time she's
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  posted about it, but it's the first time that she's done one
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  of these kind of like Arisa Tisa ask story times.
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  So it's gone very viral because of that.
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  The story times are 6 hours long.
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  So at a very high level, I'll tell you what's going on.
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  She and her husband, they were having financial troubles.
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  They were living in Idaho. So her daughter who lives in
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  Virginia across the country, offered for them to move into
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  her home that she had just purchased to help with their
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  financial struggles. Her daughter had a boyfriend who
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  was living with her as well. I can't remember or I don't know
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  if it was shared if they own the home together or if it's just
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  her daughter's home and he lives with her.
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  But regardless, he was living at the home.
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  Now moving to Virginia. Obviously, neither Mulane nor
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  her husband worked there, lived there.
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  So her daughter offered Mulane's husband to work at this small
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  construction company that she works at as well.
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  So he left and moved to Virginia first so he could start work.
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  And Mulane says she like, packed up the whole house, packed up
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  their life and made her way across the country.
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  She said that when she arrived, things were really weird, like
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  she didn't feel welcomed. And it seems like her daughter
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  and her husband had become really close.
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  And we're really like, annoyed with her all the time.
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  She said that her daughter would complain incessantly about her
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  boyfriend but said she couldn't break up with him because she
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  needed him to help pay their mortgage.
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  She didn't really explain how she realized this was happening,
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  but she claims that eventually she realized that her husband
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  was complaining to her daughter about their marriage all the
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  time. She asked her husband to stop
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  doing that and he refused to do that.
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  Then the husband and daughter had to go away for work.
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  They had to go to some convention in Las Vegas.
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  And when they returned, her daughter wouldn't speak to her
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  at all for months. And she says her husband took
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  her daughter's side and basically was like not speaking
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  to her either. So then there's this pharmacy
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  part of the story where her husband went to the doctor for a
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  checkup and he ended up getting a Viagra prescription.
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  And that's when Milane was like, something's got to be going on
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  because we are not currently having sex.
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  So like, why would you need Viagra?
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  So she asked her husband point blank if something was going on
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  with her daughter. Milane and her husband have to
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  go back to Idaho to tie up some loose ends with their home.
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  They hadn't sold their home yet and they were about to.
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  So they were like cleaning it up and tying up these loose ends.
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  And when they're in Idaho, he says, I've contact, I've
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  contacted an attorney and I wanted to.
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  It's in the same video that Mullane says she can't prove
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  that her husband and her daughter had a sexual
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  relationship, but she is convinced they had an emotional
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  one. And throughout her series, her
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  main thing seems to be that they have come together in like,
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  cahoots together to make her out to seem like really crazy and
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  to, like, smear her name across their community, friends,
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  family, turn people against her. She also says that they got her
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  quote, put in a mental hospital when she started telling her
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  story about them. And now she's been posting like,
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  quote, UN quote receipts because obviously this went quite viral
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  and people are like, OK, how can we believe you?
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  Basically, she's been posting these receipts.
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  And some of them are like really personal.
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  And I don't feel super comfortable sharing them here.
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  But some of them are like private legal documents, it
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  seems, and like private texts. Now she has put one of her
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  alleged former like, besties on blast.
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  So a woman named Maddie commented on her daughter's
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  video, on Milan's daughter's video, which I will get into.
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  I will get into what the daughter is posting on TikTok as
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  well. So this woman named Maddie
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  commented and she wrote as a longtime friend of the mother's
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  10 years. Mom is lying and unwell upset
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  about the divorce and taking it out on her daughter admitted to
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  me she's looking to go viral on TikTok so she can start making
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  money. So then Milan screenshotted that
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  and then put it alongside a screenshot of the fact that this
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  Maddie woman is following her. Milan basically saying is that
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  you friend? She writes and then she says,
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  remember when I hosted your wedding in my backyard and puts
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  a picture of this woman's wedding?
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  Remember being invited to all my parties and puts a picture of
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  this woman and I think maybe like her husband, I guess at one
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  of Milan's parties, a picture of them together.
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  Remember when you were the only friend I trusted in Idaho and
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  you said you believed me? Remember Me hosting your baby
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  shower and it's a picture of them at her baby shower?
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  Remember how many times you trusted me with your baby and
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  it's a picture of Milan and this baby.
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  Leave the baby out of this. Are you kidding me?
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  Putting a picture like this on your viral TikTok of someone
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  else's baby is on Hinged. I really don't like that.
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  And then it's another picture of the two of them.
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  Remember when I was the only friend you wanted to see the
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  premiere with? It's like a the Barbie premiere.
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  I guess lying on someone who was so kind to you is not going to
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  end well for you. Good luck though.
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  That's what she wrote. All right, so let's get into her
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  daughter's account of things. Her daughter has a TikTok called
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  Mcmath House where she's basically showing how she's
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  renovating her late father's home.
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  And she first started posting about her mom, it seems, on
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  April 9th, using that trend. That's like, sometimes you have
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  to read your boyfriend's text or whoever's text and get on with
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  your day. But hers was sometimes you have
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  to watch your mom publicly accuse you of sleeping with her
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  husband and go about your day. And she has that text over a
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  photo of her, like the daughter of her with her boyfriend, who
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  is presumably the same boyfriend that was living in this house
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  when all of this went down. And then it's a swipe across.
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  And you can see a screenshot of a TikTok from Elaine where she's
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  crying in the car. And the text over it from
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  Elaine's video says a drag path. But it's me healing last year
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  after my husband left me for my daughter.
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  So she has since been posting a lot of content, nothing really
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  like with her side of the story, like her account of events,
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  which some people are like, can you, if you're gonna post about
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  this, can you just like share, like talk to camera and like
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  debunk the things that your mom is saying or like, share your
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  side of the story? But I also understand why she
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  doesn't want to because whether this is true or not, this is
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  airing like so much family dirty laundry.
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  Because if it's not true and the daughter is like not in on this,
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  this is just an example of her mom being, you know, like
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  they're saying possibly unwell. And this is not like a path you
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  want to go down, right? But she has been posting
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  content. So she's mostly been posting
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  screenshots of support from her friends and family.
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  So for example, she posted Adm she received that says one of my
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  friends who works at blank told me about finding your page.
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  So I felt like sending a quick message to say that your mom
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  stayed at our campground as a seasonal with us and she ended
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  up leaving and blocking all of our phone calls and refused to
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  pay us what she owed us. She would constantly tell us sob
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  stories about you claiming to have stolen her husband and it
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  was always so much drama with her.
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  The police would show up on multiple occasions because of
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  her and then had ended up in a mental hospital for seven days
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  in which she made it clear she was blaming you as well.
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  I always wanted to know your side of the story.
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  So is so crazy and full circle to finally see.
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  And then she posted a screenshot as well of the comment section.
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  So that same friend Maddie who was saying like I know the mom,
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  I've been her friend for 10 years.
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  The same woman who Melaine put her baby in her TikTok video.
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  So this woman responded to somebody else.
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  So somebody wrote confused. So daughter and ex close.
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  She said she was not sure if they were having an affair or
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  not and then Maddie responded they never had an affair.
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  He wanted a divorce and she supported him.
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  Mom is mad at both of them and spun this narrative.
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  I was friends with mom IRL. She posted another DM she
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  received that said I knew Melane personally and I have met her
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  ex-husband. I never knew or met her daughter
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  but I can tell you that she is been mentally unstable for a
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  long time and when all of this started and she started her
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  TikTok page she cut a bunch of us out of her life.
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  I feel like it's because she knew we would expose her lies.
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  She has always played the victim.
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  Keep speaking your truth because you are hitting the nail on the
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  head. Someone else commented on TikTok
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  that she posted this as well. I've been extremely close with
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  her since we were 15 and I've been heartbroken to watch this
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  unfold. I've stayed quiet because she
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  wants you to engage so she can have more things to talk about
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  so she can get followers and make money off TikTok and have
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  people send her money. But I feel I have to speak up
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  because what she has continually been doing to her daughter makes
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  me sick and I feel so bad for her taking advantage of the kind
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  hearted people that have given her their money.
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  It's been super hard to watch. There is content on TikTok of
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  Milan saying that she's going to have to start asking people for
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  money because she doesn't really have a way to support herself
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  right now it seems. So now the daughter's friend Lil
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  Low on TikTok has also come out and made a few videos about
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  this, backing up her friend backing up Milan's daughter
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  calling Milan a narcissist TikTok.
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  Drama is not fucking funny when you know the people actually
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  involved and I wish that y'all would realize that that shit of
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  that Lady posting like oh me healing after my husband left me
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  for my daughter. She's full of shit.
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  I know her daughter, I know her daughter, her daughter's in a
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  relationship. She did not do nothing to that
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  fucking lady. that Lady some type of narcissist and she's
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  getting up here slandering somebody.
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  I know his name for shits and giggles.
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  And what really set me because I've been telling her daughter
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  don't really say shit. Just just let it go.
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  Let it roll off your back. But what's getting me, and the
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  reason I'm saying something is because she's going to have the
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  nerve to post her daughter's deceased grandma and say, I
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  wonder what they would think of you knowing what you did,
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  knowing you're fucking lying, knowing you're fucking lying,
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  Meaning you don't even have enough respect for the dead to
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  stop lying on your own child. You don't have enough respect
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  for yourself to stop lying on your own child.
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  And when people get in her comments and they're like, hey,
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  you're really vague about what's happening here.
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  You're not making any sense. You're not answering any of the
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  questions. She just likes the comment.
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  Then the daughter messaged someone trying to defend
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  herself, which is why I've been telling people, you ain't always
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  got to defend yourself. And it's like, hey, I actually
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  didn't do any of this and I don't know why.
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  My mother, the person who fucking birthed me, it's on a
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  smear campaign. I can only believe it's for I
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  don't fucking know likes and views.
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  That's what I'm saying that part.
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  But she messages someone and that person's like no I believe
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  her and sent the screenshot to her mom.
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  Her mom post the fucking screenshot and it's like oh you
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  seem guilty because you're defending yourself.
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  What type of fucking weirdos are on this fucking app?
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  Y'all be making the wrong people fucking popular.
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  If you see her video, ask her why she's fucking lying and.
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  Now the husband has apparently been telling his side of this
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  story for years on Reddit. Allegedly.
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  I don't know how people found this out.
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  I think maybe because the story is like match up.
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  I couldn't really figure out how people found this out.
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  However, he has a Reddit account.
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  An alleged Reddit account. It's allegedly him under the
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  name average guy under score 6767.
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  Why did he choose 6-7? I don't know.
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  And this is what people are saying about his accounts.
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  Like he has this huge comment and post history on a Reddit
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  thread about this whole situation.
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  Somebody wrote search up average guy 6-7 on Reddit because it's
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  the husband. I would read it all.
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  Very enlightening. His post paint a very different
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  story than what she said about the selling of their house.
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  They move in and immediately the daughter calls out her
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  narcissistic behavior and they fight a lot.
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  Husband starts noticing yeah this isn't OK or normal.
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  Says OK to divorce when she threatens it again which she has
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  in Milan. Admits in her video this part in
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  his post and comments. He also alludes to them
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  essentially bonding over the fact that her mom and his wife
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  is a narcissist. Apparently this is how her dad
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  was treated by her mom and when they divorced, she left her kids
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  to pack up and go be with the next man to pay her bills.
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  OK. And then according to Milan's
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  most recent TikTok, it seems like the daughter, the husband,
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  and maybe some of their friends who are like commenting about
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  this did a live stream earlier today to discuss all of this.
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  And I understand feeling like you really need to clear your
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  name because Milan's story is going so viral.
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  But I do fear that Internet users are going to get like a
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  really parasocial and, like, freaky about all of this.
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  And I feel like it's just like fanning a lot of flames.
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  I just feel like continually bringing this to the Internet is
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  maybe not the best decision. What is super interesting about
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  this story is how divided people are.
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  So like Milan's comment section is literally filled with people
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  defending her daughter and I thought when I went to the
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  daughter's page that it would be the same, but it's not.
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  It's a literally filled with people defending Milan.
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  I feel like people can see their own family dynamics in this
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  story and they are projecting what they believe to be true
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  based on their own experiences and their own families and
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  relationship dynamics onto these people.
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  But at the end of the day, like these are real people.
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  I don't think we will ever get confirmation that one thing is
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  true versus another. I don't know.
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  I am personally inclined to believe the daughter because
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  some of the Lane's older content is about like cutting off toxic
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  children. And I'm not saying that children
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  can't be toxic. But I mean, I've said this
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  before in the pod. I really believe there is always
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  a power imbalance in a child parent relationship and a child
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  choosing to go no contact with a parent is not something that
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  they would ever want to do. That is not something that is
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  taken lightly. That is probably one of the
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  hardest decisions that a child would ever have to make.
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  I've also seen mean that the husband is now back in Idaho now
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  that they're divorced. So if he actually did leave
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  Milan for the daughter, would he not be in Virginia with the
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  daughter? And I think that's why the
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  daughter keeps posting pictures and videos with her and her
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  boyfriend to be like, I'm still in this relationship.
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  Like I'm still in a relationship with my boyfriend.
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  I'm not in a relationship with your ex-husband.
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  Anyways, guys, let me know what you think about this one.
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  All right, the next story that I have for you guys, Be Better has
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  chimed in on Alex V Alex and the Earls are responding.
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  So I really hate to give Be Better the time of day.
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  And normally I wouldn't really cover his like, quote UN quote
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  reporting on a situation. However, the Earls are
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  responding to his quote UN quote reporting, so it's become
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  relevant. Be Better is a Tik Toker who
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  went viral for his the downfall of series.
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  He's had tons of controversy because he used to make these,
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  like, insane, sweeping statements backed up by
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  basically nothing about public figures.
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  And I think he got himself into some hot water.
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  He did have to disappear from social media for a bit after he
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  made a video about the downfall of Kamala Harris that did not
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  land well. And people dug up a lot about
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  his family's political ties and stuff like that after that
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  video. And he also faced a lot of
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  scrutiny when he interviewed Zach Sellers about James
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  Charles's alleged involvement with Evan Johnson, who was
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  charged with domestic violence against influencer Kayla Malik.
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  I know that's like word salad, but eventually Evan Johnson was
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  best friends with this man named Zach Sellers.
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  James Charles and Evan Johnson were close and James was also
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  like friendly with Kayla. Evan and Kayla were dating and
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  he was charged with domestic violence against Kayla.
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  And so be better interviewed Evan Johnson's ex best friend
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  about how James Charles allegedly like supported Evan
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  Johnson through that process. And that's not to say that
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  that's not something valid to look into with James, but in
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  general, like it felt very ironic that it was be better
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  conducting this interview. People just feel like he really
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  sensationalizes and like uses people for clout.
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  And the way he goes about his reporting feels very unethical.
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  Anyways, now he's made this TikTok about Alex Cooper and
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  Alex Earl where he claims that he spoke to 17 sources and has
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  figured out what happened. He basically claims that it has
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  mostly to do with money and politics.
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  He says Alex Earl was only getting $1.2 million a year of
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  the $125 million serious deal that Alex Cooper signed for
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  Unwell and that Alex Earl's team, like her dad, mostly they
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  weren't happy about that because Alex Cooper would have never
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  landed that deal if it wasn't for Alex Earl already being
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  involved. And like her being able to pitch
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  it as like the Unwell network is expanding and like, here's the
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  talent that we have. He says things got really messy
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  when Alex Earl posted in support of Israel after October 7th,
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  2023, and that Alex Earl's dad, who was a staunch Republican,
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  was super pissed when Alex Cooper interviewed Kamala Harris
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  and that he pressured the Unwell Network to also extend an invite
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  to Donald Trump. And then Alex Cooper regretted
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  that she extended this invite and like made that public.
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  I don't know if you guys remember, but she actually, like
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  made a statement about how she invited Donald Trump on the
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  podcast too. He says Alex Cooper regrets
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  that. And in general, he just says
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  Alex Cooper had a lot of issues with how the public perceived
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  Alex Earl in terms of like her politics and stuff like that
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  because she is trying to build something progressive.
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  Like Alex Cooper is trying to build something progressive.
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  He claims This is why Alex Earl hasn't yet responded because it
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  will not make her look great, like it won't be a sympathetic
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  story to the audience. So now Ashton Earl responded to
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  this video. She wrote in the comments these
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  sources are so wrong. And then Alex Earl posted a tick
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  tock of her like pole dancing and somebody commented well, but
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  we got some tea from Marcos. So Marcos is be Betters first
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  name and Alex wrote doesn't mean it's true.
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  You'll see now since B Better's video dropped, allegedly Alex
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  Cooper pinned a video that she posted in October and it's just
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  like a selfie of her looking at the camera and the text over it
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  says I just saw a girl saying idolizing Trump is like thinking
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  the stripper actually likes you. And they say allegedly because I
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  could not Fact Check if this was pinned previous to this or not.
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  But apparently people are saying that she pinned this only after
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  be betters video went up. Well, I don't know if all of the
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  information that be better has is valid or not.
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  Obviously. Definitely take it all with a
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  grain of salt, but I think it's very obvious that this rift
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  occurred probably because of money, business, and possibly
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  politics was involved as well. And I agree, it probably
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  actually wasn't a great decision for Alex Cooper to have someone
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  like Alex Earl fronting the network so publicly because Alex
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  Earl is so adamant about staying quiet on things and she has some
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  questionable personal and familial affiliations.
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  I stand by what I said last week that I think Alex Cooper
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  publicly feuding like this is not a great look as a business
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  owner and as the previous quote UN quote bossed Alex Earl.
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  However, of course, I will always be inclined to back
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  someone who is anti mega and actually stands for something
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  like at least Alex Cooper uses her ginormous platform to speak
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  out about politics and women's rights and issues and all of
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  that kind of stuff, which is obviously more than we can say
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  about Alex Earl. And I fear we are going to have
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  to wait for the Netflix show, Alex Earl's Netflix show to hear
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  her side. OK, the next story that I have
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  for you guys today is Ariana Grande looks too much like
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  herself according to TikTok users.
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  So social media users are debating over Ariana Grande's
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  makeup style again after the trailer for Fokker and Law has
• 20:13
  dropped. Ozzy pop culture creator Bella
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  Hogman is the one who really brought this to the forefront.
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  She's going super viral for her take on Ariana's look in the
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  film. My.
• 20:22
  Issue with Ariana Grande is that she looks too much like Ariana
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  Grande. The new Frocker in Law trailer
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  came out today and I'm not gonna lie, it looks so funny and I
• 20:30
  love that Ariana Grande is doing more acting.
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  I think that she has the most impeccable comedic timing.
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  She's hilarious. But like, this looks like a
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  R.E.M. Beauty ad.
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  This looks like an album cover. This looks like Eternal Sunshine
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  promo. I understand that she had to be
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  blonde. I get that, but it's like the
• 20:44
  fake eyelashes, the makeup that she clearly does herself like
• 20:48
  this is her exact look. Like to a tee, the eyebrows like
• 20:52
  they don't look natural. They don't look like real
• 20:55
  people's eyebrows. She just looks like Ariana
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  Grande in this trailer. Her.
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  Point is that Arianae hair and makeup in the films that we've
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  seen her in recently, they're too similar to like her pop star
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  persona. So it kind of takes us out of
• 21:08
  the experience because we see Ariana Grande the look, the pop
• 21:12
  star as opposed to the character or even just like Ariana Grande
• 21:15
  the actress. And you guys know, if you have
• 21:18
  listened to Minnie for a while, you will know how I felt about
• 21:21
  Ariana Grande's makeup in Wicked.
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  I don't even think I talked about it in Wicked 2, but for
• 21:25
  Wicked One, I was unable to recover from the experience of
• 21:30
  watching her strip lashes take center stage as Glinda.
• 21:34
  Like I could not get past that. So I understand what she's
• 21:39
  saying here. I think it's probably likely
• 21:41
  that Ari has a look she likes to stick to and because she's so a
• 21:45
  list, she can kind of call the shots on that.
• 21:47
  And I get it, Okay, I have a signature makeup look that
• 21:50
  sounds like so dramatic, but I do like I have like 1 specific
• 21:53
  makeup look that I have done for basically my whole life that I
• 21:56
  feel like I only look good in. Like this is the only style of
• 21:58
  makeup that I really feel suits my face.
• 22:00
  So if I was going to be on camera and I was going to be
• 22:03
  like a famous person and millions of people were going to
• 22:05
  be watching me, like I would also want to be in the look that
• 22:08
  I feel the most me and and the most comfortable in.
• 22:11
  However, I also understand Bella's point and other people's
• 22:14
  points, which is like, if you're an actress and you're being paid
• 22:16
  to play someone else, like the hair and the makeup, that's part
• 22:20
  of the package deal. You kind of have to do that.
• 22:22
  Now, on the flip side, Bella has faced some backlash over this
• 22:24
  take. People are saying it's
• 22:26
  misogynistic because women are so scrutinized for their
• 22:29
  appearance in the public eye in general.
• 22:31
  And nobody's talking about how men in the industry don't look
• 22:34
  very different role to role. And I understand what people
• 22:37
  mean here for sure. But I also understand this is
• 22:41
  like, I'm so on the fence about this, but I also understand
• 22:43
  where the critics are coming in saying like, the problem is that
• 22:46
  Ari has this like curated pop star look.
• 22:49
  She's not criticizing what Ariana Grande looks like.
• 22:53
  It's more that she wears the exact same style in every single
• 22:58
  thing we've seen her in recently.
• 22:59
  I don't know. What do you guys think about
• 23:01
  that? OK, And the last thing I wanted
• 23:03
  to ask you guys, would you like me to recap for tomorrow what
• 23:07
  has been going on with Emma Greed?
• 23:09
  So Emma Greed, she's the businesswoman behind so many of
• 23:11
  the Kardashian brands. She just came out with this new
• 23:14
  book. I have been reading the book so
• 23:15
  I can have, you know, a little hot take in there.
• 23:18
  I just don't know if it's boring for you guys, like if you care
• 23:20
  about that kind of stuff. But in her book she talks about
• 23:22
  how she's like a three hour mom and people are losing their
• 23:24
  minds over this. The media's picked it up.
• 23:27
  TikTok is running wild with it where she's basically saying she
• 23:30
  has three hours for her kids and like that is the extent of the
• 23:33
  time that she can spend with them and wants to spend with
• 23:36
  them because she's so busy doing other things.
• 23:38
  That's kind of like a simplistic take on it.
• 23:40
  But anyways, that's how people are interpreting it.
• 23:43
  So would you guys like me to recap what's going on there
• 23:46
  tomorrow? I don't know if like the
• 23:48
  business person behind the Kardashian brands is interesting
• 23:52
  to you, you know, and it's kind of more like a business mom
• 23:54
  story, which feels a little bit like not quite mini scroll ask,
• 23:58
  but I'm personally interested in emigreed and like the business
• 24:01
  side of her story. So let me know anyways, guys,
• 24:05
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