It is the year of our internet 2023, and as surely as the sun rises, an internet celebrity has an apology to make. So here I am, sitting in James Charles's Encino mansion like a pop culture priest, ready to take his confession.
Let us begin: "I don't want to sit here and fucking mope and whine and cry, because nobody wants to hear it," says Charles, sinking into a plush couch in his casual open living room. "I had to do a lot of thinking. Like, Okay, babe, this is your fault. No, you're not a pedophile. No, you're not a fucking groomer. No, you're not a predator. But you made a big mistake."
At this point, you're likely familiar with the specific quid pro quo inherent in celebrity profiles like this—the ones that come together post-cancellation, after a respectable amount of time has passed post–cancelable sin. It's no surprise that a star's willingness to answer intimate questions about a catastrophic stretch of their lives increases dramatically when they have a project to promote. In today's case, that's ostensibly Charles's new makeup line, Painted. But it's also Charles himself—a warier, acceptably contrite but still just a little extra Charles. This very interview is to be a trial balloon, its reception the answer to the question both of us—and maybe you, too, if what autopopulates in Google Search can be believed—are here to ask: "Is James Charles still canceled?" |
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