“Once I was 17, it simply turned one thing that I didn’t wish to be part of in any respect anymore. I’d do something to interrupt away or get out of it. Folks would all the time ask me, ‘Are you homosexual?’ and I’d be like, ‘I don’t suppose I’m something,'” she stated. “I used to be on FaceTime with my girlfriend, and I did a video singing ‘Born This Manner,’ and was like, ‘I feel I wish to put this on my Reels Story,’ as a result of it was simply my shut mates.”
She continued, “I didn’t understand that no little one star as nonetheless a toddler star had ever come out earlier than. The president of the community known as me and was like, ‘What are we gonna inform the children?’ I used to be like, ‘What do you imply?’” JoJo stated that the exec advised her to name “each retailer” to “inform them you are not going loopy.”
“All the things after I got here out modified,” she claimed. “The best way they communicated with me modified. The best way they labored with me modified. The best way they developed my work modified. All the things modified.”
When this story was first reported, a Nickelodeon spokesperson advised the Hollywood Reporter, “We’re unaware of the incident JoJo is referencing, and he or she was definitely not blackballed by Nickelodeon. Now we have valued and supported JoJo all through our extremely profitable partnership, which included a JoJo-themed Pleasure assortment at a serious nationwide retailer, amongst our many collaborations collectively. We proceed to cheer her on and need her nothing however one of the best.”
