Colleen Ballinger & James Charles Talk Cancel Culture & Being There For Him During Summer Beauty Drama

Colleen Ballinger and James Charles are opening up about their thoughts on cancel culture.

In a new “Carpool Karaoke” video on James‘ channel, the two friends talked about the beauty drama last summer and how she wanted to be there for her friend.

“I was concerned because I don’t like when anyone is going through it, no matter what the situation is, I think bullying is so horrible. Whether people think it’s warranted bullying or not,” Colleen said. “I was just checking in on you. We just had a sweet conversation.”

“I hung up the phone and started sobbing,” James replied. “It was when I was in Australia, and you called me… You, honestly, have been such an amazing friend to me for a long time now.”

“I don’t like cancel culture. I think it’s important to call people out when they make mistakes, and I think it’s important to hold people accountable when they do things wrong,” Colleen continued. “I don’t like when people just don’t listen to every side of the story, and don’t come at it with empathy for anyone.”

“When I called you, I didn’t see James Charles the internet person, I just saw a human who was struggling, and I saw my friend… I didn’t know what was going on, I didn’t know what the truth was, I didn’t know anything. All I knew was that you were getting bullied pretty badly and I wanted to make sure you were okay, regardless of whatever the situation was,” she added.