NikkieTutorials Says It’s Hard to Talk About Her Robbery
In her final YouTube online video of 2020, influencer and makeup artist NikkieTutorials reflected on her whirlwind of a calendar year, which involved publicly coming out as transgender just after she was blackmailed by people trying to leak her story to the media and obtaining robbed at gunpoint alongside her fiancé Dylan Drossaers in their Netherlands dwelling.
In a supporter Q&A, Nikkie, whose total name is Nikkie de Jager, talked about coming out just shy of one particular 12 months back.
“I came out beneath force and at the time, I have reported this a couple occasions, I felt like I was heading to reduce it all. Thank god I did not,” she explained. “I don’t know if I’m allowed to say this but to the one particular who experimented with to blackmail me, honey, glimpse at me now.”
The artist, who lately collaborated with Selena Gomez in a YouTube movie, added that she does not like how the discussion shifted from her accomplishments following she shared she was transgender.
“The just one point that I feared in the commencing was that every thing that I accomplished or obtained in life, it would no longer be, ‘Oh Nikkie won this’ or ‘Nikkie did that,'” she spelled out. “I was afraid that it would turn out to be, ‘Oh Nikkie, the transgender, won this and achieved that.’ That has occurred, which, if you are part of the media, you want to cease that, okay? I won’t issue what I am, I’m Nikkie, all right? So if I acquire an award, I gain an award!”