DEAR KAT VON D: IT’S EASIER TO TELL THE TRUTH.

Hello everyone, today's video is very difficult for me. I'm sitting here because we're on day two since Kat posted her video about me and at first it was really shocking to see someone I've known for ten years. years ago I did something so aggressive that it really made me sad because there were so many things that were not true in the video and obviously I have my subscribers and followers and clients, and so does she, so obviously people are going to take sides, but things have surpassed the spot. of just drama on the internet or things have gone from being just a little bit ugly, we are now at the point where two days later I get a call from three of my family members and people on the internet after watching your video found their numbers are calling my family screaming death threats over the phone and leaving really nasty and vile messages and that's really scary and it's also sad that strangers on the internet who have never met her and have never met me are being so aggressive now, obviously.

It is my perfect past that is nobody's. I have definitely apologized for all my mistakes. If you don't follow me on Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram, you can find everything that worries you or if you have ever had any concerns. Over the past few months, I've seen hundreds of videos using my name and just entered this big circus, so now that we're here, I'd like to give my side of the story and my official statement on everyone. I think this has become so extreme. I can't believe you would knowingly and calculatedly post something where you knew the response it was going to get.

You're not a random friend of mine. You are a celebrity. You have paparazzi behind you. You're a big name, you can't deny it and for you to use such a big platform to just say things that aren't true and get the response you knew you were going to get is so disheartening and so cruel that you enter. video and start by saying that it is not an offensive video. I don't want my followers or fans to attack, but you knew exactly what was going to happen, so everyone who is attacking me and being aggressive and choosing sides without even hearing me speak, that's okay. about you, but coming on all social media platforms and attacking my friends, my boyfriend, my cousins ​​and my mother is very disturbing and I never knew you would take something this far, so I'm going to summarize the points of everything she said. on the video of her and all the things that people have been attacking me with and I'm just going to lay it all out on the table.

I think the big elephant in the room is this mysterious text message I sent her that she said she was going to show screenshots on Twitter, she never did so I'm going to show our text conversation on camera because I think which is fair and I really think a big part of the story is missing, so I definitely want to show you these texts. The messages are very important to this backstory, so around December of last year we started talking more slowly. I started to get very busy with life and everything. I've had so many big changes since I launched my friend. and I think that's really important to note, as you can see in mid-December, we hadn't really talked before, but she reached out to me because she was doing a YouTube compilation for her channel about people who were afraid of clowns or something.

So then she mounts me and says: can you have a photo of the clown tattoo I have? So of course I send one and I send another photo, okay, great, and then you see me in January communicating with the furniture I had just moved into. My new house and the furniture in her house are unreal. I didn't know they were custom made at the time, so you see I'm fine asking for advice. You see my pink chair, so you see, I was talking about furniture moving and then silence, it's the end of February and she asked me if I'm doing a collaboration with anyone, which I'm going to delete because it's just for privacy reasons, so I He asked if I'm doing a collaboration with this person and I told him no.

Until the end of February I asked him: Can I film myself getting a tattoo for my channel? After I asked her to film, she goes silent. I didn't hear her or speak to her until a few days ago, so a lot of people on Twitter missed her performance. what I said I said I haven't really seen her face to face in almost a year the last time I saw her was in September as you can see on her Instagram if it's still active and it's probably on mine where we posted a photo together and she says best friends forever, so let's fast forward to the end of July right now.

I get a text on Friday and as you can see all she says is: Hi Geoffrey, I just got off the phone with BJ Bets, please explain. Why haven't they paid her for the artwork she provided so you can imagine where I come from? My friend has become very distant. My clothes. One of my best friends has gone really quiet on me. I'm just sitting here like there was never a fight, there was never a crazy moment, there was never anything, so I just sat back and got 100% very angry. I was like, is this real? This is so weird, instead of calling me or starting the fight.

The conversation is simple anyway and I'm fine in my head, I'm sitting there saying: you're not his manager, you're not his lawyer, you're not his business partner, you work with him a little on some designs I guess, but I don't understand why. what was his place to say something, he actually had no idea what had already happened and what was happening so fast, little backstory. BJ makes some artwork for Cat. Now I know that Cat has always said that she makes Oliver's artwork for everyone. burping, but Bj has done lettering for some of her palettes, so when she was developing my line I approached her and said: Hi, do you know anyone who can help me with the art?

I asked her if she wanted to do anything and she refused, which I totally understand. and she put me in touch with this guy, so I went up to him and said, hey, I'm going to use cat marks. I want to do some things, lalala, now my brand didn't exist at the moment, it was an idea and I had started working on my liquid lip formula and that was it. I didn't have a company yet. It didn't have a website. She didn't have any products, so I asked her if she knew any artists and she put me in touch with BJ Betts.

Now he started an idea for me now at this moment I think it's very important to know that I took my life savings when I left music and I also find a defensive cat that you would say I wasn't doing anything at the time. He had a very successful clothing line. The online presence was growing and growing and I was getting ready to launch a brand, so I think it was very unfair to say it, but I think it's important to know that I invested my entire life savings into my first three shades. Something she also did not mention is that initially she was going to be the investor behind my brand and what I mean by investing is lending me a certain amount of money to be able to start my company and then I would pay her immediately and that was because she agreed, I have emails that we exchanged, she gave me a lot of amazing advice and I was very excited, so we were in the lab, I'm doing things and she was silent and I was like, hey. you know what's going on and I never heard back from the investment, which I thought was really strange because we're talking about, you know, years and years of friendship, she said she was depressed and then she went silent, so let's go back to the logo now so many.

People are harassing me and sending me the nastiest messages about this logo incident. You heard one side of the story. Now let's talk about the

truth

. So the last text message I sent is very important. I'm in her video, she says. I told her to leave or leave herself I never said that cat, why did you make that up? The real message, which I think is a little scary and is going to bother some people, is this, let me read it to you. The first thing I said was that Vijay never made artwork. for me and we stopped using it, what I mean by this is that he started an idea but he didn't design all my packaging, so at that time Vijay wanted, I wanted him to design all my packaging for my liquid lip and Vijay.

He started drawing a logo, he asked me if I wanted him to design all my packaging and I said, hey, let's start with the logo and see what happens, so that screenshot that Kat pulled up is like about 20 logos that I had quickly sketched on the moment when I was excited to do something, but I was also a little scared because at that point I had invested all my money, every last penny I had, into my brand, so I just sat there like, "Oh my God, This guy is like an amazing tattoo, he's a respectable artist, he's worked with her and done so many things, so I'm like, oh my god, long story short, I didn't have a manager at the time.

I had just fired my entire team from the. music a year later, here we are. There's no manager, no lawyer, no business advisor to help me, so I'm just this person who doesn't really have much money left. I'm trying to start my brand and Point Blank couldn't afford it. , so when I found out what he charged, I was like, "Oh my God, I can't afford that moment, I'm so sorry, I'll have to walk away" and I went to someone who had already been designing my entire clothing line with hats and Mi. brand was called forever beauty now that I have a makeup line I closed it but all those designs and everything are still online and I just want to point out that my merchandise in a hot topic between 2007 and 2009 had a star logo. on everything that has the J and you can Google that all the receipts are there, so fast forward to now.

I walked away. I definitely couldn't afford VJs at that time. I just didn't know what I was doing back then. I definitely learned my lesson, if someone is doing business with someone, make sure you have a contract or a small agreement or something like that before you start working on ideas because that's how things got so bad, so here we are my boy graphic made the logo for me. It's a basic Google star I'm not tooting my own horn It's a star My name is Geoffrey Starr I changed my name legally ten years ago I put stars on everything I've owned since the beginning of time, so this logo was my graphic Well, let me do something and I said I was very inspired by classic designers like Gucci, Louie and Chanel, so he made a simple jay and put it there.

Does it look one hundred percent similar? But did I steal the logo? One hundred percent I didn't, so I never stole a logo and BJ never said I stole the logo. In fact, in talking to him this week I discovered that he had no idea that Cat was going to go public and show his design and mention his name. I know. that he is a private person and that he has a family, so for her to express this without asking him beforehand, I find it very appropriate and I am sorry that he is now being dragged into this.

What the cat did and what she shouldn't have done is talk. for someone who never asked him and also didn't know that my current manager and lawyer were already talking to his manager and lawyer and we are working on something because, simply put, now that my Brent is successful, he wanted to take care of me. from someone who was a contract worker who helped me in the beginning and inspired something so long to summarize. Vijay has been paid, he has been paid in full, no debt, no bills to pay, all that crazy bullying and psychotic behavior that What I've seen is so crazy I don't understand why people try so hard when they don't know the real story, so Vijay gets paid, you can go to his Twitter and read it, no problems, no hard feelings and we could work on something in the future for a platform for next year.

I write catback and first say that he never made artwork for me and we stopped using him, the fact that you even have the nerve to text me after

tell

ing him. owner of Too Faced cosmetics, that I tried to steal ideas from our lab is really disgusting and disturbing, and I don't know myself anymore and please worry about yourself, stay out of my business, that was the last thing I did. I told her then she said I said go yourself or this I never said that I don't know why you're

tell

ing people that I don't know why you lied but the proof is here I never told you that cat here's where the story gets a little ugly Two weeks before this conversation I was at an event hosted by Too Faced Cosmetics, which is a great makeup brand that I've been a big fan of since I started wearing makeup at the age of 12. one of the first brands I discovered at Sephora I think the owner is amazing.

I think they are very talented and their products are top notch, so someone very tall and two-faced I am NOT going to name that person in an environment of privacy and respect. but this person told me at the event some strange things, he said, hey, we're collaborating with Kat right now, our photoshoot was at 10:00 a.m. m., she didn't even show up until... she's very difficult to work with and I was just speechless and thought that doesn't sound like the friend I know, that definitely doesn't sound like Kat, but I haven't seen her in months and months. .

I have no idea what's going on. her head I don't know what she's going through lately, so she also tells me the worst thing I've ever heard: a cat told the owner to stand up to the teasing I tried to steal an idea from himfrom the laboratory we both use. Like I felt like someone had slapped me in the face, someone I had known for so long, betraying me and lying about me and she had never done anything like that before or that I'm aware of, so this person told me this. I was devastated and I wanted you to get mad and text him right away but I said no, let me file this, let me take a deep breath, you haven't spoken in months and I'm just going to file it away and stay quiet so you guys have I had to understand when she texted me out of the blue talking about something she knew nothing about.

I was like I was in one. I thought: Is she real? This can't be what's happening and me. I was so sad that someone I cared about so much betrayed me like that, it was just horrible, so after seeing that my emotions were very mixed up and I blocked his number 100% cat, I have never judged your online character, I have never said that. There's something bad about you and I don't plan on doing it now. It just hurts me so much that you're telling people that I stole from you and then stole from the world. I think that's really the main issue here, so I'm going to hit some key points right now about all the things she said about me in the video about the makeup lab, about her ego, about how she thinks she, I guess, created me and I think that's very, very important because I sat there after I saw that and I thought who is such a bigoted testicle that they're going to say they basically created someone when I met her?

I was very big on her Myspace website. He had millions of followers. He was touring the world making music. someone acting like they invented me, that seems very offensive to me, so cat, you told everyone that you basically introduced me to the lab and your approval is the reason I walked in the door. What Gato did was that when I asked her about a lab, she gave me a sample of one of her products that was in a small bottle and said the name of the lab. She said this lab makes some formulas for me. Google them to see if you can get them.

At the meeting, she didn't call me. She didn't accompany me. the building I called I googled the number and contacted the owner and the creative director and her name is Judy, shout out to Judy, I love you and the rest was history so first we started by creating my liquid lip and they gave it to me. the most amazing formula, everything was a success and even though Cat wasn't investing in the brand, I found a mutual friend of someone who helped me get it all started so I think it's important to know because most people have never been inside to make a factory.

I don't know what's going on there when I'm there, you don't see what everyone else is doing. I know my lab makes a lot of big brands that are in Sephora, but when I'm on the floor and my stuff is working. and I have meetings there, everything is off the floor, you don't see what other people are doing. I didn't steal from you. I've never seen your stuff done there, so four reps go for it when they're working on a lot. of things now I think it is very important to know that I am an independent brand I am NOT owned by anyone this is one hundred percent Jeffrey there is no chain behind me there is no big machine now when she signed her makeup contract, she signed with the company Now it's called kendo, they're a company that makes Marc Jacob Beauty Bites Beauty Formula to my door For her, she has to fly to San Francisco and go to Sephora headquarters to see all of their samples, so mine is very popular and homegrown and I get things done much faster.

I can publish things very quickly, obviously, when you are a brand that is in a shopping center or a giant chain things are much more difficult and you have to go down different steps, so I never stole the formula, I never stole an idea, I never stole the name, that's all, just my brain is still, I can't understand it. so I find it offensive that she said she was trying to steal a lot of vegan money from me for knowing you for so long, cat you were never into until about a year ago. I think it's offensive that you're someone who believes in that and you've started changing your entire line to vegan, well I started my brand with all my products vegan and not because I personally am, it's because my followers contain a lot of better vegan people and I didn't want to not include them in being able to buy my products.

I also think it's safer for the eyes and lips to have slightly better ingredients and I think overall it was a simple decision. I'm not trying to do anything else other than cater to everyone, another thing that was very disturbing, she said she might go on a snapchat rant about tweeker and I wondered are you really going to imply that to your huge following of millions of people? I think it's very disappointing because like I mentioned other videos I hadn't even drank alcohol before I smoked marijuana every day I have a medical cart it's legal I love marijuana it takes away my anxiety I've never used crack meth coke I've never used a drug strong she is a strong drug user previously she is not sober which I think is amazing because alcohol and drugs can really ruin people and I commend her for being strong enough to eliminate that and for being a better person, so for her to turn around and say those comments really are profound and that really hurts me to think about someone like her who has been smoking cigarettes every day for 10 years to try to get rid of medical marijuana that in It actually helps a lot of people.

It's really unfair for as long as she's had a brand for two years. I think she has used my lipstick once in a photo, she always told me that Sephora has her legally bound and that she is not allowed to use any other brand that is not in Sephora, so she has always been a supportive friend to one hundred by one hundred. I will never take it away, but she has supported me. my mark not really at the beginning when she said there was no bullying or attacks, that was the whole video with small implements. Kat has been on a TV show with you for years.

She has received media training. She knows how to convey a message through implementation. certain things I'm going to watch the video. I was very horrified by all these things because, as I remember, yes, I can show a car. I love designer bags. I've been collecting bags, even when I was broke I would put in half a tank. of gas and I buy a Louie bag and that's how I live my life, who's to judge how you spend your money and how I spend my money, it's really nobody's business. I don't understand why she is trying to make it seem like a bad thing.

What I have nice things when she has had a Bentley a Tesla a closet full of a million dollars worth of clothes that is on Instagram and also showing for the last five years online so I think that is very hypocritical and I have never judged how you spend your money Kat please don't judge me, a lot of people who are attacking or voicing their opinion on social media haven't mentioned a really key part that BJ's vets haven't posted anything on social media until today, he has remained silently, so if he made my entire logo and all my packaging, why did anyone speak up two years later?

Don't you think they would sue me or there would be a lawsuit? Everything that is legal is public record and they can Google it and read it and read it online, so why do you think all of this is breaking out right now? I think it goes much further than a simple logo. I think there's a lot of malicious intent underlined and I think that's what hurts and breaks my heart the most, so let's go. Just say it one more time. Vijay has been paid if you still want to attack me and say crazy things, that's fine.

I can stand it. I'm a big girl and I know the

truth

. I just wanted to tell my side of the story. It was really hard for me to even process what was happening and right now I'm on a tour bus, I'm on the Vans Warped Tour, the Wi-Fi we're like in the middle of a field every day, so after this I'm going to edit it quickly and I will go to the hotel and use their Wi-Fi so if you are wondering why it took me so long I can collect my thoughts and emotions and I just want to say that even though all of this has happened in the public cat we have been friends for so long I still love you I'm not sure what you're going through personally but I wish you the best and the case is closed and I'm turning off comments on this video for First time on my channel I think the back and forth fights going back to strangers are so unnecessary.

These are my thoughts, my side of the story, my journey and what I've been through with this person, so I leave you all with a lot of love. I never imagined having a friendship breakup with someone so public. I'm sorry you had to waste your time watching this and I just wanted to tell my side of the story so I love you so much and I wish you all a good day