Who is YouTube star Colleen Ballinger?

YOUTUBE star Colleen Ballinger has responded to "grooming" allegations.

Here's everything you need to know about controversial Miranda Sings performer Colleen Ballinger.

Who is Colleen Ballinger?

Colleen Mae Ballinger is a YouTuber and actress born on November 21, 1986, in Santa Barbara, California.

Ballinger became famous after she debuted her Internet character, Miranda Sings, on YouTube in 2009.

Miranda Sings quickly became a hit across the social media platform.

Ballinger's YouTube account has garnered over 10.7million subscribers.

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The star eventually started performing live comedy shows as Miranda Sings.

In 2015, she won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Web Star: Comedy and a Streamy Award for Best Actress for her character.

Her online persona has landed her cameos in an array of projects, including Nickelodeon's Victorious and Ariana Grande's Thank U, Next music video.

In 2016, Ballinger received her own Netflix show called Haters Back Off in which she starred as Miranda Sings. The series lasted two seasons before it was canceled.

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In 2018, Ballinger voiced a character under her first name in the movie Ralph Breaks the Internet.

She also voiced Roxanne in the 2019 film The Angry Birds Movie 2.

What are the accusations against Colleen Ballinger?

On June 28, 2023, Ballinger responded to grooming allegations against her in a video - nearly a month after allegedly disturbing messages between her and under-aged fans surfaced.

Allegations were made against her by fellow content creator Adam McIntyre, who claimed in 2020 that Ballinger "groomed" and used him for content when he was a minor.

McIntyre said: "She asked me what my favorite sex position is.

"Now, if that doesn’t validate any of the stories that she would be talking openly about her sex with her ex-husband to me, then I don’t know what will."

Ballinger responded to the allegation while strumming her instrument: "Even though my team has strongly advised me to not say what I wanna say, I recently realized that they never said I couldn’t sing what I wanna say."

She revealed she would chat to fans at the beginning of her career but had stopped doing that now, and slammed the "toxic gossip train."

The caption of her video read: "I do not condone or support any kind of online bullying or hate towards anyone. ever."

Ballinger previously denied the grooming allegations in a May 2020 video titled "addressing everything."

In the video, Ballinger did not name McIntyre but made references to his April 2020 video and the allegations he made against her.

She said, in part: "Someone had made a video saying some shocking and hurtful things about me and a lot of you wanted me to address it."

Ballinger received backlash for taking multiple weeks to respond to McIntyre's video.

She claimed that the delayed response time was because she messaged McIntyre about the allegations in private, saying she was "very shocked and confused."

"I expressed I didn't know what they were talking about and I also expressed frustration that they were trying to bring my son's name into their drama.

Like McIntyre also shared in his video, Ballinger shared screenshots of messages between the two.

She claimed: "But it has gotten to a point where there are so many rumors and lies and speculations around that I feel like I need to address it."

Ballinger admitted that McIntyre had access to her Miranda Sings account but said it was "for one day," denying it was for years as McIntyre had claimed.

"Over the years, I loved asking my fans for advice on what I should post for Miranda videos, Miranda tweets, things like that."

She said that McIntyre asked her if he could assist with her social media which she thought was "really sweet" but said that "most of the time, I did not engage in those conversations."

McIntyre claimed there was a "smear campaign" by Ballinger after her supporters silenced his backlash.

Ballinger continued: "I care about [McIntyre] so much, just like I care about all my fans that I've interacted with over the years, and I wish him nothing but success and happiness and love."

Ballinger is now facing more allegations of inappropriate conduct and has been accused of racism.

April Korto Quioh, a former writer's assistant, showrunner's assistant, and writer's PA on Haters Back Off, published a newsletter on June 30, 2023, in which she detailed Ballinger's alleged inappropriate and racist behavior.

According to the newsletter, per Buzzfeed, she wrote, in part: "Another one of my responsibilities was to sit in on production meetings (all virtual, as the writers’ room was in LA and filming was to take place in Vancouver), and take notes.

"It was in those meetings that I had to document Colleen’s insistence that we used limited POC background actors as the show took place in Washington and having them just randomly there would be 'distracting.'

"I took note as Colleen was shown an Asian food market that would be re-dressed as a bodega for the show and watched her disgust as she demanded assurance that all the 'Asian s***' would be removed before filming."

She later claimed: "Content of the show aside, it was difficult to work for Colleen. She had a knack for making 'funny,' biting comments about the people around her and since we all had her to thank for our jobs, we were forced to just go with it.

"She saw no issue with commenting on my hair, or my clothes, or asking about my personal life. Her lack of boundaries was remarkable."

Quioh also alleged: "I recall overhearing her once brag that a creator was being 'canceled' for saying the n-word (and if you think she went with 'n-word' instead of hitting that hard 'r' then you haven’t been paying attention) and that she would never be stupid enough to get caught doing something like that."

The U.S. Sun has reached out to Ballinger's representatives for comment.

Who is in Colleen Ballinger's family?

Ballinger has three children with her husband, Erik Stocklin.

In 2018, they welcomed their first child, a son named Flynn Timothy.

On November 6, 2021, Ballinger announced that she gave birth to twins; a boy named Wesley Koy and a daughter named Maisy Joanne.

"My sweet babies decided to come early," she said on her Instagram page, and directed fans to watch her YouTube video.

She said in the video: "That was crazy. We couldn’t film it.

"It was too fast, too hectic, too scary. It was really insane. I’m OK.

"They are OK, but they’re going to be in the NICU for a little."

Ballinger found out she was pregnant on April 16, 2021. She learned she was having twins after she had an emergency ultrasound following some complications.

She said in the video: "I've been crying all morning thinking I had no baby and I have two babies!"

The announcement of her pregnancy came after her miscarriage in February 2021.

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Ballinger married Stocklin, an actor from New Jersey, in 2018.

Prior to her union with Stocklin, Ballinger was married to YouTuber Joshua David Evans. The couple filed for divorce in 2016 after one year of marriage.

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