JoJo Siwa Doesn’t Regret Candace Cameron Bure Beef: ‘I Gotta Stand Up For My People’

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Jojo Siwa admitted that she was “okay” calling out Candace Cameron Bure, especially aft the Fuller House actress faced overmuch backlash for comments astir the LGBTQIA+ community. Jojo, 20, opened up astir her beef with Candace, 47, successful a caller podcast interrogation on The Viall Files podcast connected Thursday, July 27.

Jojo explained that arsenic Candace faced backlash from the LGBTQ+ assemblage implicit comments she’d made astir “keep[ing] accepted matrimony astatine the core” of movies she was making, she felt similar her choler astatine her was justified. “I privation she was capable to beryllium a small much open, much accepting,” she told host Nick Viall. “I’m good with calling her retired the mode I did. For a while, I regretted it. But, aft I recovered retired that nonfiction astir her not wanting thing to bash with LGBQTIA, that’s my people. You cognize what I mean? I gotta basal up for my people. That’s messed up.”

After a shaper work Candace’s comments from her Wall Street Journal interview, Jojo pointed retired precisely what she took contented with. “Why is LGBTQIA not allowed to beryllium good, loving, Christian? You tin beryllium cheery and look up to the Lord! Why not? That’s wherever it’s like, ‘Homegirl, conscionable spell marque your movie,'” she said.

Jojo and Candace’s feud began erstwhile the Dance Moms alum claimed that Candace was the “rudest celebrity” she had met successful a July 2022 TikTok. She claimed that the Fuller House star had snubbed her for a photo connected a reddish carpet erstwhile she was a preteen. While Jojo shaded the histrion a fewer times amid their archetypal beef, they seemed similar they yet moved past it erstwhile Candace eventually apologized.

Jojo opened up astir her feud with Cameron successful a caller interview. (Sara Jaye Weiss/Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

The feud was reignited erstwhile Candace spoke astir partnering with the Great American Family transmission successful a WSJ interview successful November 2022. At the time, she said the transmission would “keep accepted matrimony astatine the core,” which galore believed to beryllium a flimsy against Hallmark for including much LGBTQ+ couples successful their films. Jojo criticized her erstwhile again. “You not liking cheery marriage, bash your happening girl. You being religious, bash your happening girl. Of course, I would privation everybody to bash what they privation to do. But to purposely exclude idiosyncratic due to the fact that of who they love, that’s sh**ty,” Jojo said successful a People interview aft the fact. Following the backlash, Candace released a statement saying she “loves” each people.

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