JoJo Siwa said company president was bothered when came out to her “young demographic”

Out teen pop performer JoJo Siwa recently revealed that the president of an unnamed company reacted badly when she publicly came out over two years ago. Nickelodeon, one of her former employers, said the incident “certainly did not happen” there.

In a March 23 TikTok video, Siwa wrote that after she came out in January 2021, the company she worked for said it needed to have a meeting with her “ASAP.”

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“During this meeting, the PRESIDENT of the company negatively asked me ‘what are you gonna tell your young demographic,’” Siwa wrote in her video. “I took a second to process what I was just asked, and then… I replied… ‘THE TRUTH,’ I’ve never seen a man roll his eyes so far in the back of his head.”

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“It was silent so I started talking again,” she continued. “I said ‘I’m not gonna hide who I am and who I love to anyone, ESPECIALLY to the next generation.’ He didn’t like that very much.”

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Siwa’s video ended with her writing, “However, since I came, out SO many adults say to me ‘I wish I had someone like you when I was younger.’ Which reminds me every time that I did the right thing and to never let ANYONE change who you are.”

In her video, Siwa danced and lip-synched the words to LGBTQ-ally Megan Trainor’s new song “Mother.” The song states, ” Mr. Big boy, pulling up in your big toy / Sayin’ all that blah, blah, blah / Makin’ all that big noise / ‘Cause you’re so frustrated, emasculated / ‘Cause you got your sh*t called out by this little lady / Yet your opinion’s so strong / Even when you’re wrong / Bet that feels like power to you / Must’ve forgot who you’re talkin’ to.”

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