Madison Beer just lately spoke out about being victimized by means of her Snapchat videos being leaked as a minor. She tells all in a podcast interview.

CW: suicide mention

Over the previous decade or so, other people have been in a position to achieve status and acclaim on the internet nearly in a single day. Whether you're the face of a new meme or change into an internet sensation with your content material, lightning can strike in miraculous style as the web claims you as its latest and biggest megastar.

Of route, the age of the internet additionally signifies that even dangerous news and your personal conversations can unfold like wildfire prior to you even know it. Madison Beer is aware of that better than maximum.

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Madison Beer is a well-liked singer who first won attention in 2012 when one among her many track covers used to be shared by way of Justin Bieber. She would subsequently liberate her own debut single, "Melodies" in 2013 to kick off her personal music career. She has since released several albums and gave the impression as a part of the virtual League of Legends band Ok/DA while additionally appearing on presentations like RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race.

Recently, however, she unfolded about her harrowing revel in with her Snapchat videos.

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Madison Beer spread out about her old Snapchat videos in a podcast interview.

In the April 19, 2023 episode of Call Her Daddy, Madison Beer spoke with podcast host Alex Cooper about a traumatizing moment in her teen years when explicit videos that she had despatched to any individual have been leaked online. According to Madison, she were messaging a boy she liked from her native land as her tune career began to take off. The two of them were using Snapchat on the time and Madison despatched her former overwhelm videos of herself thinking that they might be deleted shortly after being despatched.

Much to her horror, she would later discover that he had been using an app called Snapsave, which saves any Snapchat content in your camera roll as soon as you open it.

"I just didn't think that the person I was sending this stuff to would remotely ever think to do something like that because this is someone I've known my whole life," Madison admitted. "I was wrong, obviously."

She later discovered that her videos were leaked from someone else who knowledgeable her that her photos used to be online.

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The videos ultimately made their strategy to Twitter, Vine, and several other assets, sending Madison into "crisis mode". Madison had attempted to succeed in out to the person she had despatched videos to, however they temporarily blocked her.

"I just [felt] powerless in the moment," she persisted. "I'm just sitting and typing my name in quotation marks on Twitter to see everything that people are saying about me."

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The ensuing trauma had driven her to try suicide twice. While she is now grateful that the attempts have been unsuccessful, she now takes situations like this very critically.

"My life was almost over," she informed Call Her Daddy. "I almost died. I was almost dead because of all of this and it's a lot to comprehend."

She reportedly still stays traumatized by way of the incident and has since worked to control her psychological health. She finds lots more in her new memoir, The Half of It, due out on April 25.

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