Jeffree Star Is Healing: Trauma and a Problematic Past (Part 1)

Going Mental with Eileen Kelly

Eileen Kelly

Eileenkelly, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Mentalhealth

4.8 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jeffree Star is a YouTuber, makeup artist, and the founder of Jeffree Star Cosmetics. He first gained notoriety on MySpace as the most-followed person on the platform. He is one of YouTube's most famous beauty influencers with over 15 million subscribers and over 2 billion views. Since then, he’s been involved in dozens of controversies — and accused of racism and bullying. Jeffree and Eileen discuss his problematic past, his traumatic upbringing including his parent's addictions, his father's suicide, therapy, and leaving LA for a yak ranch in Wyoming.

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0:00.0	Welcome to going mental. This is your host, I'm Eileen Kelly. I'm interested in the things many of us face but don't always talk about.
0:09.0	On the show, not only will I be sharing more about my own anxietyieties and depression, but I'm also going to be talking to a wide range of guests about their own mental health journeys.
0:18.0	Along with professionals, we're going to help educate you and me on the ins and outs of mental illness.
0:23.6	Can't wait for you to hear what's in store.
0:25.6	On today's episode, I'm joined by Jeffrey Starr. He is an American
0:37.4	Youtuber, Makeup Mogul, former singer-songwriter, and the founder and owner of
0:42.4	Jeffrey Starr Cosmetics. singer-songwriter and the founder and owner of Jeffrey Star cosmetics. He first
0:45.4	gained prominence as the most followed person on My Space and he is best known as
0:52.2	one of the top-follow gurus on YouTube with over 15 million subscribers and 2.5 billion views.
1:03.0	Yes, pink lighting.
1:06.0	Yes, pink lights.
1:07.0	Imagine I show up here with a beard and my farmer outfit on,
1:09.5	is covered in yack shit.
1:11.0	Hey y'all! Even when I'm out there covered in shit and snow I'm always wearing Louis.
1:19.6	Check check, check.
1:20.6	Am I alive?
1:21.6	Hey y'all?
1:24.0	That's my real voice.
1:26.0	I just hide it all these years.
1:28.0	I know I look nuts but I don't party.
1:31.0	You know I've never drank, right?
1:33.7	I've never tried alcohol.
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