Jeffree Star Is Healing: Trauma and a Problematic Past (Part 2)
Going Mental with Eileen Kelly
Eileen Kelly
4.8 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This is the second episode in a two-part series.
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. |
| 0:25.8 | On today's episode, I am back for the second part of my interview with Jeffrey |
| 0:36.0 | Starr. Jeffrey Starr is an American YouTubeer, makeup artist, former singer-songwriter |
| 0:40.9 | and the founder of Jeffrey Star Cosmetics. |
| 0:43.2 | He started out as the most followed person on MySpace before launching a lucrative YouTube |
| 0:48.7 | Beauty Guru career and then launching his cosmetics line. |
| 0:54.0 | He has had over 2.5 billion views on the platform |
| 0:59.0 | and is one of the most well-known YouTube Beauty Stars. |
| 1:05.0 | You had this awful car crash. |
| 1:07.0 | I did. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm laughing because it's been two years now. |
| 1:09.0 | Wait, what's the date? |
| 1:10.0 | April 16th was, it'll be two years. |
| 1:12.0 | So in a week. week yeah come on memories so I got a little free roller coaster ride is my introduction to Wyoming |
| 1:18.1 | But that was it was not yeah, I hit black ice |
| 1:34.0 | worst and ever and I had in Michigan. I was, you know, it wasn't speeding and I went down a snow bank and hitting the bank flipped my car and I never flipped a car before, know and it was it was crazy. Did you feel like you were gonna die? No it happened so fast it was just the excruciating pain |
| 1:41.1 | I partially broke my back I cracked two vertebrae and it was nuts but |
| 1:45.7 | the like vertigo of a car is spinning and flipping was insane but it was just over so fast and then my neighbor found us on the side of the road |
| 1:58.0 | Is nuts and you also said in some interview that a lot of people said like some not so nice things. |
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