Jojo Siwa is Getting Exposed For Toxic Behavior

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00:00I will not tolerate my mom being treated bad. Ever.

00:04Especially by someone who I've only known for five weeks.

00:08You're not going to sit in the studio, pout in the corner,

00:10be a bitch to my mom, and then expect me to like you.

00:14Forgive and forget is a thing. For me, I don't forget.

00:18Jojo Siwa promised them pop stardom. They say they were thrown in the trash.

00:23This article from Rolling Stone is putting Jojo Siwa at the center of controversy once again.

00:28In 2021, Jojo Siwa and her mom, Jessalyn, starred in a reality show,

00:33Siwa's Dance Pop Revolution. The show was a competition series pitting young girls

00:37against each other to see who would be allowed to join the band XOMG Pop.

00:42Jojo was supposed to be a role model for the girls, and Jessalyn, their manager.

00:46It turned out behind the scenes, things were not so great.

00:49People started paying attention after nearly half of the members of XOMG Pop left the group.

00:54So what led to this mass exodus?

00:56For starters, according to ex-XOMG Pop members and their parents,

01:01the girls were not even told they'd be on a competition show at all.

01:04They thought they would be welcomed into a band,

01:05and the show surrounding them would focus on their rise to fame.

01:09Additionally, ex-members are claiming that Jojo Siwa, her mom, and producers of the show

01:13created a hostile and toxic environment.

01:16Allegedly, Jojo would pit members against each other and play obvious favorites.

01:20Allegedly, Jojo's mother was abusive to the girls.

01:23According to one of the sources close to the production,

01:26an adage among some of the producers on set was,

01:29it's not a good day unless you make a kid cry.

01:32One girl was forced to perform shortly after receiving surgery on her spine,

01:36despite her doctor telling her she absolutely should not.

01:39When the girl started bleeding out of her belly button, she was not allowed to stop,

01:43and was instead told to put a maxi pad over the bleeding so she wouldn't ruin her costume.

01:48The grueling pace the girls were forced to work came at the expense of everything,

01:51including school.

01:53The girls in XOMG Pop worked nine hours every day,

01:56and allegedly received six hours of schooling a month.

01:59Despite these long hours, the girls' work often went unpaid.

02:03Any social media work simply didn't result in payment.

02:06Additionally, the girls' families were forced to pay for travel,

02:08lodging, and food out of their own pocket without reimbursement.

02:12One mother and her daughter ended up sleeping on a blow-up mattress in a dance studio.

02:16The mothers were so short on funds, one mother alleges,

02:18that at one point she started working directly for Jessalyn herself.

02:22She was tasked with organizing JoJo's closet and scrubbing her toilet in her home for $20 an hour.

02:28JoJo Siwa and her mom didn't respond to comment,

02:30but their lawyer claims that all of the previously mentioned claims are false,

02:34and that the Siwas did nothing wrong.

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