A couple of years ago, an unlikely feud sprouted up between JoJo Siwa and Candace Cameron Bure, wherein Siwa referred to Cameron Bure as the “rudest” celebrity she’d ever met in a TikTok video.
In the video, Siwa reveals the “nicest,” “coolest,” and “rudest” celebrities she’s interacted with, and showed a picture of Cameron Bure when she chose her.
During a recent episode of Siwa’s “JoJo Siwa Now” podcast, she addressed the very public beef with the two of them and admitted she “started this on accident,” saying the two had “no real beef at the time.”
“She wasn’t nice to me when I met her,” she said. “That doesn’t mean she’s an awful rude person. That just means she was the rudest person I ever met… She just wasn’t nice to me as a kid. It’s literally fine.”
After the video unexpectedly went viral, Siwa said she was hoping people would take more note of the shade she threw at a company who “did me dirty,” but that people focused instead on her comments about Cameron Bure.
“I did feel bad because we do have some mutual friends,” she said. Although she felt bad, after Siwa “found out some things about Candace,” she decided her feelings were “pretty valid.”
“I found out some shady things that she has done and some shady organizations she has worked with," she said. "It goes back to wanting to stand up for my people, but not wanting to create drama that doesn’t necessarily need to be there.”
Although she didn’t divulge in the “shady organizations,” Cameron Bure is known for being pretty vocal about her religious beliefs, and was among the flocks of people who attacked a scene from the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony involving drag queens.
Siwa also admitted she and Cameron Bure talked it out and that “she was honestly pretty sweet to me about it.” After they patched things up, Cameron Bure "tried to give me reassurance on how she supports the LGBTQ community,” but that her subsequent comments about how LGBTQ marriage isn’t “traditional” struck another cord.
“It’s totally fine to make a movie about straight marriage,” she said. “But she was basically calling gay marriage not traditional, and gay marriage weird. Whether she meant to do that or not, she still did it. We’re doing all this work to be more visible and to be more out there for kids that are in the next generation to feel more normal, and it’s hard when you have a person with a big platform like that who just says sh*t like that.”
Although the two have mostly mulled things over and Siwa said she was just being “stupid and messy” at the time, the entire discussion also came about when she listed Cameron Bure as one of the five people she refuses to have on her show.