WWhen a breakup occurs between two content creators, the ensuing drama is almost certain to play out online and in public. The former couple conveyed their relationship to fans, giving the public the feeling that they are on this journey together. So when it ends, creators feel obligated to keep them informed – as seen in Tearful video of David Dobrik and Liza Koshy’s breakup. Or, if one party feels slighted, they will criticize the other person on their platform. A recent tiff between two popular creators, singer Clinton Kane and YouTuber and podcast host Brook Schofield is turning heads as Schofield calls out Kane for a series of dramatic lies.
Schofield is best known for co-hosting Canceled with YouTuber Tana Mongeau, a podcast known for its hosts’ complete honesty and directly addressing bad actors in the influencer community. In an episode posted on July 10, Schofield said that Kane, whom she dated for three months, lied about the deaths of her mother and brother and faked her Australian accent, among other fabrications.
Kane responded to his claims in a series of videos posted on Saturday, prompting both sides to argue about the details of their relationship in several TikToks that received millions of views, as viewers tuned in to see each creator plead their case.
Here’s everything you need to know about the drama between Clinton Kane and Brooke Schofield.
Clinton Kane instigates drama with a TikTok
Kane uploaded a TikTok on June 24 to promote his new song, and the video’s text reads, “When you break up two years ago but she won’t stop blabbing,” referring to Schofield talking about her ex-boyfriend on podcasts in recent months. His video quickly racked up over 7.3 million views.
In response, Schofield posted a series of videos about what she says were Kane’s many lies to her. In the first video, she is seen in a robe listening to his song and the caption reads, “Rage bait is working, please stream this song and all profits go to his mother.”
Schofield’s caption refers to Kane saying during a July 2022 Interview with Zach Sang that his mother, brother and father died in the same year and that one of his songs was about the loss of his mother. In April 2023, Sang invited Schofield’s co-host Tana Mongeauon your program to talk about Canceled. During the conversation, Sang stated that Kane lied about his mother’s death. Mongeau corroborated the claim, saying that Kane had posted an Instagram post at the time in which he said he was not talking about his real mother, but a deceased person who was a “mother figure” to him.
Kane’s initial video led Schofield to release a 16-part video series on June 26, which has garnered more than 121.4 million views. In the videos, she breaks down every important moment in their relationship, from their first date to their breakup.
Schofield’s response to Kane
In the series, Schofield goes through a list of lies Kane has told her and her followers over the years. They met because she was a fan of his, she says, and he invited her to a concert where they met, hung out and began their relationship.
They started dating at the height of COVID and quarantined together, but she says warning signs started to emerge as she tried to go home, buy new clothes and reset after spending so much time with him. She says he started to feel insecure and asked if he could go with her.
Schofield also says he lied about his age after they traveled together and handed over his driver’s license, only to reveal he was two years younger than he told her. She says they had fights that apparently weren’t motivated by anything. “It became a situation where I was this man’s mother, and if I did something wrong… he would go crazy because he was a baby,” she says in the video. “It was too much for me to handle.”
She adds that she overheard a conversation between him and his manager asking them to cancel the interview with Zach Sang. While watching the video, she read several comments accusing him of lying about his mother’s death and confronting him about the lie.
“He made me feel horrible for accusing him of lying about something like that,” she says in a video. “I felt so disgusting and so guilty. I thought I was going crazy.”
Then, she found out that he was cheating on her with several people and they broke up. Although she confronted him again about lying about her mother’s death, Kane maintained that she was telling the truth. Schofield then told him that she had been in contact with his mother (which was not true) and said that was when he admitted that she had lied, although he maintained that she was not lying about her mother’s death. Kane did not immediately respond to a request for comment. According to a statement Kane’s team sent to Rolling Stonethe person he was referring to in the clip was “a very special mother figure in his adolescence, who unfortunately passed away.”
“Clinton regrets the way this devastating news was communicated at the time,” the statement read. “Clinton genuinely felt he had lost an irreplaceable mother figure. Clinton was and is largely estranged from his immediate family.”
“The public repetition of these details is merely an attempt to gain attention and focus on Brooke’s podcast, at the expense of trashing another ex-boyfriend — a tactic she has become known for.”
On July 10, Schofield and Mongeau spoke about the situation in Canceled. Schofield shared that she was upset with Sang for appearing to take advantage of their close friendship to be the first to break the news about Kane lying about his mother’s death.
According to Schofield, she tried to bury the story so that no one would discover the situation with her ex-boyfriend. After Mongeau’s interview with Sang, Schofield texted him requesting that he not publicize the part of the conversation about Kane’s lies because she was not prepared for it to be revealed. Sang aired the episode with this discussion included.
Schofield says that a few months later she was invited to an interview with Sang that never aired. This interview, says Schofield, was supposed to be about her, but the questions she received were about “just Clinton Kane.”
Kane Launches His Own 30-Part TikTok Video Series
Kane shared his side of the story on Saturday with a multi-part video series on TikTok, where he disabled comments on all videos. He sits solemnly in what appears to be a hotel room to go over each point Schofield makes in his videos and tell his side of the story. In it, he points out some inconsistencies in Brooke’s story about their relationship, including the length of time they spent together and the exact day they made it official.
He also addressed Zach Sang’s interview in a video, saying, “There was a belief in my heart that no one would understand or understand. And when people asked, like, ‘Why are you so upset? Who died?’ I started telling them I was my mother. Because my mother was absent most of my life, and in a crazy way, it felt like she was the one who passed away. This is horrible, I know.
He goes on to say that he was “ashamed of this mother figure” and his mother. “I was a punk kid who gave a stupid answer on a podcast when I was working through an anxiety disorder and had nothing to do with it until I was okay with all the feelings I was having,” he says.
He also addressed confusion over his accent in one of many videos uploaded on Saturday. He explains that he was born in the Philippines and then moved around a lot while growing up. His ambiguous accent is a result of this, says Kane. “At 19, when I moved to America for music, my label and my team needed a place to tell them where I was from,” he says in the video. , I chose Australia, because, honestly, it was a beautiful memory, and that’s where I spent my formative years. I adopted it by just saying I was from Australia, because I didn’t want to list all 10 places I’ve lived. come in and tell the story of my life every time I made small talk with a stranger.
The consequences of Kane’s videos
Kane’s videos were met with some backlash from viewers, as many noted that he was arguing about semantics rather than taking responsibility for misleading people.
Schofield then posted a second set of videos, which have accumulated more than 39.8 million views, covering his most recent videos and offering his opinion on them. Schofield did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The drama prompted other TikTok creators to offer their opinions. Tefi Pessoa, a popular TikToker and friend of Schofield, directly addressed Kane in a video.
“I think people want to understand why you’re putting in the effort. It’s because the hole is too deep. You’re losing your mind,” she says in the video. “These little nitpicky things you do are scaring me because you’re starting to believe it now.”
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