Rebecca Black Says She As soon as Obtained Scammed Into Endorsing Mexican Presidential Candidate!

Rebecca Black is opening up a couple of super-sketchy factor that occurred in her previous!

The notorious Friday singer first went viral along with her pre-teen hit greater than a decade in the past. And lately, along with working via her singing profession as a younger grownup, she’s additionally been trying again on viral fame.

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On Tuesday, she took to TikTok to recount one significantly embarrassing episode from her previous. The 25-year-old star set her video to the soundtrack of Nicki Minaj‘s tune Tremendous Freaky Woman, and sung together with the rhythm of the beat. In her sing-song story, Black recounted how she was 14 years outdated in about 2011 when she and her mom, Georgina Marquez Kelly, had been contacted by a “distant relative” dwelling in Mexico.

Black began off the story:

“One factor about me is my mother is a Mexican immigrant, and after I was 14 years outdated she acquired hit up by a distant household relative who advised her there was a Rebecca Black fan membership on this small city in Mexico, and so they additionally needed to offer me the keys to the town.”

With out contemplating that this “Rebecca Black Fan Membership” won’t be what it appeared, the singer recalled how she and her mom jumped onto a airplane for Mexico.

As soon as they acquired to the city, they confirmed as much as what they thought was going to be a meet-and-greet. Nevertheless, they had been taken right into a room with “an viewers of about 20 individuals,” all carrying matching t-shirts. Additionally they went into one other room, the place dozens of males in fits had been standing.

Rebecca recalled:

“They take us to some huge fancy home, after which they usher us right into a room filled with males in fits. I meet all of them. They sit me and my mother in entrance of the step-and-repeat with a desk and microphones. It form of seems to be like a press convention, and my mother is subsequent to me appearing as my translator.”

Folks out of the blue began asking Rebecca questions on politics and voting. Some individuals within the room requested questions on Enrique Peña Nieto, who was vying on the time to develop into Mexico’s subsequent President. Along with her mother appearing as translator, {the teenager} tried to play it cool:

“Folks within the crowd begin asking me questions, like, ‘How do you want Mexico?’ and ‘How do you are feeling about voting rights?’ and ‘How do you are feeling in regards to the presidential candidate of Mexico?’ on the time. So, I’m like, ‘Yeah, nice. He’s nice. Voting’s nice. I’m positive it’ll all be nice,’ not likely realizing what I’m speaking about.”

OMG!

It was solely after boarding her flight again to america that Black realized she could have been duped. She started fascinated about how she by no means acquired the keys to any metropolis, like she was initially promised.

She additionally defined how Twitter headlines began to tip her off that one thing was amiss:

“I’m scrolling on Twitter earlier than the flight takes off, and I begin seeing headlines about me and the way I’ve endorsed the presidential candidate of Mexico on the time. After which I notice that my complete household was simply scammed by this distant relative who labored for his presidential marketing campaign into endorsing the presidential candidate of Mexico on the time. And the world thinks I’ve performed it as a 14-year-old after I’ve by no means heard of this man in my life.”

Oh noooooo!

Watch her entire TikTok reveal (under):

@msrebeccablack

#onethingaboutme ????

♬ Tremendous Freaky Woman – Nicki Minaj

Not lengthy after Black’s unlucky encounter, Nieto gained his election, and served as Mexico’s sixty fourth president via November 2018. He endured low approval rankings throughout his time in workplace, although, and was accused by the Mexican Lawyer Normal’s Workplace of allegedly mishandling political contributions. He was even accused at one level of plagiarizing his legislation college thesis! So this was possibly not the very best search for Black to wade into approach again when.

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After all, she was simply 14 on the time, so there’s no query she was put into a really uncomfortable state of affairs.

Nonetheless, what an ungainly occasion!

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