December 5, 2023 • 38 mins
JoJo answers ALL of your burning questions!Find out who she's dated this year, what it was like for her to come out to her family and how Lady Gaga was involved, how she got to perform with G Flip, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Jojosuwan now with me Jojo Siua and
iHeartRadio podcast. Oh, this is gonna be a fun one.
I'm actually I'm really excited for this. So we've welcome back,
first of all, to Jojo Sua. Now I am Jojo
Siwa and this is me. Now. I feel like I
need some sort of official intro. You know, when I
was a kid and I did YouTube, I head, hey,
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everyone is joy on, welcome, But I feel like Jojosuwan
now I need like a like solid I say this
every time, or maybe I don't because you know, I'm
different now, so maybe that's the whole point of not
having Ninja. I don't know. Anyways, not the point of today.
Point of today is I am doing a Q and
A for the first time since I stopped doing JoJo's
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Juice years ago. I just have this thing on my
YouTube channel called JoJo's Juice where every Wednesday and answer
questions off of Twitter and then I would pour a
different juice on my head. So you gotta juice on
my life and then juice over my head. Today you
are getting the juice on my life, but you are
not getting the juice over my head, and mainly because
this is audio. But uh, even if it was video,
believe it or not, I wouldn't do that anymore. That's
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such a lie. I so would. I love Jo Justice.
That was so fun. Anyways, Hi, welcome back to Jon
just one Now today, I am so stoked. You know,
We've had a lot of podcasts now where I've had
my friends on, We've gotten to talk about our shared experiences.
Sother that'd be TV shows, life experiences, learning curves, all
the things. But today we are taking it right back
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to the roots. Now we are gonna do a straight
up Q and A. I asked you guys for questions
on my Instagram at it's Jojasiwa. You sent them in
and I got lots of good questions to answer, and
I tried my best to pick a variety of questions,
you know, throughout career things to personal things, to advise
things to also things that just were things that I
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haven't talked about necessarily, or answers that are much deeper
than just a quick, little one sentence. So buckle up,
because we're gonna we're gonna get real deep. We're gonna
get really deep right now. And I I don't even
know if I'm coy ready for this, but here we go.
We're starting off so strong. At JoJo's Underscore, paparazzi asked
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if you had kids, what would you name them? And
I when I saw this question, I specifically flagged it
because I am so in love with my idea for
kids right now. For their names. All three of my
kids will have the same middle name, and their middle
name will just be E, just the letter E and
all of their names. So I would love to have triplets,
two boys, one girl. That's like my ideal right now.
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Of course, all I want is healthy babies, but right
now I'm in a phase where I want triplets, two boys,
one girl. The girl's name is fred E because Freddie
with the E initial. Then the two boys are ted
and Ed. So I'll have Freddy, Eddie and Teddy. I
am obsessed with there right now. I just the idea
of being like fred ed ted Come here, Freddie, Eddie Teddy,
Like where am I? Where's Freddy Eddie and Teddy? Like
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I just uh, I think decorating the room and like
putting their little names Freddy, Eddie Teddy, like, I just
think it's so cute but fred E ted E ed E,
I don't know. I just think it's cute anyways. Oh gosh,
my poor kids. Oh I'm so excited to have babies
one day. It's gonna be the best. But Kansei se
Whenater asked what moment in time would you like to
relive slash do again, this is a question that I
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think about actually all the time, because there's been so
many amazing faces in my life. I mean, of course,
Dance Moms, Abby's Ultimate dance Competition, Dancing with the Stars,
Special Forces, as hard and torturess as it was, I
would love to live it again. Think if I could
pick a time of my life that I would only
relive again, it would actually be Special Forces only because
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it was so short. You know. Special Forces was about
a week long, little over a week long, and so
the fact that it was so quick, you know, Dancing
with the Stars is seventy five days, Dance Ang was
two years. I got to really soak it up. But
I feel like those projects for me would be would
be my like winner. I think special Forces also, though
Dream the Tour era, I loved being on tour. My
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concert tour was my favorite thing ever. I think if
I could time travel, I'd go to like Top of
twenty nineteen, because then I would relive Dream the Tour again,
real live Dancing to the Stars, relive mess Singer, relive
Special Forces, relive coming out, relive falling in love for
the first time. Like I'd get to relive all of
my best moments. So I feel like I feel like
that would be my vibe. Top of twenty nineteen. Ooh,
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Kaylee Kaylee's sixty four Kaylee sixty four Underscore, There we go,
There so he us name. Kaylee sixty four Underscore asked
would you ever have any x's on the podcast? This question?
I actually was so interested by my own inner thoughts
because instantly my thought was like, yes, I totally would.
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But then I was like, but wait, who, which one
and and and why? And what would you talk about?
And I don't, I don't, I don't know. I my
initial answer is yes, because I would. I would welcome
anybody to come on jojyesy and now that would be
willing to talk about their life experiences and things they've
gone through. And I think something about me, is I
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really choose to look at my past and be grateful
for it and so even though you know, obviously, because
I'm not with any of them anymore and they're all
my exes, even though things didn't work out between us, truly,
I am so grateful for each and every one of
them because they I mean, I'm speaking like I have
fifty I have really two real ones. I have like
three fake ones, but like two real ones. And the
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thing is is like they both came into my life
for a reason, and I'm very very grateful for that.
They both taught me a lot of lessons, and they
both taught me a lot of experience, and I'm very
grateful for everyone that's come on to my bus and
hopped on and hopped off. But the reality of it
is is I'm so young, only twenty years old, and
you know, my first relationship start when I was seventeen,
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my second when I was nineteen, And so the thought
of like it's it's okay where young, like life moves
on and like odds are a teenage couple isn't gonna
work out. And so I think I have a really
clear perspective on like it's okay, there doesn't need to
be bad blood. Obviously, a lot more went on that
than the world sees on the internet, and that can
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get kind of hard to see because you kind of
get wrapped up in what the internet thinks. But yeah, no,
I'm not not opposed to having my ex's on the podcast.
I don't think I think I'd be really stressed the
day that they're here, But yeah, I think it'd be
kind of interesting. Maybe not anytime soon. I feel like
I need like a year to prep for that. Levia
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Elizabeth asked, have you gone to therapy like that wasn't
required by Special Forces? This question I thought was super
important to answer. I haven't. I never have. I've been
on a lot of dramatic TV shows, Dance Moms, we
had a set psychiatrist who was there for us if
we ever needed her. Never needed her, but she was
always there. And then Special Forces we have required therapy.
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I'm pretty sure I'm done with all the therapy. I
might have to do more towards the end anyways, But
you for Forces the therapy. I actually didn't think I
was gonna need it. I was like, ah, I'm chilling,
I'm good. Then once trailers and stuff started to come
out and I started to see things again, I was like, ooh, hey, buddy,
can we do a chat? Like I did really need
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it and it was the first time in my life
that I ever felt like I needed to talk to somebody.
I don't know. I feel like I have a really
really good support system around me, and I think that
if you are comfortable enough to be able to chat
with your your friends and family about your life, then
that's a blessing. But also sometimes it's the right step
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is to get professional and professional help and a professional therapist.
But for me personally, I don't know. I've just kind
of found my right dynamic in my own skin with
my friends, with my family, and I've never gone to therapy.
I think I need it. I think I should go.
I think I have a lot that I don't even
realize that I just keep inside me. But I don't know.
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I just it's never been something that It's never been
a can of worms that I've opened, and I I
don't know if it ever will be, But if it
ever is, then hey it is, there's nothing wrong with it.
What was your favorite dance that you did in Dancing
with the Stars. That is from Lily Beth twenty five
oh one. Hey, Lily Beth favorite dancing with the Stars Dance,
I mean gosh, I watched the Dancing with the Stars
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dances all the time, So we got are You Gonna
Be My Girl? Which was our quick step. We had
our rain on me Cha Cha, Argentine tango, Hit Me
Baby One More Time, Viennie's waltz to Dreams with Your
Heartmakes Pas do Blay to Disney's Descendants Ways to Be Wicked,
What do we do? After that? After that was Sandy
and Frenchy, which was a foxtrot for Greece, and then
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we did Next. The next week was Pennywise, which was
our jazz anything Goes. The next week was Queen Weeks,
so we did tango to Body Language and then another
foxtrot and the relay to under Pressure. So that was
Janet Jackson week, where we did a salset of feedback
and we did That's the Way I Love Goes. We
had a rumbach dance I Love and then it was
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uh Semi Finals weeks. We had an Argentine tango to
a song called Santa Maria, and we had our contemporary
to anything Not Anything Goes Before You Goes what that
one was called? And then the finale we had our
freestyle of Born This Way and Our Cha Shat Tango
fusion too. I don't care, I love it, gosh. My
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favorite is probably between Sandy and Frenchy Foxtrot. I really
loved the feeling of that dance. Wasn't necessarily my favorite
Steps to Do, Steps to Do. I love Pennywise and
I love Our Contemporary because those dances just they felt
so comfortable for me because I'd done them before. You know,
I grew up being a competitive dancer and so, but
not anything ballroom, so any ballroom styles, Latin styles that
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that was out of my comfort zone. But when it
came time to do contemporary and jazz, you know, I
I had done that before, never partnering, but I knew
what I was getting myself into. So probably those two
in Sanmium Frenchy, those were those are my favorites. What
did Special Forces make you realize so much? Special Forces?
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This question comes from Ambar Underscore Basketball special Forces. I mean,
it really did make me realize so much. It made
me realize the things that I cared about, the people
that I cared about, what mattered to me, what didn't
matter to me? Uh, I don't know. I think I
had I had a very I've always had a pretty
clear perspective on life, and I've always kind of been
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able to see bigger picture and things. But I think
maybe in Special Forces I was actually able to see
the smaller picture of like, hey, look, maybe the future
doesn't matter so much. Maybe the present actually matters the
most more than the future does. And so I was
able to kind of find a clear balance. I actually
recently just got upset at myself because I told myself,
after Special Forces, I wasn't going to put my career
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first anymore. I was gonna put my fun first, my
friendships first, my life first. But it's a fine line
because my life is my career. And I recently was
just in Florida with Tyler Cameron, who I did Special
Forces with. He's like, I mean, he's more than a
brother to me. Now. I love that boy. And then
my brother is also in Florida now, so I got
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to see my biological brother Jayden, and I got to
see his girlfriend Abby, and I got to see my
Special Forces brother Tyler, and I was having a really
good time and I got asked to come home to
do a concert with a new friend. Their name is
g Flip and G asked me to come perform with them,
and initially my answer was actually no because I was like,
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I'm in Florida. I can't make it work. And then
I was like, no, Jojo, you do not say no
to g Flip. Get your ass on a plane and
get home. So I rearranged my travel schedule and I
was like, I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna do it fine.
So I was supposed to be in Florida for a week.
I had to cut my trip short. I was only
there for like a day, day and a half and
it was super last minute. It was very hectic, but
I was like, you know, what's what we do. And
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as I was on the plane ride home, I remember
like I actually started like cry when I was telling
my mom about this because I was having a lot
of fun in Florida, and I told my mom, I
was like, I did exactly what I said. I wasn't
gonna do. I'm coming home to perform when I was
having fun with my friends and it wasn't work. We
were supposed to go on a boat the next day.
Then I was gonna go back up and indoor skydide
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with my brother, like supposed to be like pure fun
for the weekend, and I was gonna be a little break,
and I told myself. I was like, I'm doing exactly
what I said I was gonna do, Like I came
home to perform, like I came home to work, Like, Yeah,
it's gonna be fun and I'm excited to do with G.
But like I'm just I was sad. I was mad
at myself. But then I was like okay, Jojo, like
you gotta get over it. You're doing it like you
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did it. You're here, You're not taking another six hours,
like back to Florida, Like what are you gonna do?
So I was like all right, found some fire. Went
to sound check, and immediately when I walked in and
it was my first time actually meeting G in person,
I knew that I had made the right choice. And
it was hard because I was mad at myself for
a second. But then once I walked into that sound check,
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I was like, oh, this is the best place I
could be right now. And I had so much fun
at soundcheck with G and with Lauren. They're both amazing.
And then when it came time for the concert, like
I literally was like this was the best choice I
ever made, and it it kind of made me realize, like, look,
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it's not about putting your life first, it's not about
putting your career first. It's all about balance. This was
a moment that I had a choice of priority or fun,
and I chose priority when I told myself I was
going to choose fun from now on, but I picked priority,
and then I feel like the universe rewarded me by
picking the right choice, by making the right choice so
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much fun. I mean, it literally was the best night ever.
I have a photo from that night now as my
lock screen because I always set my lock screen to
something that can make me instantly happy, and that photo
is what can make me instantly happy right now is
remembering that night, remembering performing with G and Laura and god,
it was just I mean, it was the best night
in g. G text me it was like, thank you
so much again for changing your travel and like doing this,
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like I can't I can't even thank you enough for
coming tonight. And I told them I was like, it
was the best choice I've made in a really long time.
It was tough, but like I do not regret it
at all anyway. Sorry that that got into I told
you we were getting deep today. All right, If you
had to choose, would you rather do Dance Moms or
Forces again? Oh? Okay, honestly special Forces. I would give
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anything to go back to Forces. While we were there,
DSQ told us he was like, you, you're gonna miss it,
and I remember all of us were like, yeah, freaking right,
we never gonna miss this. I miss it, like I
remember the day I told DSQ, I was like, I
miss you. I never thought I would say those words,
but like, I miss you bad so Forces. I love
dance Moms. Sorry I didn't say who these last ones
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were from. That one was from JoJo's Softy So it
was from Cat Cat Real Cat Real George. Sorry, sorry,
home me. I don't know how to say your name.
They said, not a question. But let's talk about Lauren
and g Flip. What ah, That night was so much fun.
It was so much fun. Since we were just talking
about it, this is a great time to talk about
it a little more. I get to perform g Flip's
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song Gay for Me, which is such an iconic song,
and I got to do it with them and with Lauren,
and it was just oh, it was so much fun.
Uh Now I after the concert, I mean I watched
G perform and I was watching them play the drums,
and I was just like, I G is an incredible drummer.
But I was watching them play and I was just like,
I want to do that. I want to I want
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to learn that. And I tried the drum signs a
little but never never never kept them around. Uh. Literally
had him for like a day and then it was
like now the same for me. Anyways, after I was like,
I want to drum again. I want to drum, like
I want to get a drum kit, Like this is
what I'm gonna be into now. And that next day
Gee texted and was like, dude, if you ever want
to learn the drums, like I would love to teach you.
And I was like, you have no idea. Been contemplating
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this all freaking night, sick. So Gee, I'm actually having
my first lesson with them tomorrow and they're gonna come
up to my studio and teach me drums, which I'm
so excited about. Uh that concert, I told you, I
was like, you have no idea, Like this was a
fun night, but this was an inspiring night for me,
Like I best Night and g and Lauren are the
coolest freaking people in the world. Helliker aldc asked me,
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how did I come out to my mother? My mom
actually made my coming out to her super easy. Uh,
I I was. I can't. I was not scared to
come out, but afraid to come out. I know those
have very similar meanings. But I wasn't scared like, Ooh,
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my family's gonna hate me. I was scared, like, what's
my family gonna think that? I don't know? You know
what I mean? I was kind of afraid of I
was afraid of the unknown. And everyone kind of caught
a vibe between me and the very first girl that
I liked, and everyone kind of knew that, Like, oh,
I was like very open to the LGBTQ community. I
was very accepting, very celebrating. It was celebratory more than
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the average person, more than somebody who isn't a part
of the LGBTQ community, you know what I mean? Like
I feel like there's I mean, I can speak as
my family. Everybody else in my family besides me is straight.
Sexuality is fluid, so that could change out any point
in time, but everyone in my family is straight, and
for a time I was. I guess I was never straight,
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but we'll say I was. I'm pretty sure there's a
question about that coming up anyways, But I just I
don't know. I was always just a little more everyone
was accepting, but I was a little more excited about
the gays than everybody else. And so everyone kind of
caught a vibe between me and this girl who ended
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up becoming my first girlfriend, and my mom kind of
asked me about it, and I was like, no, no, nothing, nothing, nothing,
but in my head I knew what I was feeling.
And then after, I mean art, we were on a
vacation together and our vacation ended, and my mom was like,
you really like her, don't you, And we weren't with
her anymore. I just say goodbye, and I was in
the car and I was crying. I was like yeah,
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and my mom was like, do you like her as
a friend or is more than a friend? And I
was like more than a friend and my mom was
like I figured, and I was like, yeah, Like is
she I don't know. I always told myself. I was like,
I will only ever this is what I always said.
I said, I will only ever come out if I
have a reason to or if I met Lady Gaga.
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I don't know why, but I always had this plan
that if I ever saw Lady Gaga, I was gonna
tell her. Look, I've never told anyone this, but I
think I like girls. That was like always, like literally
twelve year old me's game plan was like, Lady Gaga,
I can tell Lady Gaga because I I don't know.
I just felt like Aga would have been like that
safe space for me to be able to be the
first person to come out to. So one day, if
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I have a megg, I will I will tell her that.
Still I'll be like, look, the whole world now now knows,
but you were going to be the first person that
I told because I just I don't know. Something in
my head was like, you can tell Gaga and she'll
be all right with it. But now, I mean my
coming out was was was simple because my people around
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me made it simple. My people around me were very open.
My people around me asked, and I now had a
reason to say, yes, you know, if I didn't like
a girl, or I wasn't with a girl, or say
I still say I like the girl but nothing happened
between us. I still would have just been like, oh no,
but I couldn't deny it anymore. You know, it was
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right there in front of me. I had now kissed
a girl, and it was like, whoa, this is real.
You actually have a feeling, like what is this? And
I don't know it. It was a sweet, very innocent crush,
and I just I couldn't. I couldn't hide from it anymore.
It just was what it was, so I had no
problem being open about it. Joe, this is actually this
question is actually from the same person. This question is
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from Hillick or aldc as well. They said, Jojo, do
you know the order of the solos? I don't. I
never got told the order of the solos. Even that
day they were like, not mine telling you five broke out.
Still don't know the order solos. And if you if
you don't know what I'm talking about right now, then
you're just too much to explain. Amber Underscore Basketball. Oh
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my gosh, we got another Amber Underscore basketball. How's it
balancing your life with family and people you work with
or your job? That is an incredible question. You know,
it's it comes in phases. You know, there's times when
my job requires more attention than my family and friends.
And there's times when my family and friends require more
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attention than my my job. You know, I always said
I'm lucky because my career I've been doing it long
enough now that I can just kind of do it
muscle memory without thinking, you know, growing up, like I
had to think from the time I was nine to
probably seventeen, and then once I turned seventeen, it was
like clockwork. I could do anything that I had learned
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in the past eight years, the same way that think
about a normal person, would you know, graduate high school
at eighteen, they'd kind of take a few years, maybe
we'll just say eight years, they'd take till they were
twenty six to kind of figure it out, and then
when you're twenty six, you kind of like you got
a groove. I found that groove from the time I
was I mean literally like ten to ten to eighteen,
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and so I think I'm very luckier. I even guess
nine to seventeen is what I was saying earlier that
now it's like I can kind of do my job
without thinking. The only thing is that requires a lot
of time and a lot of energy, and so a
lot of the times I'm just drained. My mom and
I are pretty actually codependent in the workplace, and that's
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just because we've been fifty to fifty my whole life.
But now that I'm getting older, you know kind of
this dynamic where it's like I don't need her help
on everything, and she doesn't need my help on everything.
And so we have a few code sayings now that
we're saying and we tend to overwork, so you know,
we'll work at night, we'll talk about work when somebody
necessarily doesn't want to. So we just literally within this
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last week, put a few rules in place, and there's
two of them. Number one, at any point in time
that is not between the hours of nine to five,
So say it's eight in the morning or six pm
at night or later. You know what I mean, you
can call Dolly Parton. And that is if my mom
is talking to me at eleven PM at night about
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something for work, I can say Dolly Parton and that means,
I am I wanted to talk about this, but I've
just had a day and I've worked a lot today
and I just don't have the energy. I mean to
talk about it at ten o'clock at night, and she
then the other person has the rule that they can't
get offended by that and they just have to hold
it intil the morning, make a list, write it down,
or if it is super important, they can ask for
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a hall pass. We haven't had to do the hallpase yet,
but that's kind of our New Dolly parton saying is
kind of just to be a boundary of like, hey,
look like I want to work, but just not right now.
And then another one that we just put in place
is so that way we don't feel like we have
to be so codependent. What'll happen a lot is she'll
ask for my opinion on something. We're all asked for
her opinion on something. Sometimes you do want the opinion,
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other times you just want the validation. And for me
that would be like if I was, you know, putting
on an outfit and like I needed her validation on
like what I was wearing. Right, she can knock three
times knock knock knock, and that means that, look, I
just I don't care. Don't be offended that I don't care,
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but I just don't care. And it's a solo project
and the reason it's knock knock knock, it's because Miley
Cyrus has a song on my own and is I'll
do it on my own and it goes three knocks
at the door and it has that in it. And
so say she's doing a project and she goes, Jojo,
what what order of the song should XOMG sing? And
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I'll say in order and she'll be like okay, But
like wait, I was like I already had it wrote
down like this, and then I can just knock three times,
cause like, look, that's solo project, Like you already have
it in your head. You're just looking for my validation
of yours, So knock, knock, knock. I care about you.
I care about this, but I don't care about that,
you know what I mean. And it's it's not a
bitchy I don't care. It's more just like, uh, you
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got this. You don't need you don't need my validation
on this. You will get it no matter what you know.
So that's kind of our new saying, and that's really
helped balance things. Yeah, No, I mean, it's it's it's tough.
It's hard. Is our our life is our work, and
that's a hard balance to figure out. And that's why
I always say it's not for everybody. I always tell
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my girl group kids, if you don't love it now,
you're never gonna love it, So stop, you know, if
you don't wanna, if you you're so young that if
you're if you feel like you're not right for this,
don't do it. And all my girl group kids are
freaking amazing. I'm so proud of those kids. They're strong
as little kidos ever, they're awesome. Levy Elizabeth back with
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another question. They asked, have you apologized to any of
the Dance Mom girls for invalidating their trauma since reuniting.
This is something that when I got asked this question,
I realized it was kind of a deeper, deeper picture
that I would like to talk about. I over the
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last few years have, honestly, I can't even say last
few years, last few months, have learned other people's experiences,
and that is something that when you put that into perspective,
it changes a lot. It changes a lot about how
you think about things, how you think about people, how
you respond to people. Is really understanding someone else's perspective.
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And I can say that that's something that I'm grateful
that I've grown from. Now. The thing is is we did.
I will say we did. On the reunion, we talked
about the trauma that I talked about online publicly. The
only ever ways that I've shaded people Dance Moms wise
is Brooke made a joke about Abby online, which I
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learned it was a joke and you'll hear more about
this in the reunion and I said, look, it's one
thing to say it, but to just deny it. But
it's an abbe Le account, not Abby herself. Friend requestedt Brooke,
and Brooke was like, uh what. I at the time
thought she was being serious. She was making a joke
like she knew it was an Abby, she was making
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cracking a joke about it. I commented, it's one thing
to just deny, but it's another to post about it.
Just keeps something like this to yourself. Now, that is
something that I still do believe. That is, if you
don't have something that is positive to say about somebody,
then just like look, keep it to yourself. However, I
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also believe in standing up for your people, and I
think Brooke was standing up for herself that post. And
I think I was standing up for my friend by
that post. And I didn't know book at the time. Now,
Brooke and I are very cool with each other. We've
had some incredible talks, like it's been it's been really great.
But it's it's I don't know, I think something got
put into my head of like, look, the same way
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it's okay for you to defend your friend, it's also
okay for her to defend herself. So if I go
back in time, probably just wouldn't take the effort to comment,
you know what I mean, Like, I'd probably just also
keep my opinion to myself, which is something that I've learned,
you know, throughout a lot of situations on the internet,
specifically for me, like with the Cannas Cameron situation with
my exes. The only time now that I will speak
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about somebody is if I am being accused of something
that I didn't do or didn't didn't happen, which did
happen recently a few a few lies have been said
about me, And look, a story is a story. There's
always going to be multiple sides of the story. There's
always going to be one side, A side, B side,
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and then there's gonna be the truth. And I don't,
I don't. I think I've learned that it's okay for
someone to share their side as long as it doesn't
hurt somebody else. And that happened to me where somebody
was sharing their side, but there was a lot of
lies on their side to glorify them when I actually
legally can't talk about what happened. And that's something that
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you know, gets hard when people are saying something online
about you and coming at you and then blaming at you.
But people people can't even know the truth because I
can't legally talk about the truth, and that that is
hard because it's you're just seeing the comments every single
day and you're seeing people tell you're a bad person
every single day, and you ruin this person, and I'm like,
you don't even know the start of it, not even
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the half of it. You don't even know a fourth
of it. Like it's and so people, I've learned, really
love to believe lies on the internet. It is so
fun for people to believe, and a lot of things
are true, a lot of things are twisted, and a
lot of things are false, and people love to jump
and agree and join the most dramatic because it's the
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most entertaining, and people like what's entertaining. Think about dance moms.
You don't remember the fun good days. You remember the fights.
People like the entertaining stuff. Think about vander Pump. Tell
me one other thing that's happened on vander Pump. I gonna.
I've never watched vander Pump. I don't know, but I
sure as hell know about Scandabal, not just because I'm
friends with him, but after the fact of Special Forces,
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everyone's been like, oh my god, so tell me about
Tom Standibal And I'm like, that's the one thing people remember,
you know what I mean. But long story short, I've
learned that it's it's it's a shit thing to do
to invalidate someone else's feelings. And that is something that
I have done a few times and I've definitely learned.
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But it is okay to stand up for yourself, and
it is okay to stand up for your friends. And overall,
people are going to pick sides. It's gonna happen. I
wish it didn't have to happen, but it does happen,
and people will. And just remember that in life, no
matter what, time keeps moving and time keeps going on,
and we only have so long on this earth. Unfortunately,
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the world today loves to focus on the bad, but
there is good, So don't get lost and caught up
in the bad. Remember the good. Oh, and then back
to the original question invalidating the trauma. The other thing
was Christie. I responded to Christy because she was saying
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bad things about Gianna, and Gianna is somebody that I
love and adoor still to this day. She is the
freaking awesomest again me realizing people did have different experiences,
but also me realizing that Christy is a forty seven
year old woman. She should know not to say mean
things about someone on the internet, which I also didn't
know the lesson at the time, And I think Christy
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probably learned the lesson at the same time that I did.
I think I, just as a kid, thought she would
have already known the lesson, and so I came at her.
I did watch the video back just recently during the
Dance Lungs reunion, and I was like, ah, now, Jojo,
that was a little much. That was a little much,
like you didn't need to go that hard in her.
I feel like now I would still stand up for Gia,
but I'd be like, hello, dude, I understand you had
(31:18):
a different experience with Gia, but let's just keep things nice.
If you don't got anything nice, I just don't say
I'm at all. I feel like that's how I do
it now. However, at the time I went in on her,
which I mean, I don't know that it's how I
felt at the time. But we did talk about it,
we did clear the air. Everything's cool again. Look what
did Tom Hollands say? He said, if you have a
problem with me, text me, and if you don't have
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my number to text me, then you don't have a
reason to have a problem with me. And that I
mean is it's straight fire. It's a baller quote. All right.
Moving on to a better topic, Robin dot Spring two
point zero asked any advice on coming out. Yes, it's hard.
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Even for people who it might look easy for, it
is still very hard. The best part is after once
you're out and you never have to do it again.
But the first time you come out as the hardest.
I think, pick somebody who might not even be your
closest person, but pick somebody who you know you're gonna
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get a good reaction from as your first person that
you come out to. Because that will give you your
first time to say it, and then you know that
that person's gonna be supportive, you know what I mean.
If there's another person that is a member of the
LGBTQ community that you can come out to, I would
start there because they they've been there, they've come out,
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they understand, or maybe they haven't come out, and maybe
you two can help each other. But I think start there,
start with someone safe, and work your way to that
person that you are hard like that is hardest to
come out to, but be brave. Coming out is the
best thing. It is a gift to be able to
come out, be brave. Know that everyone in this generation
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that's coming out is paving the way for the next
generation for it to not be awkward. And I think
the younger that we get, I mean, obviously, I know
we're all getting old with time, but I came out
when I was seventeen, and I think that opened the
door for a lot of kids to see, oh, she's
seventeen and coming out. So I think the more we
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can normalize it, the better. But coming out, I mean,
it's hard. I wouldn't sugarcoat it and say it's easy,
but just pick a safe person and go for it.
You're just softy. Ask what's your favorite under you drink?
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(33:43):
red raspberry, cherry lime, made lime, ough, They're all so good.
Favorite moment with you and Jenna. Actually just had a
really sweet moment with Jenna. I had Jenna on the
podcast and I got to read her my death note
that I wrote on Special Forces because I wrote it
to her and anytime I read this death note, I
sob and it's a very hard thing for me to read.
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It puts me back in a place where I was
one of my lowest, literally writing a death note after
I hadn't seen family, hadn't talked to anybody for multiple days.
And so I finally got to read her little part
of it, and I mean it broke me, but it
also built me more than ever. While we're on favorite
memories with people, I got favorite memory with Tyler Cameron
on Special Forces. My favorite memory with Tie on Forces
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is when we were chopping wood and I ran the
accent into my leg and Tyler was like, oh, shot,
because not only Tyler when he tells the story. Oh no,
Actually I have a better memory. Now we're boarding mission,
I have a better memory. My favorite memory is day two.
I became fashion police because they would get mad at us.
That yes, would get mad at us and punish us
if we didn't all look the same. So finally I
(34:53):
was like, all right, well, I'm taking on this role
of telling everyone how to look because look, you put
me and Jack Osborne and Nick and Tyler and body
Miller in a room. Which one of us is gonna
know what her wardrobe is supposed to look like. Which
one of us is gonna notice whose sock is pulled
up higher than the others, the twenty year old psychotic dancer,
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That's who's gonna know. And so I was like, all right,
I'm taking on this role. So I used to tell
the boys. I'd be like, we're wearing this because we
had a few different layers that we could choose between.
I'd be like, everyone, put this on and make sure
that we're doing three buttons, zip pockets, gloves in the pockets.
Like I just started to tell everyone, And then as
we would run out to the braid square stand out
by the door, and I would be like, Tyler, your
right button, and he would look at his right buttons undone,
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and I body, you're missing your own band Jack. Your
shoes are different than everybody else's tire shoes, right, Like
I just started to really police everybody up, which is
something that DS wanted us to do, but no one
was kind of taking over and doing it. And the
duty recruit, who was like the lead of the recruits
for the day, was supposed to do that, and that
role was ever changing. But that was something that people
wouldn't even necessarily notice if one button was missing, but
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I could look at everybody and see instantly who was off.
And that I mean it does come from being a
dancer and cleaning dances and looking at wardrobe and costumes
and so anyways, I became wardorab police. And in the
beginning day two three four, even really day no, as
they did two three and four, the boys would get
like annoyed. They'd roll their eyes at me, they'd kind
of scoff and you know what I mean, Like it
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was funny to see, but I was always I was
always right. I would never do it to be annoying.
I would never do it to tell them what to do.
I would just do it so we didn't get in trouble.
And so like they would come in and they take
their armband off and they would like leave it on
the floor, and I'd be like, put your arm band on,
otherwise you're gonna forget it. And they'd be like Jojo,
and I'd be like and they'd be like, you're right,
and I was like, I know. Anyways. One of my
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favorite memories with Tyler's I think it was like Dave
five or six. He comes up to me, he was like, hey, Jojo,
we checked my outfit and I was like, absolutely, I will.
And that moment for me was such a like, Okay,
these boys actually understand now where I'm coming from, the
fact that this grown thirty year old man's like, we've
checked my whole pretty like. I just that moment for me,
(37:04):
I was like, ah, you're a good one, bro. Like
I've had to yell at these boys, and now now
not only would I check this out and be like no,
you're good, like you're in like I got them conditioned
on how to wear their wardrobe, but it was the
fact that he like wanted the like the check now.
It just it made me really really happy. Ooh, pass this,
paz d sss. I don't know how to say that.
(37:26):
I'm going with pad pasts. Are you talking slash seeing
anyone right now? I bet you'd like to know fully not?
I no, no, I'm not. I'm not. I told myself
in the beginning of twenty twenty three, it's like, I'm
not dating all this year. And I talked to a
few people throughout the year. I've talked to I'd say
(37:47):
two people. I would I would say two people. It's
fair to say I've talked to two different people throughout
the year. And yeah, both just never never really went anywhere.
They ended before they even started, basically and uh yeah,
miss mother and really holding me to my you ain't
dating all of twenty twenty three rule, and so good
news is the the year is almost over HILLI gray
(38:08):
eil easy back with another one. They asked, did you
really have a crush on Colonie when you were young?
Absolutely not. Colonie also joined jojoun Now and we talk
all about this something she listened to it. We talk
all about my crush on her that I did not have.
But I don't know man, I mean me and Colonie.
We'd be cute together. It's never happening, but we'd be cute.
There are so many questions and I really do love
(38:29):
answering them, so I would like to do a part
two to this. Everybody, stay tuned and enjoy Part two
of the Q and A of Jojesua Now. Thank you
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You're listening to Jojosuwan now with me Jojo Siua and
iHeartRadio podcast. Oh, this is gonna be a fun one.
I'm actually I'm really excited for this. So we've welcome back,
first of all, to Jojo Sua. Now I am Jojo
Siwa and this is me. Now. I feel like I
need some sort of official intro. You know, when I
was a kid and I did YouTube, I head, hey,
(00:21):
everyone is joy on, welcome, But I feel like Jojosuwan
now I need like a like solid I say this
every time, or maybe I don't because you know, I'm
different now, so maybe that's the whole point of not
having Ninja. I don't know. Anyways, not the point of today.
Point of today is I am doing a Q and
A for the first time since I stopped doing JoJo's
(00:41):
Juice years ago. I just have this thing on my
YouTube channel called JoJo's Juice where every Wednesday and answer
questions off of Twitter and then I would pour a
different juice on my head. So you gotta juice on
my life and then juice over my head. Today you
are getting the juice on my life, but you are
not getting the juice over my head, and mainly because
this is audio. But uh, even if it was video,
believe it or not, I wouldn't do that anymore. That's
(01:03):
such a lie. I so would. I love Jo Justice.
That was so fun. Anyways, Hi, welcome back to Jon
just one Now today, I am so stoked. You know,
We've had a lot of podcasts now where I've had
my friends on, We've gotten to talk about our shared experiences.
Sother that'd be TV shows, life experiences, learning curves, all
the things. But today we are taking it right back
(01:24):
to the roots. Now we are gonna do a straight
up Q and A. I asked you guys for questions
on my Instagram at it's Jojasiwa. You sent them in
and I got lots of good questions to answer, and
I tried my best to pick a variety of questions,
you know, throughout career things to personal things, to advise
things to also things that just were things that I
(01:47):
haven't talked about necessarily, or answers that are much deeper
than just a quick, little one sentence. So buckle up,
because we're gonna we're gonna get real deep. We're gonna
get really deep right now. And I I don't even
know if I'm coy ready for this, but here we go.
We're starting off so strong. At JoJo's Underscore, paparazzi asked
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if you had kids, what would you name them? And
I when I saw this question, I specifically flagged it
because I am so in love with my idea for
kids right now. For their names. All three of my
kids will have the same middle name, and their middle
name will just be E, just the letter E and
all of their names. So I would love to have triplets,
two boys, one girl. That's like my ideal right now.
(02:30):
Of course, all I want is healthy babies, but right
now I'm in a phase where I want triplets, two boys,
one girl. The girl's name is fred E because Freddie
with the E initial. Then the two boys are ted
and Ed. So I'll have Freddy, Eddie and Teddy. I
am obsessed with there right now. I just the idea
of being like fred ed ted Come here, Freddie, Eddie Teddy,
Like where am I? Where's Freddy Eddie and Teddy? Like
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I just uh, I think decorating the room and like
putting their little names Freddy, Eddie Teddy, like, I just
think it's so cute but fred E ted E ed E,
I don't know. I just think it's cute anyways. Oh gosh,
my poor kids. Oh I'm so excited to have babies
one day. It's gonna be the best. But Kansei se
Whenater asked what moment in time would you like to
relive slash do again, this is a question that I
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think about actually all the time, because there's been so
many amazing faces in my life. I mean, of course,
Dance Moms, Abby's Ultimate dance Competition, Dancing with the Stars,
Special Forces, as hard and torturess as it was, I
would love to live it again. Think if I could
pick a time of my life that I would only
relive again, it would actually be Special Forces only because
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it was so short. You know. Special Forces was about
a week long, little over a week long, and so
the fact that it was so quick, you know, Dancing
with the Stars is seventy five days, Dance Ang was
two years. I got to really soak it up. But
I feel like those projects for me would be would
be my like winner. I think special Forces also, though
Dream the Tour era, I loved being on tour. My
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concert tour was my favorite thing ever. I think if
I could time travel, I'd go to like Top of
twenty nineteen, because then I would relive Dream the Tour again,
real live Dancing to the Stars, relive mess Singer, relive
Special Forces, relive coming out, relive falling in love for
the first time. Like I'd get to relive all of
my best moments. So I feel like I feel like
that would be my vibe. Top of twenty nineteen. Ooh,
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Kaylee Kaylee's sixty four Kaylee sixty four Underscore, There we go,
There so he us name. Kaylee sixty four Underscore asked
would you ever have any x's on the podcast? This question?
I actually was so interested by my own inner thoughts
because instantly my thought was like, yes, I totally would.
(04:41):
But then I was like, but wait, who, which one
and and and why? And what would you talk about?
And I don't, I don't, I don't know. I my
initial answer is yes, because I would. I would welcome
anybody to come on jojyesy and now that would be
willing to talk about their life experiences and things they've
gone through. And I think something about me, is I
(05:02):
really choose to look at my past and be grateful
for it and so even though you know, obviously, because
I'm not with any of them anymore and they're all
my exes, even though things didn't work out between us, truly,
I am so grateful for each and every one of
them because they I mean, I'm speaking like I have
fifty I have really two real ones. I have like
three fake ones, but like two real ones. And the
(05:26):
thing is is like they both came into my life
for a reason, and I'm very very grateful for that.
They both taught me a lot of lessons, and they
both taught me a lot of experience, and I'm very
grateful for everyone that's come on to my bus and
hopped on and hopped off. But the reality of it
is is I'm so young, only twenty years old, and
you know, my first relationship start when I was seventeen,
(05:47):
my second when I was nineteen, And so the thought
of like it's it's okay where young, like life moves
on and like odds are a teenage couple isn't gonna
work out. And so I think I have a really
clear perspective on like it's okay, there doesn't need to
be bad blood. Obviously, a lot more went on that
than the world sees on the internet, and that can
(06:09):
get kind of hard to see because you kind of
get wrapped up in what the internet thinks. But yeah, no,
I'm not not opposed to having my ex's on the podcast.
I don't think I think I'd be really stressed the
day that they're here, But yeah, I think it'd be
kind of interesting. Maybe not anytime soon. I feel like
I need like a year to prep for that. Levia
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Elizabeth asked, have you gone to therapy like that wasn't
required by Special Forces? This question I thought was super
important to answer. I haven't. I never have. I've been
on a lot of dramatic TV shows, Dance Moms, we
had a set psychiatrist who was there for us if
we ever needed her. Never needed her, but she was
always there. And then Special Forces we have required therapy.
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I'm pretty sure I'm done with all the therapy. I
might have to do more towards the end anyways, But
you for Forces the therapy. I actually didn't think I
was gonna need it. I was like, ah, I'm chilling,
I'm good. Then once trailers and stuff started to come
out and I started to see things again, I was like, ooh, hey, buddy,
can we do a chat? Like I did really need
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it and it was the first time in my life
that I ever felt like I needed to talk to somebody.
I don't know. I feel like I have a really
really good support system around me, and I think that
if you are comfortable enough to be able to chat
with your your friends and family about your life, then
that's a blessing. But also sometimes it's the right step
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is to get professional and professional help and a professional therapist.
But for me personally, I don't know. I've just kind
of found my right dynamic in my own skin with
my friends, with my family, and I've never gone to therapy.
I think I need it. I think I should go.
I think I have a lot that I don't even
realize that I just keep inside me. But I don't know.
(08:05):
I just it's never been something that It's never been
a can of worms that I've opened, and I I
don't know if it ever will be, But if it
ever is, then hey it is, there's nothing wrong with it.
What was your favorite dance that you did in Dancing
with the Stars. That is from Lily Beth twenty five
oh one. Hey, Lily Beth favorite dancing with the Stars Dance,
I mean gosh, I watched the Dancing with the Stars
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dances all the time, So we got are You Gonna
Be My Girl? Which was our quick step. We had
our rain on me Cha Cha, Argentine tango, Hit Me
Baby One More Time, Viennie's waltz to Dreams with Your
Heartmakes Pas do Blay to Disney's Descendants Ways to Be Wicked,
What do we do? After that? After that was Sandy
and Frenchy, which was a foxtrot for Greece, and then
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we did Next. The next week was Pennywise, which was
our jazz anything Goes. The next week was Queen Weeks,
so we did tango to Body Language and then another
foxtrot and the relay to under Pressure. So that was
Janet Jackson week, where we did a salset of feedback
and we did That's the Way I Love Goes. We
had a rumbach dance I Love and then it was
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uh Semi Finals weeks. We had an Argentine tango to
a song called Santa Maria, and we had our contemporary
to anything Not Anything Goes Before You Goes what that
one was called? And then the finale we had our
freestyle of Born This Way and Our Cha Shat Tango
fusion too. I don't care, I love it, gosh. My
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favorite is probably between Sandy and Frenchy Foxtrot. I really
loved the feeling of that dance. Wasn't necessarily my favorite
Steps to Do, Steps to Do. I love Pennywise and
I love Our Contemporary because those dances just they felt
so comfortable for me because I'd done them before. You know,
I grew up being a competitive dancer and so, but
not anything ballroom, so any ballroom styles, Latin styles that
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that was out of my comfort zone. But when it
came time to do contemporary and jazz, you know, I
I had done that before, never partnering, but I knew
what I was getting myself into. So probably those two
in Sanmium Frenchy, those were those are my favorites. What
did Special Forces make you realize so much? Special Forces?
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This question comes from Ambar Underscore Basketball special Forces. I mean,
it really did make me realize so much. It made
me realize the things that I cared about, the people
that I cared about, what mattered to me, what didn't
matter to me? Uh, I don't know. I think I
had I had a very I've always had a pretty
clear perspective on life, and I've always kind of been
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able to see bigger picture and things. But I think
maybe in Special Forces I was actually able to see
the smaller picture of like, hey, look, maybe the future
doesn't matter so much. Maybe the present actually matters the
most more than the future does. And so I was
able to kind of find a clear balance. I actually
recently just got upset at myself because I told myself,
after Special Forces, I wasn't going to put my career
(10:56):
first anymore. I was gonna put my fun first, my
friendships first, my life first. But it's a fine line
because my life is my career. And I recently was
just in Florida with Tyler Cameron, who I did Special
Forces with. He's like, I mean, he's more than a
brother to me. Now. I love that boy. And then
my brother is also in Florida now, so I got
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to see my biological brother Jayden, and I got to
see his girlfriend Abby, and I got to see my
Special Forces brother Tyler, and I was having a really
good time and I got asked to come home to
do a concert with a new friend. Their name is
g Flip and G asked me to come perform with them,
and initially my answer was actually no because I was like,
(11:40):
I'm in Florida. I can't make it work. And then
I was like, no, Jojo, you do not say no
to g Flip. Get your ass on a plane and
get home. So I rearranged my travel schedule and I
was like, I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna do it fine.
So I was supposed to be in Florida for a week.
I had to cut my trip short. I was only
there for like a day, day and a half and
it was super last minute. It was very hectic, but
I was like, you know, what's what we do. And
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as I was on the plane ride home, I remember
like I actually started like cry when I was telling
my mom about this because I was having a lot
of fun in Florida, and I told my mom, I
was like, I did exactly what I said. I wasn't
gonna do. I'm coming home to perform when I was
having fun with my friends and it wasn't work. We
were supposed to go on a boat the next day.
Then I was gonna go back up and indoor skydide
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with my brother, like supposed to be like pure fun
for the weekend, and I was gonna be a little break,
and I told myself. I was like, I'm doing exactly
what I said I was gonna do, Like I came
home to perform, like I came home to work, Like, Yeah,
it's gonna be fun and I'm excited to do with G.
But like I'm just I was sad. I was mad
at myself. But then I was like okay, Jojo, like
you gotta get over it. You're doing it like you
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did it. You're here, You're not taking another six hours,
like back to Florida, Like what are you gonna do?
So I was like all right, found some fire. Went
to sound check, and immediately when I walked in and
it was my first time actually meeting G in person,
I knew that I had made the right choice. And
it was hard because I was mad at myself for
a second. But then once I walked into that sound check,
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I was like, oh, this is the best place I
could be right now. And I had so much fun
at soundcheck with G and with Lauren. They're both amazing.
And then when it came time for the concert, like
I literally was like this was the best choice I
ever made, and it it kind of made me realize, like, look,
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it's not about putting your life first, it's not about
putting your career first. It's all about balance. This was
a moment that I had a choice of priority or fun,
and I chose priority when I told myself I was
going to choose fun from now on, but I picked priority,
and then I feel like the universe rewarded me by
picking the right choice, by making the right choice so
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much fun. I mean, it literally was the best night ever.
I have a photo from that night now as my
lock screen because I always set my lock screen to
something that can make me instantly happy, and that photo
is what can make me instantly happy right now is
remembering that night, remembering performing with G and Laura and god,
it was just I mean, it was the best night
in g. G text me it was like, thank you
so much again for changing your travel and like doing this,
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like I can't I can't even thank you enough for
coming tonight. And I told them I was like, it
was the best choice I've made in a really long time.
It was tough, but like I do not regret it
at all anyway. Sorry that that got into I told
you we were getting deep today. All right, If you
had to choose, would you rather do Dance Moms or
Forces again? Oh? Okay, honestly special Forces. I would give
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anything to go back to Forces. While we were there,
DSQ told us he was like, you, you're gonna miss it,
and I remember all of us were like, yeah, freaking right,
we never gonna miss this. I miss it, like I
remember the day I told DSQ, I was like, I
miss you. I never thought I would say those words,
but like, I miss you bad so Forces. I love
dance Moms. Sorry I didn't say who these last ones
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were from. That one was from JoJo's Softy So it
was from Cat Cat Real Cat Real George. Sorry, sorry,
home me. I don't know how to say your name.
They said, not a question. But let's talk about Lauren
and g Flip. What ah, That night was so much fun.
It was so much fun. Since we were just talking
about it, this is a great time to talk about
it a little more. I get to perform g Flip's
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song Gay for Me, which is such an iconic song,
and I got to do it with them and with Lauren,
and it was just oh, it was so much fun.
Uh Now I after the concert, I mean I watched
G perform and I was watching them play the drums,
and I was just like, I G is an incredible drummer.
But I was watching them play and I was just like,
I want to do that. I want to I want
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to learn that. And I tried the drum signs a
little but never never never kept them around. Uh. Literally
had him for like a day and then it was
like now the same for me. Anyways, after I was like,
I want to drum again. I want to drum, like
I want to get a drum kit, Like this is
what I'm gonna be into now. And that next day
Gee texted and was like, dude, if you ever want
to learn the drums, like I would love to teach you.
And I was like, you have no idea. Been contemplating
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this all freaking night, sick. So Gee, I'm actually having
my first lesson with them tomorrow and they're gonna come
up to my studio and teach me drums, which I'm
so excited about. Uh that concert, I told you, I
was like, you have no idea, Like this was a
fun night, but this was an inspiring night for me,
Like I best Night and g and Lauren are the
coolest freaking people in the world. Helliker aldc asked me,
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how did I come out to my mother? My mom
actually made my coming out to her super easy. Uh,
I I was. I can't. I was not scared to
come out, but afraid to come out. I know those
have very similar meanings. But I wasn't scared like, Ooh,
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my family's gonna hate me. I was scared, like, what's
my family gonna think that? I don't know? You know
what I mean? I was kind of afraid of I
was afraid of the unknown. And everyone kind of caught
a vibe between me and the very first girl that
I liked, and everyone kind of knew that, Like, oh,
I was like very open to the LGBTQ community. I
was very accepting, very celebrating. It was celebratory more than
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the average person, more than somebody who isn't a part
of the LGBTQ community, you know what I mean? Like
I feel like there's I mean, I can speak as
my family. Everybody else in my family besides me is straight.
Sexuality is fluid, so that could change out any point
in time, but everyone in my family is straight, and
for a time I was. I guess I was never straight,
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but we'll say I was. I'm pretty sure there's a
question about that coming up anyways, But I just I
don't know. I was always just a little more everyone
was accepting, but I was a little more excited about
the gays than everybody else. And so everyone kind of
caught a vibe between me and this girl who ended
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up becoming my first girlfriend, and my mom kind of
asked me about it, and I was like, no, no, nothing, nothing, nothing,
but in my head I knew what I was feeling.
And then after, I mean art, we were on a
vacation together and our vacation ended, and my mom was like,
you really like her, don't you, And we weren't with
her anymore. I just say goodbye, and I was in
the car and I was crying. I was like yeah,
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and my mom was like, do you like her as
a friend or is more than a friend? And I
was like more than a friend and my mom was
like I figured, and I was like, yeah, Like is
she I don't know. I always told myself. I was like,
I will only ever this is what I always said.
I said, I will only ever come out if I
have a reason to or if I met Lady Gaga.
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I don't know why, but I always had this plan
that if I ever saw Lady Gaga, I was gonna
tell her. Look, I've never told anyone this, but I
think I like girls. That was like always, like literally
twelve year old me's game plan was like, Lady Gaga,
I can tell Lady Gaga because I I don't know.
I just felt like Aga would have been like that
safe space for me to be able to be the
first person to come out to. So one day, if
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I have a megg, I will I will tell her that.
Still I'll be like, look, the whole world now now knows,
but you were going to be the first person that
I told because I just I don't know. Something in
my head was like, you can tell Gaga and she'll
be all right with it. But now, I mean my
coming out was was was simple because my people around
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me made it simple. My people around me were very open.
My people around me asked, and I now had a
reason to say, yes, you know, if I didn't like
a girl, or I wasn't with a girl, or say
I still say I like the girl but nothing happened
between us. I still would have just been like, oh no,
but I couldn't deny it anymore. You know, it was
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right there in front of me. I had now kissed
a girl, and it was like, whoa, this is real.
You actually have a feeling, like what is this? And
I don't know it. It was a sweet, very innocent crush,
and I just I couldn't. I couldn't hide from it anymore.
It just was what it was, so I had no
problem being open about it. Joe, this is actually this
question is actually from the same person. This question is
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from Hillick or aldc as well. They said, Jojo, do
you know the order of the solos? I don't. I
never got told the order of the solos. Even that
day they were like, not mine telling you five broke out.
Still don't know the order solos. And if you if
you don't know what I'm talking about right now, then
you're just too much to explain. Amber Underscore Basketball. Oh
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my gosh, we got another Amber Underscore basketball. How's it
balancing your life with family and people you work with
or your job? That is an incredible question. You know,
it's it comes in phases. You know, there's times when
my job requires more attention than my family and friends.
And there's times when my family and friends require more
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attention than my my job. You know, I always said
I'm lucky because my career I've been doing it long
enough now that I can just kind of do it
muscle memory without thinking, you know, growing up, like I
had to think from the time I was nine to
probably seventeen, and then once I turned seventeen, it was
like clockwork. I could do anything that I had learned
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in the past eight years, the same way that think
about a normal person, would you know, graduate high school
at eighteen, they'd kind of take a few years, maybe
we'll just say eight years, they'd take till they were
twenty six to kind of figure it out, and then
when you're twenty six, you kind of like you got
a groove. I found that groove from the time I
was I mean literally like ten to ten to eighteen,
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and so I think I'm very luckier. I even guess
nine to seventeen is what I was saying earlier that
now it's like I can kind of do my job
without thinking. The only thing is that requires a lot
of time and a lot of energy, and so a
lot of the times I'm just drained. My mom and
I are pretty actually codependent in the workplace, and that's
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just because we've been fifty to fifty my whole life.
But now that I'm getting older, you know kind of
this dynamic where it's like I don't need her help
on everything, and she doesn't need my help on everything.
And so we have a few code sayings now that
we're saying and we tend to overwork, so you know,
we'll work at night, we'll talk about work when somebody
necessarily doesn't want to. So we just literally within this
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last week, put a few rules in place, and there's
two of them. Number one, at any point in time
that is not between the hours of nine to five,
So say it's eight in the morning or six pm
at night or later. You know what I mean, you
can call Dolly Parton. And that is if my mom
is talking to me at eleven PM at night about
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something for work, I can say Dolly Parton and that means,
I am I wanted to talk about this, but I've
just had a day and I've worked a lot today
and I just don't have the energy. I mean to
talk about it at ten o'clock at night, and she
then the other person has the rule that they can't
get offended by that and they just have to hold
it intil the morning, make a list, write it down,
or if it is super important, they can ask for
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a hall pass. We haven't had to do the hallpase yet,
but that's kind of our New Dolly parton saying is
kind of just to be a boundary of like, hey,
look like I want to work, but just not right now.
And then another one that we just put in place
is so that way we don't feel like we have
to be so codependent. What'll happen a lot is she'll
ask for my opinion on something. We're all asked for
her opinion on something. Sometimes you do want the opinion,
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other times you just want the validation. And for me
that would be like if I was, you know, putting
on an outfit and like I needed her validation on
like what I was wearing. Right, she can knock three
times knock knock knock, and that means that, look, I
just I don't care. Don't be offended that I don't care,
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but I just don't care. And it's a solo project
and the reason it's knock knock knock, it's because Miley
Cyrus has a song on my own and is I'll
do it on my own and it goes three knocks
at the door and it has that in it. And
so say she's doing a project and she goes, Jojo,
what what order of the song should XOMG sing? And
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I'll say in order and she'll be like okay, But
like wait, I was like I already had it wrote
down like this, and then I can just knock three times,
cause like, look, that's solo project, Like you already have
it in your head. You're just looking for my validation
of yours, So knock, knock, knock. I care about you.
I care about this, but I don't care about that,
you know what I mean. And it's it's not a
bitchy I don't care. It's more just like, uh, you
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got this. You don't need you don't need my validation
on this. You will get it no matter what you know.
So that's kind of our new saying, and that's really
helped balance things. Yeah, No, I mean, it's it's it's tough.
It's hard. Is our our life is our work, and
that's a hard balance to figure out. And that's why
I always say it's not for everybody. I always tell
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my girl group kids, if you don't love it now,
you're never gonna love it, So stop, you know, if
you don't wanna, if you you're so young that if
you're if you feel like you're not right for this,
don't do it. And all my girl group kids are
freaking amazing. I'm so proud of those kids. They're strong
as little kidos ever, they're awesome. Levy Elizabeth back with
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another question. They asked, have you apologized to any of
the Dance Mom girls for invalidating their trauma since reuniting.
This is something that when I got asked this question,
I realized it was kind of a deeper, deeper picture
that I would like to talk about. I over the
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last few years have, honestly, I can't even say last
few years, last few months, have learned other people's experiences,
and that is something that when you put that into perspective,
it changes a lot. It changes a lot about how
you think about things, how you think about people, how
you respond to people. Is really understanding someone else's perspective.
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And I can say that that's something that I'm grateful
that I've grown from. Now. The thing is is we did.
I will say we did. On the reunion, we talked
about the trauma that I talked about online publicly. The
only ever ways that I've shaded people Dance Moms wise
is Brooke made a joke about Abby online, which I
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learned it was a joke and you'll hear more about
this in the reunion and I said, look, it's one
thing to say it, but to just deny it. But
it's an abbe Le account, not Abby herself. Friend requestedt Brooke,
and Brooke was like, uh what. I at the time
thought she was being serious. She was making a joke
like she knew it was an Abby, she was making
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cracking a joke about it. I commented, it's one thing
to just deny, but it's another to post about it.
Just keeps something like this to yourself. Now, that is
something that I still do believe. That is, if you
don't have something that is positive to say about somebody,
then just like look, keep it to yourself. However, I
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also believe in standing up for your people, and I
think Brooke was standing up for herself that post. And
I think I was standing up for my friend by
that post. And I didn't know book at the time. Now,
Brooke and I are very cool with each other. We've
had some incredible talks, like it's been it's been really great.
But it's it's I don't know, I think something got
put into my head of like, look, the same way
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it's okay for you to defend your friend, it's also
okay for her to defend herself. So if I go
back in time, probably just wouldn't take the effort to comment,
you know what I mean, Like, I'd probably just also
keep my opinion to myself, which is something that I've learned,
you know, throughout a lot of situations on the internet,
specifically for me, like with the Cannas Cameron situation with
my exes. The only time now that I will speak
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about somebody is if I am being accused of something
that I didn't do or didn't didn't happen, which did
happen recently a few a few lies have been said
about me, And look, a story is a story. There's
always going to be multiple sides of the story. There's
always going to be one side, A side, B side,
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and then there's gonna be the truth. And I don't,
I don't. I think I've learned that it's okay for
someone to share their side as long as it doesn't
hurt somebody else. And that happened to me where somebody
was sharing their side, but there was a lot of
lies on their side to glorify them when I actually
legally can't talk about what happened. And that's something that
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you know, gets hard when people are saying something online
about you and coming at you and then blaming at you.
But people people can't even know the truth because I
can't legally talk about the truth, and that that is
hard because it's you're just seeing the comments every single
day and you're seeing people tell you're a bad person
every single day, and you ruin this person, and I'm like,
you don't even know the start of it, not even
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the half of it. You don't even know a fourth
of it. Like it's and so people, I've learned, really
love to believe lies on the internet. It is so
fun for people to believe, and a lot of things
are true, a lot of things are twisted, and a
lot of things are false, and people love to jump
and agree and join the most dramatic because it's the
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most entertaining, and people like what's entertaining. Think about dance moms.
You don't remember the fun good days. You remember the fights.
People like the entertaining stuff. Think about vander Pump. Tell
me one other thing that's happened on vander Pump. I gonna.
I've never watched vander Pump. I don't know, but I
sure as hell know about Scandabal, not just because I'm
friends with him, but after the fact of Special Forces,
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everyone's been like, oh my god, so tell me about
Tom Standibal And I'm like, that's the one thing people remember,
you know what I mean. But long story short, I've
learned that it's it's it's a shit thing to do
to invalidate someone else's feelings. And that is something that
I have done a few times and I've definitely learned.
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But it is okay to stand up for yourself, and
it is okay to stand up for your friends. And overall,
people are going to pick sides. It's gonna happen. I
wish it didn't have to happen, but it does happen,
and people will. And just remember that in life, no
matter what, time keeps moving and time keeps going on,
and we only have so long on this earth. Unfortunately,
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the world today loves to focus on the bad, but
there is good, So don't get lost and caught up
in the bad. Remember the good. Oh, and then back
to the original question invalidating the trauma. The other thing
was Christie. I responded to Christy because she was saying
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bad things about Gianna, and Gianna is somebody that I
love and adoor still to this day. She is the
freaking awesomest again me realizing people did have different experiences,
but also me realizing that Christy is a forty seven
year old woman. She should know not to say mean
things about someone on the internet, which I also didn't
know the lesson at the time, And I think Christy
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probably learned the lesson at the same time that I did.
I think I, just as a kid, thought she would
have already known the lesson, and so I came at her.
I did watch the video back just recently during the
Dance Lungs reunion, and I was like, ah, now, Jojo,
that was a little much. That was a little much,
like you didn't need to go that hard in her.
I feel like now I would still stand up for Gia,
but I'd be like, hello, dude, I understand you had
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a different experience with Gia, but let's just keep things nice.
If you don't got anything nice, I just don't say
I'm at all. I feel like that's how I do
it now. However, at the time I went in on her,
which I mean, I don't know that it's how I
felt at the time. But we did talk about it,
we did clear the air. Everything's cool again. Look what
did Tom Hollands say? He said, if you have a
problem with me, text me, and if you don't have
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my number to text me, then you don't have a
reason to have a problem with me. And that I
mean is it's straight fire. It's a baller quote. All right.
Moving on to a better topic, Robin dot Spring two
point zero asked any advice on coming out. Yes, it's hard.
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Even for people who it might look easy for, it
is still very hard. The best part is after once
you're out and you never have to do it again.
But the first time you come out as the hardest.
I think, pick somebody who might not even be your
closest person, but pick somebody who you know you're gonna
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get a good reaction from as your first person that
you come out to. Because that will give you your
first time to say it, and then you know that
that person's gonna be supportive, you know what I mean.
If there's another person that is a member of the
LGBTQ community that you can come out to, I would
start there because they they've been there, they've come out,
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they understand, or maybe they haven't come out, and maybe
you two can help each other. But I think start there,
start with someone safe, and work your way to that
person that you are hard like that is hardest to
come out to, but be brave. Coming out is the
best thing. It is a gift to be able to
come out, be brave. Know that everyone in this generation
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that's coming out is paving the way for the next
generation for it to not be awkward. And I think
the younger that we get, I mean, obviously, I know
we're all getting old with time, but I came out
when I was seventeen, and I think that opened the
door for a lot of kids to see, oh, she's
seventeen and coming out. So I think the more we
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can normalize it, the better. But coming out, I mean,
it's hard. I wouldn't sugarcoat it and say it's easy,
but just pick a safe person and go for it.
You're just softy. Ask what's your favorite under you drink?
I had to throw a just fun answer question that
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red raspberry, cherry lime, made lime, ough, They're all so good.
Favorite moment with you and Jenna. Actually just had a
really sweet moment with Jenna. I had Jenna on the
podcast and I got to read her my death note
that I wrote on Special Forces because I wrote it
to her and anytime I read this death note, I
sob and it's a very hard thing for me to read.
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It puts me back in a place where I was
one of my lowest, literally writing a death note after
I hadn't seen family, hadn't talked to anybody for multiple days.
And so I finally got to read her little part
of it, and I mean it broke me, but it
also built me more than ever. While we're on favorite
memories with people, I got favorite memory with Tyler Cameron
on Special Forces. My favorite memory with Tie on Forces
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is when we were chopping wood and I ran the
accent into my leg and Tyler was like, oh, shot,
because not only Tyler when he tells the story. Oh no,
Actually I have a better memory. Now we're boarding mission,
I have a better memory. My favorite memory is day two.
I became fashion police because they would get mad at us.
That yes, would get mad at us and punish us
if we didn't all look the same. So finally I
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was like, all right, well, I'm taking on this role
of telling everyone how to look because look, you put
me and Jack Osborne and Nick and Tyler and body
Miller in a room. Which one of us is gonna
know what her wardrobe is supposed to look like. Which
one of us is gonna notice whose sock is pulled
up higher than the others, the twenty year old psychotic dancer,
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That's who's gonna know. And so I was like, all right,
I'm taking on this role. So I used to tell
the boys. I'd be like, we're wearing this because we
had a few different layers that we could choose between.
I'd be like, everyone, put this on and make sure
that we're doing three buttons, zip pockets, gloves in the pockets.
Like I just started to tell everyone, And then as
we would run out to the braid square stand out
by the door, and I would be like, Tyler, your
right button, and he would look at his right buttons undone,
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and I body, you're missing your own band Jack. Your
shoes are different than everybody else's tire shoes, right, Like
I just started to really police everybody up, which is
something that DS wanted us to do, but no one
was kind of taking over and doing it. And the
duty recruit, who was like the lead of the recruits
for the day, was supposed to do that, and that
role was ever changing. But that was something that people
wouldn't even necessarily notice if one button was missing, but
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I could look at everybody and see instantly who was off.
And that I mean it does come from being a
dancer and cleaning dances and looking at wardrobe and costumes
and so anyways, I became wardorab police. And in the
beginning day two three four, even really day no, as
they did two three and four, the boys would get
like annoyed. They'd roll their eyes at me, they'd kind
of scoff and you know what I mean, Like it
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was funny to see, but I was always I was
always right. I would never do it to be annoying.
I would never do it to tell them what to do.
I would just do it so we didn't get in trouble.
And so like they would come in and they take
their armband off and they would like leave it on
the floor, and I'd be like, put your arm band on,
otherwise you're gonna forget it. And they'd be like Jojo,
and I'd be like and they'd be like, you're right,
and I was like, I know. Anyways. One of my
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favorite memories with Tyler's I think it was like Dave
five or six. He comes up to me, he was like, hey, Jojo,
we checked my outfit and I was like, absolutely, I will.
And that moment for me was such a like, Okay,
these boys actually understand now where I'm coming from, the
fact that this grown thirty year old man's like, we've
checked my whole pretty like. I just that moment for me,
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I was like, ah, you're a good one, bro. Like
I've had to yell at these boys, and now now
not only would I check this out and be like no,
you're good, like you're in like I got them conditioned
on how to wear their wardrobe, but it was the
fact that he like wanted the like the check now.
It just it made me really really happy. Ooh, pass this,
paz d sss. I don't know how to say that.
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I'm going with pad pasts. Are you talking slash seeing
anyone right now? I bet you'd like to know fully not?
I no, no, I'm not. I'm not. I told myself
in the beginning of twenty twenty three, it's like, I'm
not dating all this year. And I talked to a
few people throughout the year. I've talked to I'd say
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two people. I would I would say two people. It's
fair to say I've talked to two different people throughout
the year. And yeah, both just never never really went anywhere.
They ended before they even started, basically and uh yeah,
miss mother and really holding me to my you ain't
dating all of twenty twenty three rule, and so good
news is the the year is almost over HILLI gray
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eil easy back with another one. They asked, did you
really have a crush on Colonie when you were young?
Absolutely not. Colonie also joined jojoun Now and we talk
all about this something she listened to it. We talk
all about my crush on her that I did not have.
But I don't know man, I mean me and Colonie.
We'd be cute together. It's never happening, but we'd be cute.
There are so many questions and I really do love
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answering them, so I would like to do a part
two to this. Everybody, stay tuned and enjoy Part two
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