Netizens felt bad for Jisoo.
Koreaboo
34 minutes ago
Recently, BLACKPINK’s Jisoo was called out by designer Benjamin Voortmans for allegedly stealing pieces from their collection.
BLACKPINK’s Jisoo Accused Of Stealing Clothes In Bombshell Exposé
However, on May 6, the designer shared an update online, revealing that they had resolved all misunderstandings.
He uploaded a video on his social media account explaining the situation.
“I just wanted to come on here and clarify everything on the Jisoo situation. I think I’m getting a lot of hate on that and a lot of messages, and I just wanted to make everything clear, because I never actually attacked Jisoo. I also put it in the title of the first video that it was the team. I used her name to have a response from the team. So I never intended to attack her, and I don’t condone any hate online whatsoever, but yes, I did use her name because it was a part of the shoot. Her name was everywhere in the mail and stuff, but I never wanted to attack her whatsoever. I just want to make it clear that there is no misunderstanding.
The team got back to me, and everything is getting fixed, so we are happy for that. But in the first place, I never wanted to have hate towards her whatsoever. I love what she does. I love what she stands for, and I would never be here just to hate on someone or get clout. This is a really big misunderstanding between me and the fans. A lot of things are getting twisted these days, but her name was dropped, her name was there…but the response from the team was not clear for months and months, and a lot of designers were a part of it. But yeah, everything is getting cleared. I just want everyone to understand that I was getting very emotional about it and that I was very fast with my words, but we’re good now. We can move on to another chapter.”
— Benjamin Voortmans
However, K-Netizens felt bad that Jisoo’s name had to be mentioned in order to clarify the misunderstanding.
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- “The designer made Jisoo get criticized, and yet he is saying he didn’t attack her. It’s crazy that people bashed Jisoo just because of a trolling video.”
- “If he used someone else’s name for clout, then he should be able to accept the backlash.”
- “I guess he had to go this far in order for everything to get resolved.”
- “I feel bad for Jisoo.”
- “I guess they have to mention big names, seeing how fast things got resolved. The magazine is going to have to apologize to Jisoo.”
- “It’s sad to see that it only got resolved after using Jisoo’s name…this is the magazine’s fault.”