YouTuber Jeff Wittek is speaking out against his former friend and collaboratorDavid Dobrik, revealing that he has cut the social media star out of his life.
Wittek, 32, sustained injuries to his face and skull in June 2020 after being swung on a rope tied to an excavator. Dobrik had been operating the construction equipment at the time, and footage from the moment was later posted on YouTube in April 2021. (The clip has since been deleted.)
Ina recent Patreon live stream, Wittek was asked if Dobrik, 25, had checked in on him after his most recent corrective eye surgery, to which he claimed “not a text or nothing” has come in.
“Not surprised, you know? It is what it is,” Wittek continued. “But I’m done being fake friends with that motherf—”
“I’ve been protecting this guy for so long and there’s so much to the story than just him not texting me for a week after I had such a drastic surgery where I could’ve been blind,” Wittek said on his podcast.
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Because Wittek felt like Dobrik messed him up “mentally and physically,” he said he is “not holding back anymore.”
“I’m kind of pissed off that, you know, even in the documentary we made, we sugarcoated it,” he explained, referencing hisDon’t Try This at Homedocumentary, which debuted last year. “There was so much more that I could have said but I tried to protect this guy for so long. It takes time to see people’s true colors.”
At one point, Wittek outlined his main issues with Dobrik, including how the YouTube sensation allegedly “blamed” him for the excavator incident.
“He is a scumbag friend, a fake friend, now that the documentary is over doesn’t give a f—, doesn’t text me, doesn’t check-in,” he claimed. “The other reason, him saying now, flipping the script, saying, ‘Oh, it was f—ing Jeff’s idea. He’s crazy.’ Complete bulls—.”
Additionally, Wittek recalled how Dobrik allegedly offered to cover his medical bills. But Wittek claimed Dobrik “didn’t pay a f—ing bill” and he now has “an infraction” on his credit.
“For those who think I’m trolling or I’m f—ing crazy on Instagram, honestly I could give a f— because it’s the best I’ve felt in a while getting all this s— off my chest,” he said. “It feels good to cut bad people out of your life and it took a while to see it.”
PEOPLE has reached out to Dobrik’s team for comment.
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Dobrik previously addressed his role in Wittek’s injuries, saying he didn’t “know the correct way to go about any of it.”
“It’s a little awkward for both of us. It’s not something you can just sit down with a person once and be like, ‘Okay cool, it’s over,'” he said during last year’sDon’t Try This At Homedocumentary. “All I want to do is figure out ways to help — but I don’t want to make it worse.”
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Dobrik is also set to address the controversy in Casey Neistat’supcoming documentary, titledUnder the Influence, premiering at SXSW in March.
source: people.com
