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Francesca Farago has claimed she was offered ‘a decent amount of money’ to share posts slamming Hailey Bieber.
The reality star, 32, is best known for appearing on Too Hot to Handle and Love is Blind.
She’s now revealed she was asked to ‘push a narrative’ about Hailey, 28.
Hailey was recently the subject of a seven-part YouTube series, titled Hailey Bieber Exposed as a Stalker, which cruelly claimed she networked her way into meeting and marrying husband Justin Bieber, 31.
A recent social media trend called ‘met by chance’ saw girlfriends joking about how they met their boyfriends by chance, but in reality actually stalked them,
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The posts also included a clip of Hailey giggling, suggesting she had stalked Justin, claims she’s shut down.
Now Francesca has said she pushed back against a request to post a video about the trend and poking fun at Hailey.
Posting on Snapchat, she explained: ‘There’s a trend that’s like, “when my boyfriend thinks we met organically” then it slides to a photo of Hailey laughing – it’s supposed to mean that you are the stalker.’
‘Everyone is calling themselves Hailey Bieber because they stalked their man. It’s funny but it’s also mean.
‘And, sometimes, me and Jesse [her partner] get paid to do a trend on TikTok, the person who started it, or the person who owns the music on the clip pays creators to take part.’
Avoiding naming the person, she continued: ‘I got asked to do that trend, so, whoever created it, is paying creators to push a narrative and do that trend.
‘I just think that it is so mean. They offered me a decent amount of money to do it, and I was like, “no”.
‘Maybe I’m being dramatic but she’s a new mum it’s so mean, she doesn’t need to have this much hate on her.’
However, speaking to Pop Faction, the creator of the trend said she ‘wasn’t paid by anyone to make her viral video and she doesn’t actually hate Hailey’.
TMZ recently reported Hailey was considering legal action to combat various social media posts and trends claiming she is a bully and stalker.
Hailey and Justin first met backstage when he was appearing on the Today show in 2009. At the time she was 12 and a vocal fan of the Canadian singer.
After facing dating rumours for several years, in 2016 the pair confirmed they were a couple.
They were then married in 2018 and last year welcomed their son, Jack Blues Bieber.
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