A video of Jessica49 working out in the gym from her Twitch live became viral in late January. Jessica was exercising when a man behind her was accused of “sexualizing” her after attempting to assist her in attaching a plate to the barbell she was using for hip thrusts.
After Jessica received a call from fitness celebrity Joey Swoll, who took issue with her calling the man a “dumb piece of crap,” he indicated he might have been merely attempting to assist her in mounting the weight plate on the deadlift bar. As a result, her video went viral. Any skilled lifter is aware that holding a barbell on the ground makes it difficult to perform a plank, according to Swoll. He approaches you as a skilled lifter when he notices that you are having difficulty because that is what nice people do.
You are not one of the women who are subjected to harassment at the gym, which needs to stop. You are not a victim because of a pleasant gesture or a glance. Days after the video went public, Jessica apologized to the man and to everyone she offended with her comments during the broadcast, calling the situation a “major error” in a post to Twitlonger.
She said, “I want to genuinely apologize to the gym guy who began this whole thing. He didn’t hurt me, and I exaggerated our exchange excessively.
It truly opened my eyes to how much this may harm him, she said, after reading hundreds of comments about me, the circumstance, and the man. “Men and women approach the other sex in very different ways, and to be put in this circumstance after viewing it from the perspective of an innocent male. In all honesty, I feel sick to my stomach with guilt.
Jessica continued by calling her behavior toward the viewers “extremely immature” and expressing her desire to “never hurt someone like that again.” The influencer also said she will delete the video from all of her social media accounts, but claimed her Twitlonger apologies “didn’t help.”
Jessica’s statement has not received a response from Joey Swoll as of yet, but we’ll be sure to let you know on Dexerto when he does.
