Canadian pop star Allie X released a statement responding to a video posted to Twitter by recording artist Simon Curtis. Curtis accused her of leaving her dog, Koji, “pouring saliva” in a car “for almost 20 minutes.”
Curtis’ video shows the pop star backing out of a space in a grocery store parking lot. Allie X, who scoffs at Curtis in the video, claims he exaggerated in his account of events. She insists that Koji was never in any real danger. However, she acknowledges her mistake and says that the incident was an educational experience.
Curtis’ Accusation
Curtis called Allie X a “disgusting Karen” and asked his followers to help identify her. He claimed that he called police after he discovered a dog “pouring saliva in a locked car in the bald ass open sun with closed windows and no AC in 95 degree heat.”
Curtis went on, “We called security, the police, and stood with the car for almost 20 minutes.” The pet parent was soon identified as pop star Allie X.
anyone know this disgusting Karen? Found a golden lab panting and pouring saliva in a locked car in the bald ass open sun with closed windows and no AC in 95 degree heat at erewhon just now- we called security, the police, and stood with the car for almost 20 minutes… pic.twitter.com/Nmgouyn4GA
— Simon Curtis (@simoncurtis) August 7, 2022
Pop Star’s Response
Allie X responded to his tweets in a statement, also posted to Twitter.
The pop star said she was gone for 11 minutes. Additionally, she also turned the air conditioning down to 60 degrees and left Koji napping in the car while she “ran in and out” of the grocery store.
She wrote the following: “Koji was completely okay. I say those as facts, not defensively. I want to be clear that there was absolutely no ‘crowd forming’ around my car and absolutely nobody was ‘watching a dog die for over twenty minutes.'”
She continues, “There would be footage if that was true. I wasn’t laughing like a ‘Karen,’ I was laughing because I was frightened and uncomfortable of these two men outside of my car. These details matter, and because of the dramatizations I’ve received hundreds of attacks and death threats made more terrifying by the fact that this person posted my face and my identifiable information with the sole intent to dox me.”
Allie X added that this incident “educated” her. She also regrets doing anything that could’ve harmed Koji. “I won’t do it again,” she tweeted. Koji “is in good health.”
Regardless of Koji’s level of danger for the duration he was in the car, it’s important to note that the best amount of time to leave a dog in a car on a hot day is no time at all.
Read her full statement below.
— allie x (@alliex) August 8, 2022
