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Demi Lovato appears to have been iced out of an attempt to apologise to a frozen yoghurt shop in Los Angeles after she publicly shamed the small business for carrying a large number of sugar-free options and claimed they had succumbed to “diet culture.”
On Wednesday, the Bigg Chill froyo shop took to Instagram to address a “photoshopped” conversation, claiming that Lovato had donated to the local institution.
The 36-year-old company wrote to fans who had inquired about Lovato’s ostensibly grand gesture that she had not donated any money, which wouldn’t have mattered because they didn’t want her to in the first place.
“Our menu has remained unchanged. Demi hasn’t said anything since her apology for her song “Sorry, Not Sorry” on Monday. We haven’t heard anything from her team “the addition of a donation statement
Along with the statement and the “photoshopped” conversation, the Westwood hot spot also shared a screenshot of an exchange they had with a fan who said they planned to stop by because “Demi was nice for a change,” to which the fan was told that “Demi Lovato and her team have been anything but nice to us.”
The establishment told Fox News on Wednesday that someone had “photoshopped all that and sent it out,” and that “people are still interested in this story.”
Cary Russell and her daughter Diane Dinow, the mother-daughter owners of The Bigg Chill, told Fox News earlier this week that the whole situation was “comical,” including Lovato’s half-hearted apology.
“We were definitely perplexed because [Lovato’s public criticism] had come out of nowhere,” Russell and Dinow added.
Meanwhile, after facing backlash for her comments, the pop star apologised, saying that her message had been “misconstrued” and that she was “sorry that I may have gotten the messaging wrong.” She also apologised if she offended anyone.
They said they haven’t spoken to Lovato directly yet, but that her camp had reached out to clear the air at the time.
Russell stated, “Of course, there is no malice.” ‘We’ve been here for almost 40 years, and we hope to continue to be a fixture here for many more.”
