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‘I still bite’: Nadine Lustre claps back at comments on her TikTok dance

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<blockquote cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@nadinelustre/video/6945799224667819266" class="tiktok-embed" data-video-id="6945799224667819266" style="max-width:605px;min-width:325px"><section><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@nadinelustre" target="_blank" title="@nadinelustre">@nadinelustre</a><div> </div><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-OPPO-Philippines-6944255997200403201" target="_blank" title="♬ original sound  - OPPO Philippines">♬ original sound - OPPO Philippines</a></section></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>MANILA — Nadine Lustre said she is not bothered by comments “sh***ing on me” on her recent TikTok dance video, pointing out that it has nearly drawn 5 million views.</p><p>“Btw, 4.7m [views],” she tweeted on Thursday. “Couldn’t care less if it was people sh***ing on me. It gave good analytics.”</p><p>Addressing her fans, “Ya’ll can chill now. No need to make bantay to defend. Grateful for all of you.”</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">or views.<br/>yall can chill now. no need to make bantay to defend.<br/>grateful for all of you 🤍</p>— Nadine Lustre (@hello_nadine) <a href="https://twitter.com/hello_nadine/status/1379987561947361286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Lustre, 27, did not mention specific comments which prompted her statement.</p><p>The views she was referring to was for her TikTok clip last week, where she performed a choreography as part of a campaign for a smartphone brand.</p><p>“People are always so thirsty to shit on someone,” Lustre wrote in a subsequent tweet.</p><p>“I&#x27;ve always been bullied since I was younger, so I’m totally used to it. I’ve become bullet proof. I’m very much concerned for people who don’t have the same mental [and] emotional load as me,” she said.</p><p>Without mentioning an individual, Lustre added, “At the end of the day, pretty sure there are reasons as to why people act a certain way.”</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I&#x27;ve always been bullied since I was younger, so im totally used to it. I&#x27;ve become bullet proof.<br/>Im very much concerned for people who don&#x27;t have the same mental + emotional load as me.</p>— Nadine Lustre (@hello_nadine) <a href="https://twitter.com/hello_nadine/status/1379995442264465411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>She then made a reference to the popular “RuPaul’s Drag Race” reality series, where “bullies eventually come clean” at the end of each episode.</p><p>“So girl, let’s talk,” Lustre said.</p><p>While Lustre did not name an individual in her tweets, some of her avid followers mentioned the dance group A-Team, whom she recently collaborated with.</p><p>A number of Lustre’s fans accused members of A-Team of supposedly making snide remarks on her dance video. As of writing, A-Team has yet to respond to those allegations.</p><p>When a fan asked Lustre why she affords to still be kind despite being the target of “bashing,” Lustre said, “Because it takes a lot more time and effort to be unkind... and I have so much shxt to do.”</p><p>In an apparent warning to her critics, however, Lustre added: “I still bite sometimes… Still a btch. I just don’t have time.”</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">jk.<br/>still a btch. I just don&#x27;t have time <a href="https://t.co/L70KdghP21">pic.twitter.com/L70KdghP21</a></p>— Nadine Lustre (@hello_nadine) <a href="https://twitter.com/hello_nadine/status/1380013214210039809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div><strong>Related videos:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OoP3o7p3v9U?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LwOKAayMU3w?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1657284" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>“Btw, 4.7m [views],” she tweeted on Thursday. “Couldn’t care less if it was people sh***ing on me. It gave good analytics.”</p>

“Btw, 4.7m [views],” she tweeted on Thursday. “Couldn’t care less if it was people sh***ing on me. It gave good analytics.”