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22-year-old Arzaylea calls out Pacquiao: I didn't start our chat

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/09/28/arzaylea-pacquiao-092817.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>Arzaylea Rodriguez is now contradicting Manny Pacquiao&#x27;s claims that she was the one who started their online conversation.</figcaption></figure></div><p>It was already a little awkward when he puzzlingly chatted up a 22-year-old girl online. </p><p>But things just got a tad more complicated for senator and boxing champ Manny Pacquiao after the same girl called him out Thursday for saying that she was the one who started their conversation. </p><p>The boxer-politician <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/27/17/walang-malisya-pacquiao-explains-comments-on-womans-livestream">defended his controversial presence</a> in the young woman&#x27;s Instagram live video chat by denying any malice in the comments he left. He also claimed that it was not him that asked the first question. </p><p>Replying through Twitter, however, the girl, Arzaylea Rodriguez, an Instagram star who has nearly half a million followers, denied this and said: &quot;I definitely didn’t engage in conversation with him first.&quot; </p><p>Rodriguez added that she found it surprising that Pacquiao would join one of her live video chats. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">WATCH: Sen. Pacquiao admits commenting on live video of IG star Arzaylea Rodriguez; says Rodriguez was first to engage conversation with him <a href="https://t.co/pKYmP5zQfM">pic.twitter.com/pKYmP5zQfM</a></p>— ABS-CBN News (@ABSCBNNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/912932569296994304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>It was just this week when Instagram users noticed that Pacquiao, 38, made comments on a video of Rodriguez, with screen captures showing him asking the pretty brunette, &quot;Where are you from?&quot; </p><p>Rodriguez is an Instagram style star of sorts, never shy in sharing to her thousands of fans her outfits. She rose in popularity when she dated 5 Seconds of Summer frontman Luke Hemmings. </p><div class="media-content"><div class="slider-for"><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/09/28/arzaylea-1.jpg?ext=.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/09/28/arzaylea-2.jpg?ext=.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/09/28/arzaylea-3.jpg?ext=.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/09/28/arzaylea-4.jpg?ext=.jpg"/></div></div><div class="media-content slider-desc"><div class="item-desc"><div><cite>Photo from @arzaylea on Instagram</cite></div></div><div class="item-desc"><div><cite>Photo from @arzaylea on Instagram</cite></div></div><div class="item-desc"><div><cite>Photo from @arzaylea on Instagram</cite></div></div><div class="item-desc"><div><cite>Photo from @arzaylea on Instagram</cite></div></div></div></div><p>She appears to be a feisty type, who is unafraid in making headlines. Just last month, she risked being bashed by fans of Hemmings&#x27; band when she <a href="http://myxph.com/features/32444/look-luke-hemmings-ex-girlfriend-blasts-5sos">claimed that it was the singer who cheated on her</a> and caused their breakup last May. </p><p>But Rodriguez isn&#x27;t the only one that piqued Pacquiao&#x27;s curiosity. </p><p>He was also seen <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/trending/09/28/17/call-me-anytime-pacquiao-says-in-chicks-in-the-office-hosts-live-video-chat">striking an online conversation</a> with Maria Ciuffo, an American who co-hosts the Instagram vlog &quot;Chicks in the Office.&quot; </p><p>Pacquiao <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/trending/09/28/17/gusto-nila-ng-interview-pacquiao-nilinaw-ang-call-me-anytime-sa-chicks-in-the-office-host">explained</a> that the reason why he told Ciuffo that she can &quot;call him anytime&quot; was because she was asking if she could score an interview with him. </p><p>&quot;Chicks in the Office&quot; was cooked up by Barstool Sports, a U.S.-based sports and men&#x27;s lifestyle website. </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:62.5% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BZbinp_he4O/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by @mariaaciuffo</a> on <time dateTime="2017-09-24T16:23:06+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Sep 24, 2017 at 9:23am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="http://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Rodriguez reacted to the whole brouhaha over him and Pacquiao by sharing articles on the topic on her Twitter and saying that she&#x27;s &quot;gone international.&quot; </p>

<p>It was already a little awkward when he puzzlingly chatted up a 22-year-old girl online. But things just got a tad more complicated for Manny Pacquiao. </p>

It was already a little awkward when he puzzlingly chatted up a 22-year-old girl online. But things just got a tad more complicated for Manny Pacquiao.