Logan Paul has said “everyone deserves second chances” in his first brief interview since the controversy over his video of a suspected suicide victim in Japan.
The 22-year-old, who was interviewed Monday as he made his way into LAX airport, also agreed he had been treated “fairly” by YouTube and the public in the wake of the outrage over his footage of a dead body in the Aokigahara forest.
His comments come after YouTube announced last week it had removed Paul from its Google Preferred premium advertising service and put its forthcoming original shows with him on hold.
Asked by a TMZ reporter whether he deserved a second chance, Paul responded: “Everyone deserves second chances bro.”
The YouTuber then said he had learned “everything, so many things” from the fallout over the Aokigahara video.
Paul also nodded in agreement when he was asked whether he had been “treated fairly by YouTube and by the public?”
The comments are the first time Paul, who is one of YouTube’s biggest stars and has 15 million subscribers, has spoken publicly since his January 2nd apology for the Aokigahara video.
The video, titled “We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest…” was originally published on December 31 and was live on YouTube for around 24 hours before Paul took it down.
The footage showed close-ups of the victim's hands and was viewed more than six million times before being deleted.
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