Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
This YouTuber Was Murdered By Her Biggest Fan - The Christina Grimmie story
01 Feb 2025
Youtuber and singer Christina Grimmie was murdered by her own fan after a concert in Orlando Florida.
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So this influencer is about to get unalived by her own fan. Now the influencer, her name's Christina, and Christina loves to sing. And one day, when she's about 15, her friend convinces her to post a video of her singing a cover of a Hannah Montana song on YouTube. So she does. And to Christina's surprise, pretty quickly the video gets a little traction. Tens of thousands of views. Not bad.
But most importantly, people like it. And they like her. And some of these people, they start sending her requests for her to cover other songs. And so she does. And she posts another and then another. And soon she's posting all these cover songs on YouTube and she starts building up a decent following.
And after about two months of this, her followers request that she cover Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On. And so Christina does. And she posts it and it blows the f*** up. And that is when this woman sees it. Her name's Mandy. And Mandy's like, damn, this girl can sing. Here's the thing about Mandy, though. Mandy just happens to be Selena Gomez's mom and her manager.
So Selena Gomez's mom and her stepdad, this guy, At this time, they both manage Selena together. So stepdad, aka Selena's manager, reaches out to Christina and they offer to represent her and soon Christina's got a manager. So then she works with a big vocal coach and she releases an EP and then boom, Selena Gomez asks her to go on tour with her as her opening act.
And they actually become really good friends.
And there's Selena Gomez right there.
There's Selena. And so Christina's star just keeps rising. Her YouTube channel's blowing up, she's getting all kinds of subscribers, and she wins a YouTube singing competition, and she and her family move out to Los Angeles so she can pursue making music full-time. And she goes ahead and makes a full-length album.
But then, she's around 19 years old at this point, she auditions for The Voice, the television show. And she gets cast in the show, and Christina comes out on stage, and she absolutely nails it. And she's clearly the fan favorite, and she comes in third place overall, which is just amazing. A few years after that, she's like 22 at this point, she goes out on tour again.
And big, big, big thank you to everyone that has been coming out on tour to come see me.
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