Influencer Indy Clinton is responding to a social media user who claimed she “looked cracked out” at the TikTok Awards.

“I don’t usually address things like this, but I thought, ‘I’m going to stand up for myself,’ because I hate when people spread untrue things about me,” Clinton, 28, said in a TikTok video posted on November 27.

Clinton explained that there is a video of her on the red carpet at the TikTok Awards that is going viral “because of the way [she] was acting.” Clinton then said she wanted to provide “a sprinkle of context” for her fans, noting that she had been working “every day and every night for the last two weeks” and was “extremely tired.”

“I got to the awards super late so I had five more minutes until the red carpet closed,” Clinton noted. “They really wanted to rush me through because the awards were about to start. You can literally hear in the video the photographers fighting with each other because one of them told me to go to the end of the carpet where he was, but you obviously have to start at one end and make your way down. But he got me there straight away because I was led there.”

She continued, “Then they start fighting in front of me, that’s why I go, ‘Oh, my God, I feel so wanted.’ Because it was so awkward. There were full-on fights because I didn’t know who to look at. It was a lot, OK? That was something that happened on the red carpet. That’s why I looked so frantic because I had no idea where to look.”

After arriving on the later side, Clinton explained that she did two interviews, including one where she was asked, “What’s your wabi-sabi?” The question referenced the Japanese phrase that has gone viral on TikTok, where creators share imperfect things they have embraced.

Clinton explained that she wasn’t familiar with the term and “didn’t want to talk about this,” seemingly pointing to her nose in the video. (Clinton was met with criticism in July when she debuted her nose job.)

“In my head I’m not mentioning this,” she said. “Because I don’t want to talk about that. I’ve just spent all afternoon getting ready. I feel really good. I didn’t want to talk about it. There are so many other things we can talk about,” she said, explaining that she described her “off-center middle part” as her wabi-sabi. “Her response was, ‘Oh, my God, I thought you were going to say your nose.’”

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Clinton claimed that the exchange was “really awkward,” alleging that she couldn’t “talk about that legally.” In the influencer’s mind, the comment was “not a nice thing to say to someone” considering the interviewer might know “how much crap [she has] copped.”

“That really threw me and that was at the very start as soon as I walked on the red carpet,” she said. “So, naturally, then I go into fighting photographers. I was really just overwhelmed. Then I was like, ‘I don’t want to be here.’”