- Dating apps present an opportunity for scammers to use others under the false pretence of love.
- Unfortunately, celebrities are not exempt from such exploitation, even with regulated dating apps like Raya.
- The 25-year-old singer Camila Cabello left one within 24 hours because she was afraid someone would use her to get a breakthrough in the music industry.
Dating apps don’t work out for everyone, but you would expect celebrities to have a good experience with such things considering their lifestyle. However, that wasn’t the case with singer Camila Cabello. During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show on Tuesday, the Havana hitmaker revealed that she once briefly joined a dating app. However, she quickly decided that the format wasn’t for her.
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“I was on a dating app for like 24 hours, then I left,” she sighed. “Because the first guy that DM’ed me was like (an) aspiring singer-songwriter from Nashville, and I was just like, ‘I feel weird because somebody could be using me’. Does that make sense?”
Camila went on to note that she would prefer to meet someone in person rather than over the Internet.
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“Yeah, you don’t know their intentions. But even that, I’m like, I don’t even know, when you are just trying to make friends, you’re going to meet guys that are vetted by your friends, which is amazing,” the 25-year-old continued.
Camila dated Shawn Mendes from July 2019 until their split in November 2021.
The star has most recently been linked to Austin Kevitch, the co-founder of the dating app Lox Club.
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