Aussie influencer is slammed for revealing she killed two cats as a child in bizarre podcast episode

A Sydney influencer is facing backlash and has been dropped by a major sponsor after she joked on a podcast about killing two cats when she was a child.

Emma Claiir, a 28-year-old mummy blogger and Instagram model, shared the bizarre confession in the latest episode of her Just chaotic podcast.

The mom of one was asked to share a personal secret, leaving her co-host Kristy Jean baffled by confessing, “I killed my cat.”

Chuckling awkwardly, Emma continued, “I didn’t mean to… I was young, I was a child.

“I waved my cat like I thought it was just a hug. And I accidentally released it.”

Emma clarified that the animal died “from fright” of the experience, rather than injuries from being flung across the room.

After sharing a brief giggle with her co-presenter, Emma added: ‘I just want to say I’m giggling about it now. But this happened for years and years and years [ago]. And, like, I was fucking a little kid.”

Incredibly, Emma admitted that she also “accidentally killed her best friend’s cat.”

Emma, ​​who currently owns a sausage dog named Douglas, has since received a barrage of online backlash from her own fans.

She was also officially dropped as an ambassador for MCoBeauty on Wednesday morning.

The brand shared an Instagram Story post confirming the news, writing, “It has come to our attention that Emma Claiir recently shared a story on her podcast about a childhood animal abuse incident.”

“We were appalled by this story and will not be working with Emma again in the future. Here at MCoBeauty, we take cases like this extremely seriously and do not condone any form of animal cruelty,” the post continued,

She has since doubled down on her statements in a lengthy Instagram Story post this week, insisting the admission was a “bit of light humor” and that her critics should stop being so sensitive.

“To the people who are offended by my story in today’s Simply Chaotic episode I just shared… It happened 21 years ago. I was a little kid…accidents happen and you all need to chill,” she raged.

“I hope you’re not the same person you were when you were 9 years old (I could have been younger, you know hahaha)” she continued, before insisting she was “the best multi-cat mom” since the accident.

On Wednesday, Instagram becomes ‘snark’ account Influencer Updates AU drew attention to Emma’s statements, sparking outrage from her followers.

‘What the? I’m not sure I’d consider a conversation about killing 2 cats to be “a bit of light humor,” one user commented.

“I wish I wasn’t listening to that… that’s not humor at all. That is really traumatizing’, another agrees.

Someone else added, “I would have expected it to be an accident as a 2-year-old or younger, but at 9?”

However, several users jumped up to defend Emma, ​​commenting, “How does this offend people? She made a mistake as a small child.’

“Pretty gruesome, but kids are rough, and as a parent I can imagine a kid doing that,” a second user wrote.

Emma has since returned to Instagram with another fawning apology essay.

“I am well aware that the story was not light humor and in fact very serious,” she wrote in the lengthy post on Wednesday.

“It wasn’t meant to come across that way because it was just a story from the past about an accident made as a little kid, but I can see how it came across that way,” she continued.

Emma said she had “taken time to reflect on her actions” and had come to the conclusion that it was “not something she was proud of” as the incident affected her entire family.

She reiterated that she has definitely “grown up” and has been a loving pet owner for “several cats and dogs” ever since.

“Once again, my sincerest apologies to those affected by an accident that happened in the PST and I hope we can leave it at that,” she concluded.