Allie X is setting the record straight. The Canadian pop star shared a statement on Monday, responding to backlash over a video that was posted to Twitter about her leaving her dog in the car while shopping in California. READ MORE: Allie X Celebrates Valentine’s Day With New Cover Of Roxette’s ‘It Must Have Been Love’ The video was posted by singer Simon Curtis, who said in the thread that he saw the dog panting and drooling in the car with the windows rolled up, and stayed by the car for 20 minutes while calling security and the police.
Curtis also claimed that when Allie returned and was confronted about leaving her dog in the car without air conditioning in 35-degree Celsius weather, she rolled her eyes and laughed.
Though Curtis did not know Allie’s identity, users on Twitter quickly identified her from the video. In her statement, Allie explained that before leaving her dog, Koji, she had turned the air conditioning down low in order to get the temperature down.
She added that checking her grocery shopping receipt, she had only been away from the car for 11 minutes, not 20, as Curtis had claimed, and that the car was still cool inside when she got back. “Koji was completely okay.
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