An influencer confessed to killing 2 cats as a child, then said the people who got upset with her 'all need to chill'

• Emma Claiir casually said in a podcast that she killed her childhood cat and her best friend's pet.
• Claiir wrote on Instagram that what she said was "light humour" and that people need to "chill."
• A beauty brand axed their partnership with the Australian influencer after her comments.

An Australian influencer said during a podcast that when she was a child, she killed her cat by swinging it around — and when she received backlash, she said people upset with her need to "chill."

Emma Claiir said during an episode of the "Simply Chaotic" podcast that she killed a cat when she was a child, drawing a gasp from her co-host, Kristy Jean.

"I didn't mean to. I was young, I was a child and I was like swinging my cat around. Like I was just thinking it was like a stuffed toy, and I accidentally let go of it," Claiir said. The clip of Claiir's comments was posted to TikTok by Australian media outlet News.com.au.

 

"It died from the fright," Claiir said in the podcast episode released on Tuesday. She added that her sister did not speak to her for months and her mother was "fuming." 

Claiir added that she "also killed" her "best friend's cat."

A video of the episode posted to YouTube on April 18, did not include the clip of Claiir talking about her dead cat.

Nonetheless, Claiir's comments drew flak from her followers, per News.com.au. She posted an Instagram story on Tuesday, where she said her comments about the cat were "a bit of light humour" and that the people upset with her "all need to chill."

"Again sorry not sorry for an accident that happened over 20 years ago," Claiir wrote on her Instagram story on Wednesday, per screenshots viewed and published by News.com.au and Buzzfeed News.

She added: "It's a bit of light humor in a get to know us episode and If you can't handle that then simply chaotic ain't for you. So byeeeee." 

Claiir also uploaded a separate statement on her Instagram account on Wednesday, seen by News.com.au and the New York Post, where she clarified that she is "well aware that the story was not light humour and in fact very serious."

Brands like MCO Beauty, an Australian cosmetics company, were quick to cut ties with the influencer. 

"It has come to our attention that Emma Claiir recently relayed a story on her podcast discussing an incident of animal cruelty from her childhood. We are dismayed by this story, and will no longer be working with Emma in the future," MCO Beauty wrote on its Instagram story this week. 

The "Simply Chaotic" duo did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.