While the star certainly sounds self-aware, it seems like his mom will also help keep his feet on the ground. “I don’t think she even realizes anything about Bretman Rock,” he said. “My mom thinks that the show is only airing in the Philippines…My mom still kind of doesn’t have an idea of what I do. She has the basic knowledge of it—she knows I make videos, she knows that people see it, but I don’t think she knows how extreme it is.”
Extreme is no exaggeration. With millions of eyes tuned in to Bretman’s every digital move—and the YouTube beauty world battered by drama and scandal—the 22 year old is contemplating expanding his resumé.
“I feel like I am never done and I feel like I am always finding new interests in things and, right now, I really just want to venture out more into my talents,” he said. “I don’t want to say I want to steer away from the beauty community, but at the same time, with it being so toxic right now, I really don’t think I belong in that community and it’s not the same values as it was a couple years back. Before it was just all about makeup, our love for beauty, our love for vanity and now its become our love for fame and our love for drama and our love for hating each other. It was never about that.”
Instead, he has a few other pursuits in mind, including fashion, acting, hosting and comedy. As he said, he wants to “really train myself to be the best entertainer as I could be.”
“I genuinely think that I have what it takes,” Bretman declared, “to be the best entertainer of my time.”
New episodes of “MTV’s Following: Bretman Rock” release on MTV’s social media channels Mondays at 4 p.m. ET.
