David Dobrik is facing legal action. The American YouTuber is quite famous for his vlogs with more than 18 million subscribers. His videos usually comprise of pranks or comedy bits with his friends, who call themselves the ‘vlog squad’. Jason Nash, Natalie Mariduena, Zane Hijazi, Heath Hussar, Scotty Sire, Toddy Smith, and Jeff Wittek are part of the gang.
Recently, Dobrik had a falling out with his pal Jeff Wittek. Things have gotten so bad that Wittek is suing him for $10 million in damages. So, what exactly happened?
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Jeff Wittek Is Suing David Dobrik Over Stunt Gone Wrong
According to court documents obtained by E! News on June 23, Jeff Wittek is suing YouTuber David Dobrik for damages relating to “general negligence and intentional tort.” It is with regards to a near-fatal accident that Wittek suffered in June 2020.
In the complaint filed in Los Angeles, California, the former Vlog Squad member said that due to the actions of Dobrik, he has suffered from “wage loss, hospital and medical expenses, and loss of earning capacity.” In Wittek’s 2021 YouTube docu-series titled ‘Don’t Try This At Home,’ the YouTuber shared details behind the incident that he said caused damage to both his face and skull.
Explaining that he was trying to make a funny video with a group of vloggers while they were in Utah, Wittek said that at one point, the group had decided to place an excavator vehicle in a lake and swing people around from a rope. In his video, he said that Dobrik was in the driver’s seat of the excavator when it was his turn to participate.
“I tried to make a goddamn funny video for people, but this is where I made a mistake,” Wittek had revealed in the April 2021 episode. “I forgot the biggest f–king idiot I know was driving it.”
Dobrik Calls The Stunt “The Worst Thing” That Has Happened To Him
Almost a year later, Dobrik addressed the incident on his ‘VIEWS’ video podcast. “The Jeff thing is the f–king worst. That day is like, the worst, the worst thing that’s ever happened to me and I wish I would f–king do anything to take that day back and be like, I wish it was me up there. And it’s a s–tty—it’s an accident. That’s what it was. It’s an accident,” Dobrik said in the March 2022 episode.
He added, “At the end of the day, I was the one f–king driving it. It was my video. He got hurt because I was driving. That’s it and I f–king know that and like I said, any chance I would get, I would take that back…That’ll be the biggest regret of my life. My entire life. I really hope there’s not a moment that I regret as much as that one.”
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