Brooke Schofield's claims that ex-boyfriend Clinton Kane lied about his mum's death, explained

Even if you haven't heard of Brooke Schofield and Clinton Kane before last week, your TikTok feed is probably pretty confusing right about now.

Allow me to catch you up to speed. The popular Cancelled co-host, who boasts 1.5 million TikTok followers on her personal account, is accusing her ex-boyfriend — a musician with 2 million of his own followers on the app — of not only faking his Australian accent, but lying about the death of his mother and brother throughout their relationship.

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But he wasn't just lying to her, Schofield says. According to the podcaster, Kane has released songs about his mother's death and discussed her passing in interviews. Meanwhile, a representative for Kane tells Rolling Stone that Schofield's claims are “untrue,” despite the fact that his biological mother is, in fact, alive.

Here's everything you need to know about Schofield's very own version of Reesa Teesa's Who the Fuck Did I Marry series… because this is truly unhinged.

Give me the TL;DR

On 27 June, Tana Mongeau's Cancelled co-host Brooke Schofield released a 14-part TikTok series claiming Chicken Tendies singer Clinton Kane lied about growing up in Australia, the death of multiple family members, and other details about his life during their relationship, which ended two years ago. And that's not even why they broke up!

Wait, I need more. What’s the background here?

According to Schofield, she and Kane began dating after he slid into her DMs, eventually inviting her to his concerts in California. While the influencers disagree about the length of their relationship (a rep for Kane says they dated for three months, while Schofield says they were together for six), Schofield's timeline seems to line up with his I'm Not Toxic I Swear tour in late 2021.

Following one concert, Schofield says she and Kane went to a late-night diner where they talked for hours. “He tells me his mum, his dad and his brother all died in the same year, which is fucking horrible, like, obviously just unimaginable. So I'm like, blown away,” she says in part three.

Despite the fact that Kane was based in Las Vegas and Schofield lived in Los Angeles, she says they were “never separated” during their time together. However, Schofield says their relationship quickly became tumultuous, claiming he would often say she was “worsening his trauma" during arguments. “[He'd say] I remind him so much of his mother who was so horrible to him and I should be way more sensitive to everything that he is going through,” she said. “And of course I’m like, I get that, you know what I mean? The man lost three family members in one year.”

Schofield says she grew suspicious of his entire life story not long after discovering he allegedly cheated on his ex with multiple women, including herself. In July 2022, Kane spoke about his mother's death on his then-best friend Zach Sang's podcast, The Zach Sang Show, which is when everything took a turn for the bizarre.

During the interview, Kane laughs when Sang brings up the death of his mum, who Sang had begun to say “is” a pentecostal church pastor, before remembering their alleged passing and switching to the past tense. “You can laugh about it?” Sang asks him before Kane confirms he was amused by Sang's blunder. (Before the conspiracy theorists start, Sang's error seemed like a natural mistake, not like the podcast host was aware Kane's mother was alive.)

“Everyone, my mum's dead,” Kane says to the camera, still laughing.

According to Schofield, Kane was determined to get the interview taken down, so she decided to check the video's comments section. Schofield then says she saw a comment from someone claiming to have grown up with Kane in Brunei (i.e. not Australia) and that his mum was alive.

Schofield says she was able to find his mother on Facebook and discovered she was not a rich blonde Norwegian woman like he had claimed. But did she leave him at that point? No. “When I tell you this man is so good at his job,” Schofield said of their confrontation about her discovery. Though she wasn't positive his mum was alive at that point, she says she knew he at least “lied about the conditions in which he grew up.”

Instead of confessing, Schofield said Kane made her “feel so fucking horrible for ever possibly accusing him of lying about something like that.” It wasn't until she discovered that Kane was allegedly unfaithful during their relationship that he broke up with her for accusing him of cheating. Finally, she says she had the “confidence” to ask about his family again, pretending she had spoken to his mother.

“That got him,” she said in part 13. “He finally admitted that he did, in fact, fake the death of his mum and his brother.” She then joked, “I guess it's like a positive. If you think about all his songs about how he wishes he could just talk to his mum one more time, it's like, ‘call her.’”

Why is this all happening now?

If they broke up two years ago, why is this all coming out now? Well, that's actually an important part of this story. In truth, Schofield has discussed portions of this story prior to her TikTok series, but has avoided laying everything out there in such a detailed manner. Even her podcast co-host Mongeau discussed Kane's alleged lies on The Zach Sang Show in April 2023. “We all were like, ‘Fuck yeah, marry him,’” Mongeau said of the relationship. “And then it was like, ‘Fuck yeah, run.’”

While Schofield's fan base was well aware of the allegations against Kane, it remained a niche TikTok drama story until Kane appeared to shade Schofield on TikTok while promoting new music. “When you've been over the relationship for 2 years but she won't stop yapping,” he wrote on TikTok on 25 June.

What's that saying about sleeping dogs? Schofield responded to his post with her 14-part series. “He said, ‘she can’t stop yapping,' I'm like, ‘I’ll show you yapping,'" Schofield said in part seven of her series.

“Anyway, it has now been two years since we've broken up, and he had the nerve to post a TikTok today saying that I cannot let it go, and I just want to go on record and say, ‘No fucking shit,’” she concluded her series in part 14. “Apparently, his new song comes out on Friday, and the man will do anything to get a stream. So honestly, you guys, do him a service. He needs money for therapy.”

What does the Internet think?

Oh, it's safe to say the vast majority of the internet is Team Brooke. “At the beginning of this week, I had never even heard the names Brooke Schofield and Clinton Kane,” TikTok user KJ Miller said in her own video, which has over 100,000 views and 28,000 likes. “That was the before times. Here in the after times, I feel like Brooke and I are besties.”

Schofield's circle of TikTok celebrities are probably the most vocal. “This is a Lifetime movie, Grace," Barstool's Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia told her Plan Bri co-host Grace O'Malley during their latest podcast episode. “Imagine the trust issues. And like, [Brooke] talks about it online like it's kind of funny and a joke, because that's how she copes with things. But he put her through fucking hell, to the point where she couldn't be a person, and for him to go on TikTok and say she's yapping?!”

Mongeau has also been making her own posts, praising Schofield and calling out Kane for allegedly “deleting his comments.”

Has Kane responded to Schofield's series?

He sure has. Not only have the comments section on his most recent TikTok posts been turned off, but his rep has spoken to multiple outlets about Schofield's series. "Clinton Kane and Brooke Schofield had a brief, three-month relationship over two years ago,” the rep said in a statement sent to Rolling Stone on 27 June. “Brooke’s recent comments regarding Clinton are untrue.”

According to Kane's rep, the musician had not been referring to his biological mother, but “a very special mother-like figure in his teenage years, who sadly passed."

“Clinton genuinely felt that he had lost an irreplaceable mother figure," the statement continued. "Clinton was and largely is estranged from his immediate family.”

In the statement, which was also sent to People, the rep also mentioned that “Kane was born in the Philippines, and lived in Australia for a time as a child. Despite moving frequently, he considers Australia to be his home. He has never been disingenuous about this.”

And while it appears as if Kane kicked off this controversy with his recent TikTok post, Kane's rep claims "the public rehashing of these details is only an attempt to bring attention and focus on Brooke's podcast, at the expense of tearing down another former boyfriend — a tactic she's become known for.” The statement concluded, “In the years since this relationship took place Clinton has moved forward, and remains focused and committed to putting out new music.”

Schofield's response to People? "Hahahaha."

On 28 June, Schofield took to TikTok to break down his statement piece by piece, starting with his claim that they only dated for three months . “Why on earth would I want people to think I dated you longer than I did?” she asked in one video.

Schofield also denies Kane's claim that he'd been referring to a “mother-like figure” when speaking about his loss. “I was his girlfriend,” she said. “I was getting stories from like the time he was born to the present, okay? With names, all right, which is how I looked his little mum up to begin with. Okay, there was one mum, all right? It's the same mum I heard about every single day, and that is the one he killed off, and that is the one who is chilling in Brunei.”

In another response video, she hit back at the rep's claim that she's using Kane's name to benefit her podcast, saying, "I brought this to my TikTok audience for one reason only, okay? It is because that man called me a yapper."

She went on to claim a Rolling Stone editor had reached out to her to discuss Kane's “backstory” in 2023. “Ultimately, I decided I wanted no involvement,” she said, providing screenshots of an alleged conversation the editor. “As you can see here, I feared for his mental health. Okay, I didn't want anything to do with that because I couldn't do it in good conscience. Even offered to let me do it anonymously and I ghosted them.”

And what about her podcast? “I mean this in the most humble way possible," Schofield said. "Cancelled amasses more listeners in one singular week than Clinton Kane has in an entire year.”

As one user responded, “The Rolling Stone receipts MY MOUTH IS AGAPE.”

What should I tell my friends about this?

We've all got to start doing thorough background checks on our Hinge dates.

This story originally appeared on GLAMOUR US.