Marina Joyce: YouTuber addresses speculation and controversy around her original video in Skype interview

The fashion blogger explains she gained her bruises after falling over on a forest walk

YouTube star Marina Joyce has sought to explain a video that prompted growing alarm about her welfare in a Skype interview.

The beauty vlogger, whose YouTube following has doubled in the past few days to reach 1.3 million, has been the subject of incalculable blog posts, videos and tweets since posting a bizarre vlog in which she appears tense with bruise-like marks on the backs of her arms. Fans suggested the 19-year-old had been taken hostage at her home and others speculated over her state of mind.

Despite police visiting Joyce’s home to assure those concerned that she was “safe and well” and Joyce reassuring fans she was fine in a live video stream on Wednesday, some fans have continued to worry about her well-being.

The north London-based teenager has now attempted to clear up the growing controversy and speculation around the original video by answering a number of hard-hitting questions in a Skype interview on popular YouTube channel Scarce.

Joyce explained she was safe and thanked fans for their outpouring of support on social media.

When asked about how she had managed to accrue bruises, Joyce said she had tripped up on a walk in the forest.

“I tripped over in a forest because I like to go for walks,” she told the interviewer. “And I had quite a bad walk so it was really upsetting for that to happen. But yeah I just tripped in a forest and yeah it was quite a sad thing that happened that was just that I tripped over. It was just that I fell over and it was nothing else basically and I love you guys.”

When questioned about fans' remarks on how much she has changed over recent months, Joyce explained it was due to the natural process of growing up.

“Just naturally, I’ve obviously grown up and I can’t help but change naturally so I’m sorry for anyone that has thought that I’ve changed but I literally haven’t and I’m totally fine so I just want people to know that,” she said.

Joyce was also asked about why she often repeated her words while speaking. “I don’t know. I just don’t know. Just maybe because I just do that naturally, I just naturally do that maybe,” she reflected.