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David Dobrik called the 2020 accident that seriously injured his former friend Jeff Wittek the “biggest regret” of his life.
“At the end of the day, I was the one f–king driving it. It was my video,” Dobrik, 25, said on his “VIEWS” video podcast Tuesday, taking the blame for Wittek, 32, swinging from a rope attached to an excavator vehicle that he drove.
“He got hurt because I was driving,” Dobrik went on. “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.”
He added, “I really hope there’s not a moment that I regret as much as that one.”
Dobrik even went so far as to say that he wished “it was me up there” instead of Wittek.
In a YouTube series called “Don’t Try This at Home,” Wittek blasted the vlogger in April 2021 as the “f–king idiot” behind the wheel who left him with severe facial injuries.
“I didn’t know I was going to go that fast so I grabbed the f–king rope and I tried to make a goddamn funny video for people,” he said of the June 2020 incident, “but this is where I made a mistake; I forgot the biggest f–king idiot I know was driving it.”
Wittek added on his “Jeff FM” podcast in February that he’s been “protecting this guy for so long, and there’s so much to this story than just him not texting me for a week after I had such a drastic surgery where I could’ve been blind.”
While Dobrik has verbally taken responsibility as the driver during the horrific accident, he also believes Wittek’s harsh words are due to him claiming that the whole dangerous stunt was Wittek’s brainchild.
“I think one of the main reasons Jeff is bummed with me right now is because he saw me do an interview where I said something that I promised him I’d keep between us,” Dobrik shared on the podcast Tuesday.
“He’s pissed that I broke a promise. He’s like, ‘Can you promise me one thing? Can you just promise that no one ever knows that this was my idea?’”
Wittek did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
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