Diplo Responds to Backlash Over Living Arrangement With 19-Year-Old TikTok Star

Diplo responded to the backlash on Monday, insisting Quenlin was just a friend / tenant.

"OK so I rent one of my properties to @quenblackwell. And yes I use the studio that is in that building," he tweeted. "Her social media is sarcastic and chaotic and I can see you can get a twisted idea but there is nothing but a friendship between us."

He added: "As a landlord I don't really consider age or race as a qualification. U just gotta pay security deposit. And don't poke holes in the walls or ruin my carpet."

When someone asked what he had in common with a 19-year-old, he replied: "We made music together."

The DJ then got into a questions and answers session with followers, and addressed some old and questionable tweets:

Quenlin addressed the living situation on Sunday, telling followers Diplo is just a friend.

"i'm an adult. i'm not being groomed," she wrote. "platonic relationships exist."

"i'd rather break both of my legs and be forced to walk than pursue diplo romantically and he'd rather choke."

She said the DJ was barely ever in LA anyway, and that he had given her the security and opportunity to create, describing him and his team as her mentors and safety net.

"diplo and his team have saved me numerous times from the weirdos in LA," she wrote.

"my parents trust him. i trust him. y'all are making me feel icky. diplo is my LA dad... nothing more."

She did however seem quite bemused at all the media attention:

Quenlin Blackwell is living with Diplo

The 19-year-old TikTok star stunned her fans on Wednesday when she casually mentioned that she shares a home with the 41-year-old superstar DJ.

Lying in bed, the teenager was fielding questions from her 4million followers who wanted to know if she ever gets noise complaints from her neighbors over her rambunctious video shoots.

"I live with Diplo right now, and he fully supports my endeavors," she smiled — and seemed bemused that her fans found the news so shocking.

To prove it, she got out of bed and filmed herself walking into another room, and indeed there stood the Major Lazer founder, hoodied with tongue sticking out.

Pressed by followers for background on how the surprising living arrangement came to be, Quen briefly interviewed her housemate on camera.

"Why do I live with you?" she asks.

"I have no other friends," he replies, forlorn. "It's the truth."

With fans still reeling at the revelation, Quenlin created a spur of the moment new TikTok series: Living With Diplo.

"Since y'all care so much about me living with Diplo, I just started a series called living with Diplo'," she giggled.

The brief episodes include the Peloton he has in her bedroom, how he struggles to tie his shoelaces, the music he listens to after conversations about Mark Wahlberg, and a behind-the-scenes at a music video shoot.

"he's doing a live stream concert so i'm being a supportive child and bringing him cheezits," she captioned one.

Mississippi-born Diplo has never been married, but has three children: two with ex Kathryn Lockhart, and one with Trinidadian model Jevon King.

He counts Katy Perry among his exes, and last year was named by Sia as one of a very small list of men she is attracted to, to whom the offer of no-strings sex is open.