In case you missed it, someone leaked a very lengthy WhatsApp chat log that was a private chat group between over 50 Gushcloud bloggers.

For the gossipy Singaporean, the chat log was a source of personal details particularly on people related to blogger Xiaxue, including her close friends and family members.

So with the leak, what has the participants of the chat got to say for themselves?

We share excerpts of what some have said:

Yan Kay Kay

She explained that what was said in the chat group was done with the expectation that the chat remained private:

Woke up to so much hate. Yes I've cleaned up my act on my social media platforms, but I'm still bitchy ok? I'm also human. I have emotions when attacked first, I have opinions that don't please the whole world, and some days I can still be as mean as I used to be. I just CHOOSE not to take my fights out publicly anymore. This is NOT an excuse but everyone bitches no? Don't tell me nothing was ever said about me behind my back. Those chats were meant to be private and never meant to hurt anyone. I was attacked again and again, accused of something I didn't do, and mocked and slammed repeatedly cos of it, how nice you want me to be?? Trying to be classy here doesn't mean I'm not furious or hurt or hateful now. But if those private chats hurt anyone, I'm sorry. They were never meant for your eyes.

A photo posted by Kay Kay (@yankaykay) on Dec 12, 2014 at 10:47pm PST

Xavier Ong

He explained that because of the private nature of the chat group, comments made about Xiaxue and Xiaxue's brother were not meant as an attack.

Here's what he said:

"Kay Kay was also attacked for making personal attacks to Wendy and the people around her like her brother or her baby Dash. But this was all, as I have said repeatedly, supposed to be in PRIVATE. These comments were not supposed to have any effect on Wendy or any of the supposed innocent people around her. It simply makes no logical sense to take something that was never meant to be public and call it an attack. A personal attack is an attempt to defame someone. How can you say that anyone in that group was making an attempt to defame Wendy if none of the comments we made were ever meant to be public. If you ask me, the person that leaked all these online is the one that turned comments, made in private, among people that were supposed to be trustworthy, into something that one might be able to perceive as an attack."

He added that he would hunt down the person who leaked the chat:

"I understand that the reason behind this leak is that we probably trusted the wrong person. Someone we thought we could trust has betrayed us and it makes me sick to my stomach. I will personally take it on myself to find this traitor and make sure he/she regrets making a personal attack to me, and more importantly, my family."

Tyler Ng

Ng addressed allegations that he may be the mole that leaked the WhatsApp chat:

"I've been tagged by numerous troll accounts who have bluntly accused me of being the mole in gushcloud. When questioned, they say it's because I'm the only person without a " colon ".

As I look through the group chat posted online, all I can think of is ..... WHAT COLON?

I seriously do not understand how these people come to the conclusion that I'm the mole merely because of that colon shit and I've been asking around what they're talking about too!

Apparently no one understands -_-"

For readers who, like Ng, have no idea what the colon in question is:

It appears that in several portions of the chat log, Tyler Ng's messages were missing the colon after his name while this was not the case for all others in the chat log.

Shine Koh

Koh offered an apology if she 'had hurt anyone' because of the WhatsApp leak:

"I felt the responsibility to apologise for any hurt/harm unintentionally caused on my part.

If you have read the conversation and felt angry, I do not blame you for your after-thoughts. However, I do know what I have said and not said in the chat. If I have been accused of saying things that I did not, I will prefer to clarify instead of being maligned.

Did I make mean comments about Wendy or other parties in the conversation? No.

However, if the sharing in a whatsapp group chat, of the snapshots of the comments I read on Wendy's blog post and fan page and what I found on google, had hurt anyone, I am sorry.

Some of you may think it is not appropriate to share them in a group chat with 58 other fellow Gushcloud people. I understand. I understand that by sharing the information, despite them being readily available online,

I was involved in gossiping in the group chat, even though I did not add in mean comments. Therefore, I would like to apologise if that has hurt/affected anyone. Yes, I have reflected on that part, & realised what I should not have done."

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