Let’s talk about Ansel Elgort.
The “Baby Driver” actor and star of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming “West Side Story” remake had sexual assault allegations brought forth against him on Friday.
The story began with a young woman posting a note on Twitter, explaining her meeting with Elgort back in 2014 when he was 20 years old and she was 17. She reached out to him on social media, as a fan and, much to her surprise, Elgort replied and ended up meeting her in person. From there, the story turns into two very different perspectives: Hers and His.
She said that, sometime during the month of December 2014, they had sex and that the experience left her “traumatized.” As the sexual activity apparently happened in New York State, where the age of consent is 17, there was nothing illegal about it. It was, however, unpleasant and painful, according to “Gabby”. It was her first time. Elgort wasn’t gentle, and she told him so, but he failed to stop.
“Years later I have PTSD, I have panic attacks I go to therapy,” she wrote.
She added, “I WAS SO YOUNG AND HE KNEW THAT. He as well said stuff like, ‘you’re going to be such a beautiful young lady when you’re older.‘”
Ok, fine, the creep said that. Elgort, by all accounts, looks and acts like the douchebag next door, but there is nothing wrong with a 20-year-old dating a 17-year-old. Let’s get that out of the way. The real issue that we should be focusing on is whether the sex was consensual and, judging by her account and his (below) it looks as though it was.
Once this allegation went viral, Elgort was obviously put in a position where he had to reply. And so, much like all celeb douchebags, he went straight to Instagram, posting his denial of the allegations and that it was “a brief, legal and entirely consensual relationship.”
He said, “I was distressed to see the social media posts about me that have been circulating in the past 24 hours,” Elgort added, “I cannot claim to understand Gabby’s feelings, but her description of events is simply not what happened.”
“Unfortunately, I did not handle the breakup well,” he said. “I stopped responding to her, which is an immature and cruel thing to do to someone. I know this belated apology does not absolve me of my unacceptable behavior when I disappeared.”
His claims to insinuate that she is bitter and that she’s only bringing these issues up because he didn’t end things with her well, ghosting her instead of telling her it was over. Douchebag move, but we’ve already come to that conclusion about him.
Getting your heart broken sucks. Getting ghosted sucks. Relationships that don’t end well can result in such ugly disdain for one another, especially for the person getting the ax. Add on the pain of unanswered texts while the other goes on with their life and actually becomes a major star and, voila, a grudge could be held for years. He used her, she never got over it, and now the story is coming out of the woodwork.
[via Deadline]