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Clip Name: Unk

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family's super traditional.

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Mom and dad, both pastors kids

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grew up in a cul-de-sac.

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Every house on the block also had kids.

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So just the picture perfect Americana childhood of going to church every Sunday and

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we just played outside until the street lights came on

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my 20s, I spent a lot of time trying to find myself and my own voice.

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So I was partying a lot, drinking a lot

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had two very good friends.

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We were actually roommates

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and we would go to work and then come home and get ready and go out for the night

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And just being young and knowing, you know, people throughout the industry, we would go to some pretty big parties with different celebrities

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not uncommon for us to go out and after an event or a show or a concert end up hanging out and partying with whoever it was who was in town for

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one of my roommates

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She had gone to one of the concerts for 30 seconds to Mars years prior, a couple years prior with her mom.

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And when she was at the show, Jared singled her out from the crowd

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So he actually, and her mom were invited to go backstage after the show to meet him and hang out.

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And at that point they exchanged numbers.

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And so then from then on, anytime Jared was in town, he would text my friend and let her know, Hey, I'm here.

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Let's meet up and hang out

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particular night, I

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asked us to come out for drinks

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Honestly, it's Jared Leto, you know, Oscar winning actor.

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We're going to go out for drinks.

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This sounds like so much fun

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they were staying at the W at the time.

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So he said, just meet us at the bar.

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We're at the hotel now

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as we're approaching the bar, it was obviously dead.

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There was no one in there.

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And so we texted and said, Hey, we're here.

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I don't see anybody.

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And he said, Oh, we, I came up to the room.

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So just, just come on upstairs told us the room number.

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So we could just go on upstairs instead

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we got up to the hotel room

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let us in.

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And instead of like being ready to go out or do anything, he just sat down on the bed and there were chairs.

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So we just thought, okay, I apparently we're just going to hang out here

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he didn't even like offer us a glass of water or anything like it was, it was just very strange.

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It was very just dull.

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I is the only way I can really think to describe it.

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It was just dull

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was like, okay, so I guess we're just going to be here for a conversation.

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But then he also seemed completely disinterested in having a conversation.

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It was like pulling teeth

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So it was just I mean, really the only way I can think to describe it is stale like the energy in the room was stale.

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It was just work like the three of us are like nudging each other like, okay, you come up with something to say you come up with something to talk about

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I just remember thinking, why are we even here?

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Like, what, this isn't fun for him.

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This isn't fun for us.

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Like, why did I why did I get ready for this?

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I could be at home on my slept.

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Like this

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So then he's he I guess decided to take over the conversation and and start coming up with the topics.

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So he starts telling us about every celebrity female who he's been intimate with as

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it was very uncomfortable.

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And so at this point, I kind of feel myself retreating into myself.

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Like this is like, I'm not enjoying this conversation.

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So I wasn't really paying attention to what was going on.

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And so then my friend who was sitting next to me started nudging me again.

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that's when I looked and saw that he had actually pulled the blanket over himself had pulled his penis out of his pants and was masturbating under the covers as

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what is happening why is he doing this it was quite obvious to see that he was masturbating

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movements under the under the blanket were very obviously stroking motions up and down directly where his penis was

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Anyone got a banana?

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I can show.

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Okay, right.

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Mini cucumber.

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Maybe

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while we were sitting there he's masturbating under the covers which

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he's bragging about sleeping with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and as

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like what woman is sitting there thinking oh you've slept with so many other women let me jump aboard like

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okay, what like, what are we doing here?

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What like, this is not what we signed up for.

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And that's when he said, well, I've had lots of three sums before, but I've never had a four sum.

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And as soon as he said that the three of us just stood up simultaneously, as we all just knew we are getting out of here.

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And it was my girlfriend who said, Well, tonight's not the night that you are.

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And we just turned around and walked out of the room

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no prompt, no request, no environment where it would make sense to just pull out his penis and start playing with himself in front of us as if that was completely normal was shocking

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I don't even know that he knows that it's inappropriate to have done it.

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It was so casual and comfortable for him

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It showed me at a super young age that men want one thing from women.

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And if they're rich or powerful or famous, they don't even have to ask for it.

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They don't even have to work for it.

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We're just expected to give it to them

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um, and so when I saw the airmail article, um It wasn't shock.

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It was just oh my gosh.

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It wasn't just us This this was a pattern of behavior.

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This was Something that that Jared let oh does

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Just at what point is enough going to be enough at what point Are enough of us going to stand up and say this behavior is important this

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I think when the perpetrator is a celebrity, it's near impossible for women to speak out

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I was actually I was I was home I was visiting home.

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I was at my parents house watching the Oscars when he won I

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I just felt sick to my stomach of This is this is who we want to look up to

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that's who you want to invite into your homes in your living room as as people who violate others security and safety At what point are we going to hold ourselves and our our standards up higher and say I'm not willing to accept that behavior

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That speaks to our society and where we're at it speaks to the fact that one we don't believe women When

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and I think it's a level of acceptance.

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I think a lot of it is people just saying well, what can I do To make an impact.

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How can I stop it?

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This is what society is.

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This is this is how This is just how it is.

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So deal with that

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it's incredibly disheartening and it's going to take all of us standing up and saying no I don't have to put up with that.

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I

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until we collectively decide that that's something that's important to us Men like Gerrard Leto are still going to win Oscars and they're still going to have blockbuster movies Because it was probably the victims fault anyways

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we have decided collectively That it's much easier and safer as long as it's not happening to me.

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I'm not going to say anything

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I think people are really drawn to Jared Leto.

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There's just a mysterious air about him

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but what I realized upon meeting him and spending time with him in close quarters, it's not that there is an air of mystery.

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It's that there's just nothing behind the facade

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think the more We let people get away with the further and further they go people

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need to control and take and Coerce and manipulate that need only grows it gets bigger and bigger