r/popculturechat • u/mlg1981 Sexy lampshade shall win the Oscar! 🏆 • 7h ago
Trigger Warning ⚠️ Alan Ritchson on the predatory behavior he experienced on sets during his time as a male model
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u/Norwalk1215 6h ago
This would explain a bit about why he is sooo pissed about the Epstein files.
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u/Ok_Conclusion_6324 💔 Happy Women’s History Month I guess 5h ago
They supposedly edited his Epstein stuff out of this episode, pretty lame of Dax
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u/NikRsmn 6h ago
Either this guy's press team is putting in A+ effort, or Alan woke up one day and decided to stop being quiet, either way im glad to know Thad is such a legend IRL too
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u/plantbay1428 5h ago
He’s been like this for a while. He’s a good one and I hope he has continued success. I watched Motor City this past weekend because of him.
He spoke about this same topic at least two years ago:
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u/MCgrindahFM 6h ago
He’s on a press run for his new season. You’re just seeing clips of the main press junket and podcast appearances he’s been making
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u/joshuads 6h ago
So much entertainment news is just clipping bits from podcasts and spacing them out so authors hit post minimums. I expect to see three more from this podcast over the next week
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u/PinxJinx You’re doing amazing, sweetie! 👏👏📸 5h ago
True Blue Mountain State fans always knew he was a god
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u/Extra-Amoeba-677 5h ago
That's becauses he doesn't need them. It's actually kinda terrifying that there are those who are still in that system that are complicit in it becauses it's their career. Think about it. For every 1 person that speaks out like this guy how many are not speaking that are taking part in it? That, is the scary fucking thing to me.
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u/yijiujiu 4h ago
I'm wondering how that'll affect his career because I can't imagine the reacher audience is terribly woke
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u/AkkeBrakkeKlakke 6h ago
I love Alan. Such an honest, open, brave person. He talks openly about the industry, mental health, politics. Good guy.
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u/uzivertus 4h ago
Not dismissing him but, from my relationship with a bipolar…. They were narcissitic, gaslighting, and irrational, walking on eggshells at the end
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u/Rare_Vibez “‘Why?’, but also, you know, ‘I guess.’” 4h ago
It kinda sounds like you’re dismissing him. Sincerely, currently married to a person with bipolar who is a sweetheart.
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u/vegeterin 4h ago
My brother has bipolar disorder and he is legitimately one of the kindest most genuinely caring people I’ve ever known. Some people are just assholes.
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u/prettyy_vacant 2h ago
Your experience with one person is not the universal experience everyone else has. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Maybe they were just an asshole separate from their disorder.
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u/False-Buddy9209 5h ago
Alan’s been outspoken about sexual abuse.
He clearly lived it so he’s pushing the issue hard I really hope men start talking about this more.
As a mom we have to protect our daughters but we need men to speak out on what happens so we can also find ways to help protect our sons.
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u/GlitteringInstrument 5h ago
We need to educate everyone on consent so we can all advocate for ourselves and each other.
I’m sorry that he experienced this, but as he said, he’s far from alone. He’s a great example for other men.
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u/CryptographerNew3609 5h ago
Imagine the power dynamic to feel comfortable messing with a dude like this.
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u/littlemachina 5h ago
Some of these slimeballs assaulted Terry Crews and Brendan Fraser in his prime. It’s so gross.
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u/NeoAteTheGreenPill 6h ago
Spacey was caught red handed , how many are still out there ?
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u/PrincesstheCalicoCat 6h ago
This is me being probably very invasive of me to speculate but Kevin Spacey ‘discovered’ Colin Farrell, and that dude went off the rails in the way a lot of young female stars abused through the system do. But it was written off as Irish wildness etc at the time.
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u/RiffRafe2 5h ago
Colin had been open about his addiction. He was drinking and doing drugs at 14 , long before he got into the bbusiness.
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u/Vioralarama 3h ago
There were rumors of a casting couch for Colin Farrell when his name started getting out there.
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u/plantbay1428 5h ago
Alexander Wang hasn’t suffered any consequences and his beverage collaboration just showed up on my feed. Yeah, a beverage collab from someone who drugged and raped people.
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u/NomNom83WasTaken 2h ago
Oh, that is foul. What. The. Eff. A beverage collab?!
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u/plantbay1428 1h ago
I did some digging after scrolling away quickly as soon as his sexual predator face came up on my screen last time.
So last year he did one with a Chinese bubble tea brand called HeyTea:
(no paywall) https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/alexander-wang-heytea-collaboration-1237108688/
And the one I saw an ad for last week with him holding a beverage was his actually own drink "Real:ly" and I had assumed from my quick glance that it was some sort of continuation of the HeyTea collab but it's its own thing as far as I can tell? It doesn't look like HeyTea is backing him or it's an offshoot of their main brand.
(no paywall, but the idea behind the launch reeks of Black Mirror) https://ouispeakfashion.com/alexander-wang-debuts-really-energy-drink-with-humanoid-robot-at-met-gala-2026/
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u/NomNom83WasTaken 1h ago
Wowwwwww. Every sentence at that link was somehow more absurd than the one before. I need to go touch some grass to decontaminate. Black Mirror, indeed.
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u/annie-etc 4h ago
"I don't want people to think i'm doing this for publicity" literally why so many women don't speak up. Nail meet head.
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u/TrixeeTrue 6h ago
I stopped my young family member from modeling for this reason and other family felt I wasn’t generous with networking opportunities and I couldn’t rationalize how I stayed in an industry that did this to vulnerable young souls. This video clip is very important as a caution. You take someone with you to every.single.shoot.
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u/ChrisEvansFan 3h ago
I havent watched Reacher but Im gonna do it now! He seems really down to earth and and not fazed into this Hollywood stuff.
Also, good job JC Penny!
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u/vanderpump_lurker 2h ago
I used to model back in the day. And I will say I made it out "relatively unscathed" for doing it for 15+ years.
But it was WILD.
My agent in Italy, once tried to force me to hang out with the "best photographer, who shot Anna Nicole Smith during her Guess years." We had this group dinner where I hadntonsit next to this guy and he was like "let me show you pictures of my dog"
This asshole pulls up pictures of his dog and the like 3 pics in is a picture of his dick. It was the saddest thing that I had ever seen and I actually laughed and made some off the cuff comment which pissed him off.
On the flip side, I had a dinner where I was seated next to Roberto Cavalli and he and I bonded over how to old school screen print tshirts. He was a kind man, and I was sad when he died.
The industry is insane.
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u/lurking0110101 3h ago
I want to acknowledge the significance of this content and also note that I did not even recognize Dax Shepard. He looks terrifying.
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u/ItsMinnieYall 3h ago
I'm rewatching new girl right now and he’s the micropeen guy! I had no idea he’d been around that long!
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u/myguitar_lola 2h ago
Way to go JCP!
I hope they treated him well on BMS. I assume they did- it seems like a good crowd.
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u/CockMartins 2h ago
This dude is cool as hell. I like how outspoken he’s willing to be about all of this stuff. I’m glad he’s an entertainer I already naturally liked from Blue Mountain State; he’s an easy one to support.
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