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"Her career, and it was a very, very good career, was over instantly. Absolute insanity for a half second nip slip."

"It was an adult theatre showing adult movies, but the double standard still existed that you couldn't just whip it out and JO in the theatre. Then he got publicly labeled a weirdo, sexual deviant, creep. I don't think the crime fit the punishment. But his audience in the hollywood spotlight was mostly kids, soooo, yea.."

"shoplifted $5,000 from an upscale retail store and couldn’t get a part for YEARS!"

"I still remember reading about that for the first time. The article I saw really downplayed it in the headline, it just read something like, "Singer of Lostprophets accused of sexual behaviour with underage victim". I read it assuming it was going to be that he hooked up with a 15 year old groupie or something. Then holy shit, the actual details..."

"alleged she was fired from the show she was on back in 2019 for claiming that she and other women were being sexually harassed by one of the stars of the show, Michael Weatherly. She eventually won a 9.5 million settlement."

"I’m not even a big Colbert guy (loved him on Colbert report tho) but insane what happened to him over the last year is insane."

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