Comic and YOU actor Chris D’Elia has been accused of sexually harassing a number of girls once they had been underage.
Accusations of grooming and the solicitation of nude pictures and assembly up for intercourse first appeared on Twitter.
A Twitter consumer named Simoné, who makes use of the deal with @girlpowertbh began a thread during which she shared screenshots of DM conversations alleging to be between herself and the YOU actor when she was 16 years previous in 2014.
She wrote: “for the longest time i believed it was embarrassing for ME that i used to be interacting with this older man however he was the one who DM’d me on twitter and was the one who was twice my age and was the one which used the facility imbalance between us to his benefit so f*** chris d’elia.”
“I’m additionally undoubtedly not the one underage lady he did this too. simply an FYI,” the Twitter consumer shared in one other tweet, including:
“for the longest time i believed this was only a comic story to inform at events when i spotted what occurred is not regular and that he was and will nonetheless be doing this to youthful ladies and it is my job to say one thing.”
The thread went viral Tuesday, with a number of different accusations in opposition to the 40-year-old coming to mild.
One other Twitter consumer, who goes by the deal with @livstadler, shared her personal expertise with D’Elia during which he allegedly requested her to “hang around” after she messaged him a couple of present he was performing in Toronto.
“However I used to be younger and dumb and simply actually needed to satisfy a task mannequin of mine so I agreed to satisfy him in public, at a bar. 10 minutes earlier than our assembly time, he switched the situation to his resort bar. I sighed, realizing the place this was going. However went anyway, I needed to satisfy him!” she wrote.
“Once I arrived on the resort bar, I ordered a drink and texted him, telling him I used to be there. Predictably, he instructed me to come back to his resort room. I stated “no thanks, I want to satisfy on the bar”. He stopped responding.”
One other consumer opened up about her expertise of visiting the actor’s house when she was 19.
“His energy that night was very dark and creepy – I keep in mind he even obtained mad at me for “ringing the doorbell unsuitable” so our first face-to-face interplay was him scolding me.”
She continued, “After a couple of minutes of speaking, I instructed him I used to be a virgin. His eyes lit up and he excitedly requested, ‘So if we had intercourse, it might in all probability damage you, proper?’ Then I obtained instantly creeped TF out and scared he was going to harm me,” she wrote.
She defined that she was solely in the home for round 30 minutes earlier than leaving however that, “although I used to be of authorized age and consented to going over there, he was predatory and tbh scary.”
A number of folks within the comedy world have been tweeting about D’Elia for the reason that submit went viral.
Comic Lane Moore tweeted: “Who might’ve recognized Chris D’Elia was a creep aside from anybody who’s ever checked out him or heard him say issues.”
Amy Miller wrote: “In case you cowards had fired Chris D’Elia a very long time in the past for being unhealthy on the job (standup comedy) he would not have had time to creep. However you LIVE to say “good set” to males taller than you.”
Paul Dailly is the Affiliate Editor for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.