Actress, model, and cosplayer Chloe Dykstra is the latest woman in the entertainment industry to add her voice to the #MeToo movement -- via a disturbing and revealing essay in which she details emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of an ex-boyfriend.
Dykstra does not name the alleged culprit, although between a wealth of potential identifying details and her own very public life in recent years, fans and the press sites are speculating that the accusations are being made against Nerdist originator Chris Hardwick.
The Hollywood Reporter, The Mercury News and The Daily Beast, among others, have provided details that seem to support that claim, but Dykstra makes no such assertion in her original piece.
Dykstra dated Hardwick from 2012 until 2014, and her description of the ex in question as someone who "grew from a mildly successful podcaster to a powerhouse CEO of his own company" is pretty on-the-nose, for a speculative starting place. The timing also lines up, since Dykstra (now 29 years old) describes the relationship beginning when she was in her early twenties, and later describes a period after the breakup as being "blacklisted from my industry at age 25."
The piece details a relationship where Dykstra's ex set out detailed "rules," to which she agreed against her better judgment, and then became regularly and easily enraged. She describes regular sexual abuse, as she would be pressured into sex against her will and would eventually accede to his demands out of fear of upsetting him or losing him.
Describing eating and sleeping disorders as well as self-harm during this period, Dykstra wrote, "I ceased to be. I was an ex-person."
15-06-2018 - Vidéo
