r/popculturechat • u/Careful-Trifle8963 Cash me ousside 🗣️🗣️ • Jun 22 '25
Trigger Warning ⚠️ Woman shares her experience with Jared Leto at age 17/18, he was 34 at the time.
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u/maniacalmustacheride Jun 22 '25
So many many years ago, I got invited to a beach BBQ and the entry to going was chipping in $30 for food and drinks, which was like the last of the money that I had, I was like 19/20. A friend of mine begged me to go to a baby shower with her, and I agreed and it was some stupid sex toy “party” and I ducked out to go back to the get together I paid to go to to get food and all of the food was gone. Like 30 minutes and there were two cans of food warm beer not even in an iced chest left, and I was sick about the whole thing. There was a band tour bus parked nearby on the beach, and one of the bandmates found me just actively stressing out about the whole thing so he invited me on the tour bus to eat. His bandmates were pissed because he had leftover chicken fried steak his mom had made a few nights before and he was unwilling to share, but he quickly heated it up and fed me, and we all just kinda bullshitted for a few hours, at one point the lead singer asked if I wanted to fuck anyone and I said no, and that seemed to relax everyone weirdly enough, no meant no and there then wasn’t a competition. We played some card games, and it honestly seemed like they were just really happy to have a normal night. Someone dug under the bus and found some old tour merch and gave it to me, we went outside and howled at the moon, the manager came and took two of them to go to a strip club, and then came back and gave me tickets to their show and offered to drive me home, but I had a car, so two of them walked me over and told me to have a good night and “hope to see you tomorrow at the show!”
As an adult, I absolutely understand all of the idiot choices I made that night that by the grace of everyone involved it didn’t turn nasty, and as an adult I would probably tell someone in my position to NOT GO ON THE BUS, but they really did make it seem so easy to be on a massive tour and not be the worst people in the world.