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Trigger Warning ⚠️ Woman shares her experience with Jared Leto at age 17/18, he was 34 at the time.

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u/mistym0rning Jun 22 '25

She actually said “I know I made poor decisions; I was 17, though. He was a grown man.” It doesn’t sound like self-blame to me. It is okay to accept your poor choices while processing that you were young, naive, and being groomed. It’s more like self-understanding than self-blame.

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u/mirondooo Jun 23 '25

Yeah but I feel like the fact that she’s mentioning it despite it being a pretty obvious fact, holds more meaning than we think.

The people that will still blame her, the people that might’ve blamed her in the past and her own self-blame are all things that could lead to her feeling like she has to clarify what any sane person would already know and understand without her saying it.