TikTok star Sienna Mae Gomez is denying the allegations made towards her in a brand new video from fellow social media performer Jack Wright.

On Jan. 20, Wright, one of many stars of Netflix’s documentary sequence Hype Home, took to YouTube to Within the video, Wright, who is eighteen, responded to allegations of sexual misconduct beforehand made towards Gomez, additionally 18, by his good friend Mason Rizzo, who claimed in Might 2021 that . Although Gomez denied the declare on the time, days later, a TikTok person posted a video that seemingly confirmed Gomez touching Wright whereas he was incapacitated.

In Wright’s new video, he detailed his friendship with Gomez, which, he stated, had by no means crossed into the romantic or sexual house, regardless of Gomez constantly making an attempt to maneuver the connection ahead. He alleged that Gomez crossed his set boundaries a number of instances, together with one incident wherein she straddled him whereas bare. Wright, who stated he instructed Gomez to get off him and walked out of the room, alleged that Gomez apologized to him the following day, and that they continued their friendship, which included collaborating on movies collectively. Nevertheless, he stated, Gomez continued to make him uncomfortable by pushing boundaries.

“She would consistently come to my home, remembering my door codes. It received to the purpose the place I used to be screaming at her to get out of my home, as a result of she was like, breaking into my home,” he stated. “I’d get up and see her automobile sitting exterior at 2 within the morning. She would break into my home, and, once I was snoozing, she would come to my room, and I’d get up to her hand in my pants. It wasn’t the one time it occurred, too. I used to be simply so used to it.”

Wright known as Gomez’s preliminary denial of all accusations was an instance of “gaslighting.”

“Wanting again now, I don’t know why I continued to remain buddies together with her, to remain round her,” Wright defined within the video. “I really thought she would change, for some cause.”

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In a prolonged assertion to Yahoo, Gomez denied the claims made by Wright. Her reps known as the accusations a “calculated motion to hinder, damage and hurt not solely Sienna’s status and livelihood, however her as a person human being as properly. Sienna unequivocally denies these accusations.”

“Apart from spreading falsehoods about Sienna on-line, Jack has taken no motion,” the assertion continues. “There was no police investigation — not even a police report back to our data — no fees, no non-public lawsuit and no contact between Sienna and Jack or their respective authorized groups in lots of months. It was at all times Sienna’s need and intention to deal with this privately vs within the courtroom of public opinion, as she would by no means need to sensationalize or degrade the seriousness of sexual assault. Sadly, Jack’s blatant disregard for the reality has left us with no selection however to handle these claims publicly.”

Gomez’s reps particularly deny the claims that Gomez sexually assaulted Wright, or broke into his residence.

“Not solely are these assaults baseless and false, the discharge of his most up-to-date video is indicative of the general public narrative that Jack and a few of his buddies hope to make use of as a crutch to additional their lies,” the assertion says. “Jack and his collaborators have tried to make the most of blatant slut shaming tradition to justify their fictitious claims and have successfully victimized a profitable girl of colour in a manner that, regrettably, now we have seen many instances earlier than, all in an effort to make use of her struggling as a catalyst for their very own private acquire. Those that have collaborated, on this act of slander, did so with the motivation to additional affiliate themselves with Sienna after their skilled relationship, and due to this fact their declare to any portion of her substantial success, have been terminated.”

They known as Gomez’s relationship with Wright “consensual and cordial.” 

“Jack’s false claims started after Sienna wished to finish the connection out of emotions of getting used and misled by means of their time collectively. Whereas Sienna understands a number of private causes Jack could also be participating on this habits, she holds true to her character and won’t share particulars of Jack’s private life as she understands the kind of damage and hurt it may trigger him,” the assertion reads. “As soon as once more, Sienna vehemently denies these claims. Furthermore, she desires to publicly apologize to all victims of sexual assault for the style wherein Jack is making an attempt to make use of her for his personal egocentric causes to use sympathy. Sienna has by no means needed to interact on this narrative publicly or disrespect the insurmountable ache and trauma related to credible claims of sexual assault and hopes they are often halted instantly to cut back additional hurt to sexual assault sufferer and survivor communities.”

Wright acquired reward for his YouTube video, with one commenter writing, “So, so extremely happy with you jack. The world deserved to know the reality and also you deserved higher. I can solely think about how painful this may be so that you can speak about. You might be an amazingly type hearted one that solely desires the perfect for others. Your efforts to guard your abuser on this scenario speaks volumes about who you might be. Your selflessness, your type forgiving coronary heart and your values.”

One other added, “As somebody who has been assaulted, listening to ‘I consider you’ from somebody sincerely made me begin crying. Thanks for talking up.”

For those who or somebody has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.