BOIIII SHUT THEE ENTIRE F*CK UP WITH THIS BS!!! The fact that these people CONTINUOUSLY think they can just lie and gaslight the public their way out of this is mind boggling
As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals.
Creative fields are the only places where people expect elite performers to pretend they don’t know they’re elite. Great athletes can feel like they’re the best and it’s all good. But society wants top of their field creatives to do the whole “idk I’m ok I guess 🤷🏻♂️ , probably just got lucky” brand posturing. It’s fake modesty so that people like you more. Newsflash tho, every creative you’ve studied privately thinks they are great cuz they HAVE to. Conviction is the fuel. The audience’s discomfort says more about their relationship to ambition and confidence than about the claim itself.
Whatever you do, pray for the ability to see your own sins, your own hypocrisy, and your own shortcomings. Never lose sight of that. Never get so carried away, pointing fingers that you forget you, too, have abscesses that need tending.