“It’s not an easy thing to talk about, but it is a story that needs to be shared.” “If you’ve had any experience even remotely similar to what I and others have had, I encourage you to find the courage to speak about this,” she concluded. The incidents, which sometimes involved drugs, she said, led to an eating disorder, several suicide attempts, and other mental anguish. “I now realize that I was being manipulated by a man who groomed me during a time when I was an emotionally vulnerable child,” she wrote. Her Twitter account has since been suspended, but the story was screenshot in a Twitter thread before it was taken down. The accuser said she tried to share her story twice previously but was “met with influxes of hatred from the masses” and was “threatened with legal action.” She added that in light of the #MeToo movement, she decided to share it again. She claimed the last occurrence was when she was 21 years old.
In 2016, she alleged one of his bandmates was a witness to her being sexually assaulted by Barakat. She alleged the abuse continued over the course of the band’s 2011 tour and during subsequent tours and events. On Monday, prior to the group’s statement, an anonymous woman accused Barakat of sexual assault while she was a minor, beginning when she was age 15 in 2011.
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