Maybe you'd like to share your "alternative view".
Fine. He was still a creep tho: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/eastenders-sick-sex-pic-scandal-1630549
This discredits him from commenting on what is or is not abuse or assault. This is disgusting.
Never dealt with an abuser but I used to be friends with someone that was caught taking upskirt photos on the subway and I cut him out completely. We were really close (our parents were even friends) including going to his destination wedding and being in the wedding party of his brother here in town but when he did what he did I was done. After it happened I stopped speaking to him and even ignored him at his brother's wife's funeral (she died at 33 of cancer). I'm glad the first four articles that pop up when you Google his name are the stories of him being arrested with the first image search result being his mugshot. Let that piece of shit live with this for the rest of his life. I just feel sorry for his kids when they get older and find this stuff.
Is there another source other than a famous British tabloid for this 11 year old alleged story, or are you two done trying to derail this thread with whataboutism? This topic isn't about this guy.
Googling this gives multiple other sources, but I'm not familiar with what is or is not a tabloid in the UK. If it's just tabloid gossip then that's good to know it's not true
With all the respect, and since you're asking, yes there is. From BBC news and all the other media in the U.K. This was well publicised at the time, since he was in East Enders. Nobody is trying to derail the thread, by the way. This guy is Chloe's current partner and he is (understandably) vocal about Hardwick, yet he's nonchalantly brushing aside a sexual harassment scandal that he himself was involved in. Are we not allowed to point out his obvious hypocrisy (especially by him name dropping # metoo)?
We definitely should wait to find out more before passing judgement on either side. And someone being a sex offender does discredit them from commenting on the issue in my opinion.
If it's true, then it's kind of the opposite of how she presented it in the article, where she dumped him and he tried to get back with her because he was afraid of being alone. Not saying this completely invalidates all the other abuse that she faced, but she possibly lied about how the relationship ended.
The truth about abusive relationships is that victims often crave and desire the approval of the abuser. Even if she knew he was bad for her, there were definitely times where she wanted him back. I think that's an embarrassing thing for some people, and hard for them to admit. I believe this is a shitty ploy from Chris, and that he probably did abuse her emotionally, but I also don't think it's hard to believe she may have fibbed a bit with how the relationship ended.
I'd advise to all people to actually read the TMZ article. If anything, Hardwick comes out looking even worse with this leak, not better. Nothing there shows that she "lied" about anything. It's basically Hardwick playing the victim card and an ex-girlfriend wanting to get back to her ex-boyfriend. That doesn't invalidate her abuse claims NEITHER the evidence of blacklisting.
Pretty much. Those texts just kinda prove her point and his dumb ass is too old for this. He should've said sorry, coped to some of it, and moved on.
I would certainly hope most people have not done what her boyfriend did. Sending lude pictures and sexting someone who doesn't want it is pretty terrible. I think most people have done crap things in their life, but hopefully not to that level.
At the very least I think his long ass text ending the relationship once and for all demonstrates him handling that moment in a graceful and mature way. If we are to believe he's this abusive monster who had sex with her while she cried, you'd expect to see some evidence of that callous person in that long message, but we don't.
