Madison Beer Recalls Aftermath of Leaked Videos
Content warning: This communicative discusses suicide.
About a decennary ago, a teenage Madison Beer sent immoderate nude videos of herself to her crush. They ended up being leaked online.
Now, the 24-year-old is speaking retired astir the lasting trauma she endured arsenic a effect of the monolithic privateness violation, which astir derailed her career, and how she astir took her ain beingness successful the aftermath.
"Many girls person committed termination implicit this. I attempted to implicit this," the singer said connected the Call Her Daddy podcast April 19. "I did attempt. Twice. I'm truly grateful that I was evidently unsuccessful. But I deliberation radical request to recognize that it's truly superior and not thing to gag about. My beingness was astir over. I astir died. I astir was dormant due to the fact that of each of this."
On her podcast and successful her upcoming memoir, The Half of It, Madison recalled however the leak came to be. The popular star said connected Call Her Daddy that astatine property 15, she sent a "boy that I liked from backmost home" nude videos of herself, immoderate showing her astatine property 13 and 14, connected Snapchat.
The vocalist ne'er thought helium would stock the footage. "I conscionable didn't deliberation that the idiosyncratic I was sending this worldly to would remotely ever deliberation to bash thing similar that, due to the fact that this was idiosyncratic I'd known my full life." she said. "So I was wrong. Obviously."
Friends began texting her to archer her they were sent videos of her. Despite her champion efforts to hint the root of the leak, the footage soon ended up connected the Internet.
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"I'm conscionable sitting and typing my sanction successful quotation marks connected Twitter to spot everything radical are saying astir maine and conscionable refreshing in real-time. It was conscionable everywhere," Madison recalled. "I felt similar the full satellite had seen this video. This is besides the opening of having, similar existent triggerable PTSD from the situation."
Madison received mixed opinions astir her experience. "I didn't recognize until like, years aboriginal that I was the unfortunate successful the situation," she said. "I've had people, of course, sympathize and beryllium like, 'That's horrible,' But I've besides had radical beryllium like, 'Who cares?'"
Others squarely placed the blasted connected her. As Madison said connected the podcast, "I've seen tweets of radical being like, 'Maybe you shouldn't person been dumb capable to nonstop that to this person,' and 'Why would you bash that?' I'm like, due to the fact that I was a young miss with besides an app called Snapchat that virtually deletes the video aft you nonstop it. What's the harm successful that?"
She added, "I was a young horny kid that liked to send videos to a feline that I liked. I'm not gonna fto anyone shame maine for it due to the fact that it is what it is."
Madison has spoken retired astir her mental wellness struggles before and also previously addressed the nude video leak successful 2020, when she tweeted astir it for International Women's Day, giving her "14-year-old self" immoderate advice. "Own your mistakes arsenic a young [woman] learning astir the world," she wrote. "Don't fto them specify you. Don't fto them support you successful fear. Stay safe."
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