Camila Mendes is defending her recently-accused-of-sexual-assault “Riverdale” co-stars.
“Someone saying to me that someone would do these a detail to demonstrate a stage? It seems so trivial,” Mendes mentioned on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” Tuesday.
“You genuinely went to that extent? To harm not only the integrity of the #MeToo motion, but to potentially hurt the careers of these individuals and their life? To do that in order to make a issue about how very easily people today imagine items, it’s so backwards to me.”
Mendes also defended her colleagues Monday by using Instagram.
“It’s incredibly damaging to falsely accuse folks of sexual assault,” Mendes shared. “Whatever position this person was striving to make about how immediately people today feel what they read through, it was not value detrimental the integrity of the me also movement.”
The CW star ongoing, “It’s sickening and does not confirm just about anything apart from that there are twisted individuals in this environment who have no worry for the penalties of their hazardous actions.”
“Riverdale” co-stars Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse and KJ Apa have all faced sexual assault allegations from anonymous persons on social media. Sunday, a woman named Victoria claimed on Twitter that Sprouse “became aggressive” in his space just after a party at his NYU dorm. An additional female arrived ahead Monday to accuse Reinhart of groping her while getting a admirer image jointly.
“It invalidates the males and ladies who are courageous adequate to appear ahead with the reality,” Reinhart, 23, tweeted in reaction to the accusations. “This sort of lie can wreck lives and occupations — and I can connect with it a lie due to the fact the human being who created the allegations by now admitted that the stories ended up fabricated.”
The “Hustlers” actress also retweeted one of Sprouse’s tweets stating the solid and their teams were investigating the supply of the wrong statements, incorporating, “I have generally taken sexual assault allegations severely. But it was demonstrated that this account was established precisely to make bogus stories about me and my solid. I can not imagine of a little something much more twisted than lying about sexual assault.”
