Posted on 08/21/2021 12:57:31 PM PDT by Trillian
Tony Award-winning Broadway actress Alice Ripley has denied grooming young fans with mental health issues - but says she's sorry for befriending the women then ghosting them.
Four women have accused Tony Award-winning Broadway actress Alice Ripley of 'manipulating' them and running a cult-like base of young fans. The women also made accusations of unsolicited advances.
Ripley vehemently denies 'vile' accusations of grooming, saying the term has made her feel like a sex attacker, and that she inflicted no such abuse on her fans.
'It is a misinterpretation of my actions to say I manipulated anyone, and more shockingly, that there was abuse,' she said in a statement to Page Six.
'Yet here we are on this slippery slope, because terms like 'grooming' are being thrown around … To be accused of this most vile thing, of which I am innocent, is crushing,'
Ripley earned a Tony Award for her betrayal of bipolar character Diana Goodman in Next to Normal in 2009.
She explains how that the performances 'were truly safe spaces for people who had been touched by mental illness.'
Teen girls would flock to the show time and again many of whom 'imprinted their own mothers onto my character, [or] saw themselves in the daughter.'
Ripley said that her interactions with fans would consist of 'a quick hello at the stage door' or '[seeing] people in my dressing room for a couple minutes before or after the show.'
She said that 'on rare occasions' she would 'have a quick meal' with one.
'It's now clear that a few of these fans had their feelings badly hurt because they received attention and then they felt 'ghosted,' by her lack of regard for them subsequently, she added, 'and I truly apologize for that.'
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Sick predatory dyke.
I know nothing about this individual, but the possibility of vindictive teenage girls seems plausible.
The Mike Pence dinner rule may have been wise.
Im usually all up on current events whos who and and such Never heard of her. not even trying to sound funny What the F is wrong with these people
These sexual deviants are coming out of the woodwork.
Liberal ideology.
Grooming young carpet.
It’s also true among many Orthodox Jews. It’s common practice for them to avoid being alone with those of the opposite sex other than their spouses or immediate family members, precisely to avoid these problems or any appearances of impropriety
Oh those wacky Democrats!
Perverts on Broadway, say it isn’t so.
When I was about twelve, my father counseled me to avoid being alone with children, especially girls. He told me that when you are alone with someone, that person can later accuse you of misconduct and you have no way to prove your innocence.
Once I was engaged to be married, I extended that rule to include other women.
Yeah, whoulda thunkit?
Pence ever go out with a boy-scout troop, camping?
That sounds super motherly.
Watch Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, Kristin Bell and More Sing at Democratic National Convention
Guess who else was there...
Who is Alice Ripley? Honestly, it’s like anybody can be famous these days.
That might as well say, “democratic national convention for pedophilia”.
Like Biden, she likes underage girls too.
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