TravellingPants
Chatty Member
I imagine, especially from watching him in the jungle recently, that he’d be incredibly difficult to build a life with just on a basic level of how he operates as a person. He has spoken in interviews recently about the impact of growing up in a household with a parent addicted to heroin and how he struggles with structure or routine. He got incredibly upset and anxious at the thought that he might let down his campmates when being assigned jobs that should be well within an able bodied adult’s capabilities (washing up dishes) and catastrophised the situation massively. Whether or not this is how he was before he got cancelled is difficult to say, because I think he is very afraid of putting a foot wrong again, but it seems like chaos has been a theme.
When you layer onto that a drinking/partying lifestyle, close proximity to someone you’re attracted to, the ‘Strictly curse’ narrative that paints it as inevitable, none of what happened is surprising. I don’t condone what he did, but I think probably a lot of the people who cancelled and condemned him have done or will someday do something comparable or worse. Life is long and humans are fallible.
I don’t think RH’s statement made either party come off well. That she has continues to dwell on it years later when, really, most sensible people would reflect on how they were well shot of someone who didn’t treat them with respect and move on is very telling. These things have so much nuance but we’re pushed a narrative that tries to make them black and white, goodies and baddies. I bet most of the people who vilified him and continue to harp on about it have got #BeKind in their bios.
When you layer onto that a drinking/partying lifestyle, close proximity to someone you’re attracted to, the ‘Strictly curse’ narrative that paints it as inevitable, none of what happened is surprising. I don’t condone what he did, but I think probably a lot of the people who cancelled and condemned him have done or will someday do something comparable or worse. Life is long and humans are fallible.
I don’t think RH’s statement made either party come off well. That she has continues to dwell on it years later when, really, most sensible people would reflect on how they were well shot of someone who didn’t treat them with respect and move on is very telling. These things have so much nuance but we’re pushed a narrative that tries to make them black and white, goodies and baddies. I bet most of the people who vilified him and continue to harp on about it have got #BeKind in their bios.
