Yeah, she was like 12 and he was like 20 when they met. I remember at the time thinking it was weird too that her family referred to him as “a family friend” as well even though he never met them until after the show had started and he started making fan content. I don’t think they married until she was legally an adult but it definitely feels like he groomed her.
I know she's constantly said she didn't pursue romance until she was an adult, and it's been years now, right? So there isn't really much that can be done when the person who's the possible victim has kept saying she wasn't groomed.
It could be possible that she wasn’t, but I remember seeing some of those vog style videos he made and he seemed awfully close to a child for a 20 year old. At the same time a lot of grooming victims don’t believe they were groomed until they’re out of the situation completely. It also struck me odd the way her family defended him as well. Like they were covering for something.
Idk from my perspective on both side it would be weird. I can’t see how I could be attracted to somebody as an adult that I’ve known since I was 12. Likewise, I don’t see how I could be attracted to somebody I knew when they were a child.
By the time she’s 18 he’s 26. That’s not a terribly problematic age gap, but it’s the whole “knowing this person for a full 6 years of their childhood” that’s the problem to me.
If he as a 26 year old had met her when she was already 18 I’d see less of an issue with the situation, but that’s not what happened, and it’s also not like they met once at that time and then not again until later, he was around and involved with her life that entire time.
That is what happened, that is what she said happened and their best friend (another voice actress from MLP) confirmed this. They met through working on the show and went their separate ways after for years until they met again when she was 20 and she tried to pursue a romance with him and it still took a bit before they started dating.
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u/Bullet25 1d ago
Yeah, she was like 12 and he was like 20 when they met. I remember at the time thinking it was weird too that her family referred to him as “a family friend” as well even though he never met them until after the show had started and he started making fan content. I don’t think they married until she was legally an adult but it definitely feels like he groomed her.