YouTuber Chris D\u2019Elia returns to platform amid sexual misconduct claims YouTube: Chris D’EliaStand-up comedian and YouTuber Chris D\u2019Elia has made a return to the platform eight months after news broke of sexual misconduct allegations being made against him by five women. D\u2019Elia, 40, announced his return in a ten-minute video entitled \u201cIt\u2019s been awhile\u201d, wherein he addressed some of the allegations made against him. With two of the alleged victims being 17 and in high school at the time Chris, then 36, was communicating with them, he said in his video: \u201cI know its been a while since you guys have heard from me. I put out a statement when the news broke saying that everything I had done had been legal and consensual and that was true, and I wanted that statement to speak for itself.\u201d He continued: \u201cI wanted to talk immediately afterwards, post online and do my podcast business as usual but I thought that might not be the best thing.I thought the best thing would be to be with my family and take a long hard look at myself.\u201d Admitting that he \u201cknows how it looks\u201d, D\u2019Elia emphasized in the video that he \u201cstand[s] by the fact that all [his] relationships have been consensual and legal.\u201d He also revealed that he has a sex addiction, saying: \u201cDuring this time away, I\u2019ve seeked a lot of medical advice and therapy. I realized that sex controlled my life. It was my focus all the time. I had a problem.\u201d What allegations were made against Chris D\u2019Elia? Five women came forward in June 2020 to accuse D\u2019Elia of sexual impropriety. Two of the alleged victims \u2014 Julia Holtzman and Simone Rossi \u2014 were 17 years old and in high school when D\u2019Elia first begun initiating contact with them. In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, Julia, Simone and three other women all alleged that D\u2019Elia would begin by being initially flirty before conversations and situations quickly escalated. More context on the accusations. 2 of the women were not 18 at the time Chris D\u2019Elia started talking with them. pic.twitter.com\/zNlJiccczT \u2014 Def Noodles (@defnoodles) February 20, 2021 One account described how, upon inviting two fans to his hotel room, he exposed himself to them in a bid to get them to sleep with them. Another 19-year-old fan alleged that Chris said he would only meet her if she performed oral sex on one of his friends. After the allegations came to light, D\u2019Elia issued a statement to TMZ, wherein he said that he had \u201cnever knowingly pursued any underage women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber Chris D\u2019Elia returns to platform amid sexual misconduct claims YouTube: Chris D’EliaStand-up comedian and YouTuber Chris D\u2019Elia has made a return to the platform eight months after news broke of sexual misconduct allegations being made against him by five women. D\u2019Elia, 40, announced his return in a ten-minute video entitled \u201cIt\u2019s been awhile\u201d, wherein […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}