View gallery
“I felt very susceptible,” Millie Bobby Brown says when discussing her previous involvement with TikTok creator Hunter Ecimovic in Attract’s September 2022 subject. Millie, 18, mentioned she was in an “unhealthy state of affairs” with Hunter, 22, in 2020, which she walked away from in 2021. “Additionally, nobody on the set knew I used to be going by this,” the Stranger Issues star mentioned. “So it was type of good to have the ability to simply cope with that myself, and nobody else knew. Then it was more durable when the entire world knew.”
Hunter went on Instagram Stay in July 2021 to make a collection of crude feedback about alleged sexual encounters with Millie whereas claiming he “groomed her” and lived at her home for eight months. “It was a 12 months of therapeutic,” Millie instructed Attract. “If you get publicly humiliated this manner, I felt so uncontrolled and powerless. Strolling away and understanding that I’m price every little thing and this individual didn’t take something from me, it felt very empowering. It felt like my life had lastly turned a web page and that I truly had ended a chapter that felt so f-cking lengthy.”
“Finally, all I wished to do inside my profession is assist younger ladies and younger folks on the market know that I, too, undergo issues,” she added. “I’m not this excellent individual that’s promoting skin-care merchandise and [who is] in Stranger Issues. I completely have made mistaken selections.” Since then, Millie has discovered new love with Jake Bongiovi, the 20-year-old son of rock legend Jon Bon Jovi.
Throughout Hunter’s preliminary livestream, he mentioned that what he did was “fully authorized” and that he “won’t ever apologize.” In a now-deleted TikTok video posted days after the IG Stay session, Hunter mentioned that the general public outburst “ought to have by no means occurred within the first place,” per Insider. “I used to be most likely livestreaming for about two to 3 hours, and in these two to 3 hours, I used to be getting increasingly drunk. … “I mentioned stuff that ought to have by no means been mentioned. I’m not proud in any respect of how I spoke.”
Hunter additionally walked-backed the “groomer” remark within the video replies. “I by no means groomed her. I by no means put strain on her to love me?” he reportedly mentioned in a remark that was pinned to the now-deleted video.
“Mr. Ecimovic’s remarks on social media will not be solely dishonest, but additionally are irresponsible, offensive and hateful,” Millie Bobby Brown’s rep mentioned in a press release following the preliminary livestream, per The Each day Beast. “As an alternative of partaking in a public discourse with him by the press or on social media, we’re taking motion to make sure that he stops this habits as soon as and for all.”
Attract’s September 2022 subject is obtainable on newsstands nationwide on August sixteenth.
