YouTuber Lauren Southern has accused controversial influencer Andrew Tate of sexually assaulting her and choking her unconscious.
Southern, now 30, alleges in an upcoming memoir that Tate — who has been accused of quite a few intercourse crimes — attacked her when she flew to debate a enterprise proposal with him within the Romanian capital Bucharest in 2018, when she was 22.
Tate’s legal professional stated Wednesday that the influencer “unequivocally repudiates the pathetic filth peddled” by his newest accuser.
Southern stated she had a dinner with Tate that was “flirtatious” and “charming” — however then modified and appeared “off,” in excerpts of her memoir, “This Is Not Actual Life,” shared Tuesday on her Substack.
Andrew and his brother, Tristan, later invited the Canadian YouTuber again to their compound, however as an alternative took her to a nightclub — the place she ended up vomiting after only one cocktail and a shot, she wrote.
She alleges that Andrew Tate then picked her up, put her in a automotive, took her again to her lodge room and compelled himself on her.
“He kissed me. I wasn’t anticipating it, and I wasn’t searching for it, however I kissed him again briefly after which instructed him I wished to sleep,” she wrote.
“I used to be terribly drained. He wished to go additional. I stated no, very clearly, a number of occasions, and tried to drag his fingers off me.”
As she tried to struggle again, Tate “put his arm round my neck and commenced strangling me unconscious,” Southern wrote, alleging that he stored strangling her each time she “regained sufficient consciousness” to push him off.
“I’d desire to not share the remainder. It’s fairly apparent,” she wrote.
Southern described how studying information articles about different alleged assaults by Tate that matched her experiences led to her leaving far-right politics.
Her determination to publish the chapters detailing the alleged incident free of charge was as a result of she didn’t need to “revenue off this incident,” she wrote.
Tate’s representatives didn’t reply instantly to requests for remark Wednesday, however his legal professional, Joseph D. McBride, launched a livid denial on X early Wednesday.
“Andrew Tate unequivocally repudiates the pathetic filth peddled by Lauren Southern in her pitiable tome,” he stated, calling it “nothing however an evil advertising ploy.”
Tate will “pursue Southern relentlessly for defamation,” the legal professional stated — suggesting it was a part of a broader assault towards all males.
“They focused Trump, then Tate; mark my phrases, you’re within the crosshairs subsequent,” McBride wrote.
In a separate video Tate shared on X, controversial far-right UK activist Tommy Robinson claimed he was on the lodge the morning after Southern alleges she was attacked.
“I used to be within the lodge room subsequent door, once I walked out of the room the following morning after we had been leaving, Lauren Southern’s on the door kissing [Tate],” he stated — calling it proof Southern’s allegations are “madness” and “bullshit.”
Tate, the infamous “manosphere” influencer, faces many prison prices within the UK and Romania, together with rape and human trafficking.
He’s additionally accused of threatening a girl with a gun and violently sexually assaulting one other ex-girlfriend, prices which he has denied.
Southern introduced her retirement from political activism in 2019, however in 2020 she declared her return in a YouTube video wherein she expressed some regret for her earlier hardline stances.
