Richey & Gaga

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This will probably get deleted & I'll get dragged (and yes, this is a long post), but here it goes...

Y'all need to stop accusing Richy of sexual assault until an actual accusation comes forward or at least something more concrete. What you have is a fan, claiming a DM which sounds like English was not the first language of the person (even though the dancer is American), claiming said dancer-using stan language-confided for the first time in them that they were assaulted in a DM. If you all didn't despise Richey, you would see why that seems suspect as h*ll. And this is coming from someone who dragged Gaga for working with Terry and R Kelly and even stopped being such a big fan for a while due to all of that.

A Rolling Stone journalist investigated this, and while there were reports of verbal/emotional abuse...there were also dancers who defended Richey and said while it was harsh it was pretty much the industry standard. In all, when you add up the people and the amount of dancers she has, it's probably around 1/8. He sounds like a terrible person, but it's nowhere near as d*ming and awful as many are you making it out to be as of now. And yes, journalists could absolutely have someone 'anonymously' talk about sexual assault/misconduct or even mention 'rumors' if they are careful with language...they've done so with Jared Leto and even Drake.

Do you really think Gaga is so powerful, more than Drake, that journalists are scared to write about rumors about not even her but her choreographer..when they've written about rumors directly about celebrities in the past? Do you really think a bunch of stans on twitter know more about the situation than a journalist who investigated and interviewed actual people involved...and you know there were probably a few other journalists who poked around, too, because usually it's not just one investigating.

Frankly, as I saw someone on twitter write, it comes off like fans are trivalizing sexual assault right now to go after someone they don't like instead of looking at the situation rationally. You can dislike the Squirrel, but slinging around that he's a rapist based on...well nearly nothing...is just gross.

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Sorry, but these threads are locked for a reason. One being the conversations spiral into very dark places for no reason other than a bunch of stans who don't know any of these people like to make baseless inferences, get mad at their own assumptions, then take it out on each other, Gaga, and her people. It's a gross and triggering cycle.

My personal take is this...Lady Gaga has always been a champion for victims. The one time she truly slipped up was when she believed she was working with an innocent man that she respected as a musical talent. Once attention was drawn to it, she rectified it.

Her own experiences, Swine, Til it Happens to You, The Hunting Ground, her work with Biden and the violence against women act, and her constant speeches detailing what being a victim is like and how to heal from it...she has earned our trust a hundred times over and then some.

Frankly, anyone who thinks Lady Gaga would knowingly work with a rapist is either an idiot or they know nothing about her and they haven't been paying attention for the last decade and a half.

The only thing we know for an absolute fact is some of her older dancers said Richy is hard to work for. One said he was mentally abusive. Everything else is purely speculation on our part but the SA stuff should be off limits. The person who was named as the supposed victim tried scrubbing it from the internet after a stan posted it. There's no way to verify the validity of that accusation and one of two things happened there. Either someone casually made up an allegation of sexual assault because "hur hur stan culture go brrr", which is disgusting. Or someone was told in confidence that an assault had happened and they hijacked the victim's narrative and surrendered it to the public for speculation. Which is also disgusting.

Just...y'all need to trust Gaga's judgement with this. If Richy is still around and on good terms then it's because he deserves to be.

At any rate, time will tell.