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Harvey Weinstein. Louis CK. Jeremy Piven. Brett Ratner. Russell Simmons. Steven Seagal. Charlie Rose. Matt Lauer. Kevin Spacey. Ok, my fingers are getting tired. These are some of the Hollywood figures accused of sexual harassment/assualt/misconduct. Women are becoming empowered to expose these scumbags and at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if allegations were made against Pope Francis.
Chris Pratt is well aware of his fellow industry folk being picked off daily, and got ahead of the curve in protecting himself against an alleged impostor using his identity to hit on female fans and “who knows what else.”
The 38-year-old posted a warning to his 14 million Instagram followers that a ‘Pervy dude’ is using a fake account to hit on women and try to obtain their numbers.
The caption reads:
PERVY DUDE ALERT!!! (Not a joke) It’s confirmed: somebody is trying to pretend to be me on Facebook (and maybe other social media platforms) apparently hitting on a lot of different female fans, trying to get their numbers and who knows what else. I’m not joking.
Please know, I find this behavior reprehensible. If I find out who it is I’ll have their account shut down and seriously would like to punch them right in the GD mouth. You hear that imposter!? Stop. My message to any fans who are contacted by someone claiming to be Chris Pratt: Look for the BLUE “VERIFIED” CHECKMARK next to the name. If there is no checkmark by my name that person is an imposter. I’m sorry.Tell your siblings. Educate our young ones. It’s probably mostly kids who would fall for this. Makes me sick.
It terrifies me to think someone could be hurt, their feelings or much worse, by this imposter/potential predator. I’ve had many, many people tell me about this. It’s not an isolated incident. If anyone is in contact with this person block them immediately.
If it’s you doing it, I’m warning you. Stop right now or you will@be very unhappy with the outcome. Go find Jesus. 🙏 praying for you.
I believe Chris Pratt to be the last dude in Hollywood to make lewd unwanted advances on women, but at this point, I don’t know anymore. It’s getting to the point in Hollywood where it’s guilty until proven innocent. They should have an Oscar category nominating dudes who haven’t been accused of sexual misconduct. I choose to believe Pratt’s being scammed in this instance, but if it were actually him–in light of the recent allegations against literally everyone–blaming the misconduct on an ‘imposter’ would be the smart move.
[h/t NY Daily News]