Aphrodisias

-His wife ditched him and asked for 900k a year,

-He was sexually assaulted which he said kicked him into a deep depression

-He stated that the stunts from the 3rd Mummy movie completely destroyed his body and he was in and out of the hospital for 7 years even having to get surgery to repair his vocal cords.

-He apparently blamed himself for all this which only worsened his depression.

Compare with this image from the GQ article last February:

Proper lighting, professional setting, good angles etc.

Plus

2019 Brendan is still slaying, so btfu

I mean, look at this adorable face:

👏🏼👏🏼

Comparing her career (term used loosely) to his is so incredibly insulting. They are in no way, shape, or form anywhere close to equals.  He writes his own music, plays a thousand instruments, composed and scored multiple musicals as a college student, acted, sang, and danced on a major tv show for 5 seasons, headlined 2 Broadway musicals, acted in 2 movies, won 4 major awards and endless accolades for his performance in ACS, headlined a concert tour with LM, acted in and executive produced another show, and would be back on Broadway right now with an Oscar and Tony award winner if not for this pandemic.  She did some bts stuff for Fox like 7 years ago, plays with a shitty cover band that does one show a year and thinks vomiting on stage is the height of cool, and came up with the name for her strip bar.  Wow.  My mistake.  Laying it all out like that, they really do have similar resumes.  How the author wrote any of that with a straight face is beyond me.  I think the only 2 proper reactions are a combination of below:

And please please please oh please for the love of god - STOP WITH THE POWER COUPLE BULLSHIT.

Sometimes I feel like there’s a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean.

As Hunter recalls in Jeffrey Schwarz’s new documentary, “Tab Hunter Confidential” (opening in New York this weekend), he would go out on “dates” with starlets like Debbie Reynolds, arranged by the studio and lapped up by movie magazines; sometimes, he and Perkins would double-date with women and then go home together .

Anon, I am so frustrated, I honestly do not even know what to say.  I cannot even believe what I have watched unfold over the past six months.  

I AM A FAN OF D/ARREN C/RISS. I AM NOT A FAN OF M/IA REGARDLESS OF WHO SHE IS IN HIS LIFE AND I AM TIRED OF THE ATTENTION BEING PLACED ON HER CONSTANTLY. AND I AM NOT ALONE IN THIS AND IT IS NOT JUST THE CC COMMUNITY. BEYOND HER STANS, MOST DO NOT LIKE HER AND DO NOT CARE TO HEAR ABOUT HER.

January came and I was so hopeful this was a year of change.  More, I genuinely believe D felt this was his year, he was about to be seen in a career changing role, he knew awards were a real possibility, and I firmly believe at a minimum, he thought she would be expelled from his life.

And what has happened?  On the day ACS premiered, he was forced to mention her in 3 out of 4 interviews.  2 days later there was an engage announcement and suddenly, M promo and talk of an encage started completely overshadowing his career and ACS.

Add, 90% of the print articles emphasized how he was a cis, white, straight dude.  90% blatantly lied while he promoted a show that has themes of homophobia and closeting.

D started rapidly losing weight, that cannot be dismissed or overlooked.  This is fact and is evident more and more each day.  And he looks exhausted constantly.

There is a screening of the final ACS, and suddenly the author of the book is talking about TSG.

2 days later they announce it will open.  And since then it has been relentless, non-stop promo. To the point that he went on a talk show the day his tour was announcement and the TOUR WAS NOT MENTIONED.

He did an interview with the Hollywood Foreign Press that spent at least 5 minutes talking about the bar.  Yesterday’s interview should have focused on ACS and the tour.  IF, IF the bar had to be mentioned, in passing, 30 seconds, it is all it should warrant.  

Team Shit has managed to pull focus from everything he has accomplished this year and placed it firmly on her and the bar.  Clearly a goal is to take everythng he has earned from him and tarnish it and they are doing a stand up job.  and it appears this includes trying to damage his chances at the emmy.  Luckily, d is wildly popular and i am confident he will be nominated regardless because of the incredibly hard work he put into playing Andrew is such an incredible manner.

Perhaps (eventually) one of the ‘team’ will have a long overdue epiphany and see that the beard is DETRIMENTAL to Darren and will allow him to shine - ON HIS OWN MERITS