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This was the first thing I came across in a tumblr post a couple of hours ago,  but what actually set me off was this after I saw the title of the article. I didn’t see her snapchat until just a little bit ago, and she has no reason to lie unless they want all of this publicity to go away – which is possible, but Leigh-Anne and her reps have already refused to comment. The police have refused to make a statement as well, as has the restaurant, and while The Met’s report could very well have been about any two random women, I would think that Little Mix reps would want to clear Leigh-Anne’s name out of this asap had it not been her. 

Really, though, going silent is probably best if she was involved because this was claimed to have happened at a restaurant after a night out, so she very well may have been ‘drunk as a skunk’ and she could have fallen at the car and hit her face. So even if they do catch the man and decide to press charges, she can be blamed quite easily on the grounds of her being inebriated and they could even take it so far as to say she ‘provoked him’ since he seemed to have been drunk as well.

Regardless of whether it was Leigh-Anne and her friend or not, this shouldn’t have happened to any two women, whether they were drunk or not, or whether their attacker was drunk or not. 

But this is a trend the media seems to have started a while ago, normalizing celebrity women being attacked – as if this situation can be normalized at all. Somehow though, when dubbed a fan by the media, everyone can just shrug and move on. Even recently when Gigi Hadid was attacked and physically groped they called it a crazed fan incident and even shunned her for defending herself. 

Normani, Dinah, Ally, and Lauren: