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Post-Jonas Brothers Band, Joe Jonas is opening up to Vulture and he’s more candid and open than ever before. It’s actually hard to imagine that he was ever thought of as being a squeaky-clean, purity-ring wearing Disney star!
Joe admitted to smoking weed with other Disney alums Demi Lovato and the infamous Miley Cyrus when he was in his late teens. Of the experience Joe is quoted as saying:
The first time I smoked weed was with Demi and Miley. I must have been 17 or 18. They kept saying, ‘Try it! Try it!’ so I gave it a shot, and it was all right,” he says. “I don’t even smoke weed that often anymore. I was caught drinking when I was 16 or 17, and I thought the world was going to collapse. But I was in another country, and it was legal there. My 21st birthday, I fell down a flight of stairs. I was unconscious that time, and my whole team was scared to death that somebody was going to get a picture. Now I appreciate wine or a vodka-soda at the end of the day every once in a while.
I can imagine him smoking weed with Miley. Miley’s no stranger to smoking weed as she proved at this year’s European Music Awards (EMA’s). But I must admit I was shocked to hear about Lovato smoking weed with Joe. However, if you recall, Joe dated Lovato for a brief period in their teen years right when she began to struggle with bi-polar disorder, an eating disorder, and substance abuse right before landing a stint in rehab. Joe also opened up about this experience when he stated:
I really got to know her and got to see the ins and outs of what she was struggling with, like drug abuse,” he writes. “I felt like I needed to take care of her, but at the same time I was living a lie, because I wasn’t happy but felt like I had to stay in it for her, because she needed help. I couldn’t express any of that, of course, because I had a brand to protect.
In addition to opening up about his past drug use, Joe also got candid about his sex life, confessing to losing his virginity to Ashley Greene four years ago when he was 20, despite previously wearing a purity ring and promising to save himself until marriage. Joe described the experience by stating to Vulture:
I lost my virginity when I was 20. I did other stuff before then, but I was sexually active at 20,” Jonas explains in his Vulture post. “I’m glad I waited for the right person, because you look back and you go, ‘That girl was batshit crazy. I’m glad I didn’t go there.
Although this confession goes against his previous promise to himself, it sounds as if it was an experience he did not regret. He dated Ashley Green from 2010-2011 before calling it quits due to the difficulties posed by the long distance.
Joe’s candid interview comes just weeks after The Jonas Brothers announced their breakup due to irreconcilable differences and the band’s inability to agree on which musical direction to go in. It sounds like Joe and the rest of the band’s change and break from their “squeaky clean” image was going on for far longer than most suspected. They tried to hide their true identities to protect their young fan and their Disney image, but now after splitting up they are free to be their own selves.
What do you think of Joe Jonas’s candid interview? Are you surprised by his confessions?
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Chris Brown is no stranger to controversy and he’s never been known as being “shy”. By this point it’s hard to be surprised by anything he says. But when he recently revealed the age at which he lost his virginity to UK magazine, The Guardian I couldn’t help but be completely shocked.
The age? 8. Eight years old. Not a teenager,and not even what most would consider to be a pre-teen. And no, it was not rape or molestation. It was Chris Brown apparently being Chris Brown.
Brown stated that the girl he lost his virginity to was between the ages of 14-15. He defended his choice by telling the magazine:
It’s different in the country…by that point, we were already kind of like hot to trot, you know what I’m saying? Like, girls, we weren’t afraid to talk to them; I wasn’t afraid. So, at eight, being able to do it, it kind of preps you for the long run, so you can be a beast at it. You can be the best at it.
Ok, I don’t care how much porn he watched with his friends. He was 8. This is just disturbing. He was still a child. And yet I feel like a part of me shouldn’t be surprised at all. This is Chris Brown we’re talking about. He’s pretty much a professional douchebag, which apparently began at a very early age. I think this helps to explain so much about Brown and the way that he treats women like Rihanna. He doesn’t seem to have had much of a childhood at all. He just wanted to grow up and dominate women through sex. He himself even said in the interview “It preps you for the long run, so you can be a beast at it.” I hate the way he says that. Like it’s a game for him that he always has to win. It’s not about love at all, it’s about dominance.
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Dominance is something that Brown frequently and very negatively attempts to show in his relationships. He has been arrested numerous times for beating women, the most well-known case being his beat-down of Rihanna in 2009.
What are your thoughts on this? Are you surprised? Disgusted? Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.
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