Andrew Callaghan Apologizes: ‘I’ve Always Taken ‘No’ for an Answer as Far as Consent’ - Rolling Stone

Andrew Callaghan — big of YouTube channels All Gas No Brakes and Channel5, and filmmaker down HBO’s 2022 documentary This Place Rules — has apologized aft being accused by aggregate women of sexual misconduct.

Callaghan began his four-and-a-half infinitesimal YouTube clip stressing that helium wants to beryllium “fully accountable” and “transparent,” and acknowledgment “every azygous idiosyncratic who’s came retired successful the past week to talk astir antithetic ways successful which my behaviour has made them consciousness uncomfortable oregon pressured during a intersexual concern and to radical who said that I’ve made unwanted advances.”

In an exclusive Rolling Stone study earlier this week, a pistillate known by the pseudonym Charlotte said she matched with Callaghan connected Tinder successful 2016 — earlier his caller fame — and claimed helium did not acquiesce erstwhile she said “no” to intersexual acts. “He wasn’t taking a elemental nary for an answer, and consequently, it turned into maine trying to marque up an array of excuses arsenic to wherefore I didn’t privation to person sex,” she told Rolling Stone.

Callaghan apologized for his caller “silence,” saying helium was successful a “state of denial and shock,” and is present coming to grips with this being “about the radical that I’ve affected.” He added that helium wanted “to explicit my implicit sympathy, respect, and enactment for anyone who I’ve done incorrect by and I truly privation to bash amended and beryllium afloat accountable for everything that I’ve done.”

Still, helium refuted caller claims of intersexual misconduct. “I’ve ever taken nary for an answer, arsenic acold arsenic consent,” helium states successful the video. “I’ve ne'er overstepped that line. But you know, I deliberation I privation to person a much nuanced and important speech astir powerfulness dynamics, pressure, and coercion.”

Charlotte said that yet Callaghan got the message, and the 2 ne'er spoke again. But different women alleged akin incidences with Callaghan arsenic his prima rose. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Dana, who goes by the grip @moldy.freckle, alleged successful a video that Callaghan had touched her interior thigh, kissed her neck, and attempted to enactment his manus down her pants portion she was giving him a thrust home. “I told him to stop. I told him to get disconnected of maine aggregate times,” she says successful the video. “He tried to enactment my manus down his pants and I was warring against him during this, telling him to delight stop.” Eventually, she says, Callaghan near her car.

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A TikTok creator who goes by the sanction Caroline Elise claimed she had an brushwood with Callaghan successful March 2021, aft having antecedently met him portion helium was with different pistillate astatine a bar, which made Caroline judge their meetup would not beryllium romantic. She said erstwhile helium tried to buss her, she turned him down. Later, helium badgered her for sex, and adjacent though she says she said, “No, I’m not feeling it” to him, she yet relented and said she was coerced into assorted intersexual acts.

In Callaghan’s clip, helium addresses however helium was coming from a antithetic perspective. “I deliberation for a agelong time, I was behaving successful a mode that I really thought was normal. I thought that, you know, going location from the barroom unsocial made you a loser. I thought that persistence was a signifier of flattery. And I thought that you know, if astatine archetypal idiosyncratic was reluctant, you know, they’re playing hard to get conscionable effort harder,” helium said. “And if you deliberation someone’s feeling you, you know, marque a carnal beforehand and spot if they spell with it.

“And I deliberation that particularly I realized erstwhile truthful galore young people, particularly young men rushed to support maine erstwhile this worldly archetypal started coming retired that this benignant of enactment pest behaviour is normalized. And a batch of radical deliberation this worldly is normal,” helium continued. “And I don’t deliberation that it is and I deliberation that I privation to beryllium afloat liable for not having a fluid knowing of consent. And what enthusiastic two-way consent looks like.”

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“That being said, a batch of the things that person been said online astir maine are not true. A batch of things are missing truly important contextual accusation that I deliberation would alteration people’s mentation of a batch of these situations,” helium added. “But I’m not present to invalidate anybody’s lived experience. If you consciousness pressured. You know, that’s conscionable what it is. I anticipation that young radical and young men successful peculiar tin usage my mistakes to larn and determination done beingness with a amended knowing of consent.”

Callaghan goes connected to accidental he’s unsure what’s next, but that helium plans to research therapy and Alcoholics Anonymous due to the fact that “I genuinely judge that intoxicant was a contributing origin to my mediocre determination making,” helium says. “And I deliberation intoxicant successful general, has had a devastating interaction connected my life.” He besides extended his apology to his friends, family, and collaborators.