Beginning on July 7, 2023, Sarah Brady took to Instagram Stories to share a series of texts from Jonah Hill. In the conversations she shared, Hill asked Brady to delete Instagram pictures of herself in a bathing suit that he thought were "overly sexual," as reported by Teen Vogue. "This is a warning to all girls. If your partner is talking to you like this, make an exit plan," Brady wrote. In another text conversation she posted, Hill bulleted out behavior that he felt was inappropriate, including "surfing with men" and "boundaryless inappropriate friendships with men."
Brady especially took offense at how Hill used therapy speech to manipulate her. "I too struggle with mental health," she wrote. "It's been a year of healing & growth with the help of loved ones and doctors to get back to living my life without guilt, shame, and self-judgment."
Brady's experience with emotional abuse prompted many others to speak out on social media. For example, TikTok user Tefi Pessoa posted a video in which she said, "The weaponizing of therapy is crazy because you're using terminology you used in therapy to get someone to stop doing what they love" — in this case, surfing. Another user tweeted her take on the situation to X, formerly known as Twitter. "Here's the thing: Emotionally abusive & controlling men don't want 'submissive women,' they want to take strong women down a peg," she explained.
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