The musician started dating Australian model Helena Vestergaard in 2013, and they split after being together for approximately two years.
Before that, Kiedis, now 63, had a relationship with Heather Christie, who was 22 years his junior. When the pair welcomed their son, Everly Bear, in 2007, Kiedis was 44 and his partner was 21.
In the latest episode of My Therapist Ghosted Me, Williams and her co-host Joanne McNally discussed age-gap relationships, with the former I’m a Celebrity campmate saying: “Do you know who else I find really disappointing, because I really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Anthony Kiedis.”
Seemingly referring to his romance with Vestergaard, Williams continued: “He is like 54 or something, and he is going out with a 19-year-old. And it is like, ‘Dude, what are you talking about?’”
McNally replied: “I’ve seen this. I just accept now that most men, all men, are drawn to – I’m going to be very careful how I say this – significantly younger women. That’s all I’m going to say. It is what it is and I don’t think there’s any getting away from it. We judge it but it’s not going to change.”
“I would have to say that it is not all men,” Williams continued. “Because I do think it is a very specific thing.”
Addressing why younger women might decide to date older men, McNally added: “And of course, people like him [Anthony Kiedis] and rockstars like him can get away with it because no 19-year-old girl wants to be going out with some old lad who is driving a Toyota Corolla around town.
That is your own characterization which you are applying to all situations involving large age-gap relationships, while again conflating “statutory rape” with “rape”. You’re being intentionally disingenuous.
Statutory rape is rape.
Quoted from another user’s comment:
“Statutory rape” is definitely not “rape” because otherwise those quotes could not be made about the same event.
Again, words. It’s important that everyone knows wtf each other is saying.
Children can’t consent. Statutory rape is rape.
Quoting another user’s comment:
They both can’t be true if you’re right, which you aren’t.
It doesn’t matter if the child said she consented, children can’t consent. Sex without consent is rape. I don’t understand what you’re hung up on here.
The definitions of the actual words we’re using. Y’all are intentionally using words with different meanings than the ones you imply.
It does when we’re talking about the concept of rape
Legally, that is true. Not just children. Minors cannot legally consent. Minor does not even mean the same thing across different nations. Thus, words matter. I had no idea about the subject of this post going into it. I read some comments and then quickly became confused. Some users were saying he raped a girl, others were saying he molested a child, then statutory rape came up. For fuck’s sake, just say the actual words so we can understand wtf is being discussed. Why is that so difficult for y’all to understand. I don’t like seeing intentionally confusing shit when I’m just trying to read the comments on a post.
You’re the type of person to think a yes under duress is consent, huh?
Y’all just can’t stop inventing opinions I don’t have and statements I didn’t make.
Okay, I’m not really sure what you’re arguing at this point.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rape
Statutory rape is rape, by definition. I’m done with you now, and I hope you stop promoting pedophilic arguments like “the child wanted sex”. Have a nice day.
That people generally consider the definition of “rape” to be this:
Which is why “statutory rape” is separately defined and depends on the jurisdiction involved. When I read something like “the man raped the girl” or that user who has “Trump Rapes Kids” as their display name, what comes to mind is not at all similar to what was described in another comment of this thread, where the person said “the girl apparently did want to have sex with him”. To me, and a lot of people, those are so very different that there needs to be separate words to describe them so as to make sure it’s obvious what’s being discussed, whether it’s accusations or reporting of events in news articles and stuff. I hate that I read three very different descriptions of the same event and had to figure out what was being said, when there are already words to describe things properly. When people say “rape” without specifying “statutory”, it paints a very different picture of the events and the character of the person involved. It’s intentionally misleading, and there’s no need for it.
I’m surprised to see that, unless it’s sarcastic, and I can’t tell.
Pedophile cope.
I guess that’s the end of you responding with anything other than that. I’ll just respond “weak” from now on, if you’ve nothing else to say beyond that.