Halsey opened up about her sexual harassment experiences during a powerful speech at the Women’s March.
The 23-year-old singer – whose real name is Ashley Frangipane – took to the streets of New York city alongside thousands of protestors over the weekend, and gave a moving speech in which she spoke candidly about the multiple occasions in which she claims she has experienced sexual assault.
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During her speech – which was delivered as a spoken word poem – Halsey said: “It’s 2002 and my family just moved and the only people I know are my mom’s friend Sue and her son. He’s got a case of matchbox cars and he says that he’ll teach me to play the guitar if I just keep quiet. And the stairwell beside apartment 1245 will haunt me in my sleep for as long as I am alive, and I’m too young to know why it aches in my thighs but I must lie, I must lie.”
The ‘Now or Never’ hitmaker went on to allege that a decade later, she was sexually harassed for a second time, by a man who was her partner at the time.
Halsey is currently in a relationship with rapper G-Eazy. (C) Instagram
She continued: “He’s taken to forcing me down on my knees and I’m confused because he’s hurting me while he says ‘Please’. He’s only a man, and these things he just needs, he’s my boyfriend so why am I filled with unease?”
After becoming a musician, Halsey believed she had “earned protection”, but claims she was abused for a third time more recently.
She said: “I’ve earned my protection, eternally clean. Until a man that I trust tries to get his hands in my pants, but I don’t want none of that I just wanted to dance. And I wake up the next morning like I’m in a trance and there’s blood. Is that my blood?”
The 23-year old is a strong advocate for women’s rights. (C) Instagram
Thousands came out to protest against sexual harassment.
