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So...Gracie has asked if I would be comfortable coming forward with my experiences with Kaleb Shaw...I knew Kaleb from the summer of 2017 to about the summer of 2018. The exact day we met was June 13, 2017...at that time I was 18 years old and Gracie was 16...
So...Gracie has asked if I would be comfortable coming forward with my experiences with Kaleb Shaw...I knew Kaleb from the summer of 2017 to about the summer of 2018. The exact day we met was June 13, 2017...at that time I was 18 years old and Gracie was 16...
We met through the band brightside bc he was their merch guy...our first conversation was over his tattoos and talking about random youtubers...over the summer of 2017 we began interacting more on social media and in person bc Gracie and I went to a lot of Brightside’s shows...
As we grew closer to Brightside we obviously grew closer to Kaleb...we had a group chat with all of the boys and would send random texts about shows, memes, and music...as the summer went on Kaleb and I started texting...I had feelings for Kaleb and cared a lot about him...
I believe he used this against me and put in situations that I now know were extremely inappropriate...he texted me on multiple occasions telling me how much he loved me and how much he cared about all while telling very detailed and personal information about his mental health..
When he told me these things I grew very attachted to him and felt almost like I had to protect him...I cared more about his well being than my own...he would text me these things periodically and then go weeks without contacting me...this really scared me...
As this was going on there were multiple occasions where Kaleb would reference wanting to kiss me, touch me, have sex with me, and I didn’t want to seem mean or like a I didn’t like it so I stupidly went along with it and played it off like it was a joke...
Before NYE of 2018 he asked me if I would come and spend new years with him alone and we could split an airBNB...I told him no and said something along the lines of I didn’t have the gas money or I had to work...he begged me bc he didn’t want to be alone on NYE...
I did not go but I was so scared that something would happen and became very anxious about me not going...another time we were snap chatting and he said that one of the boys from Brighside thought we had sex...he never confirmed or denied telling them that we did not have sex...
Another time we were dropping him off at a brightside member’s house and when saying goodbye he picked me up and pinned me to his chest and said that he really wanted to kiss/make out with me...we were in the middle of a street and Gracie was right there...I nervously laughed and
Turned my face so that he would not be able to kiss me and on the car ride back Gracie asked me if I was okay and I remember saying I don’t know...these interactions and many more have affected me to this day...I feel disgusting for ever letting it happen and for allowing him to
have and form of power over me..I did not want to come forward bc I felt like my situation didn’t matter when it fact it does and I am sorry to anyone that has been affected by Kaleb..I have grown up a lot since then and now understand how inappropriate he was and how naive I was
He made multiple references about having threesomes with me and Gracie, he would make sexual references to Gracie when I was there sexual references to me when Gracie was there...I felt so used but the fact that he “loved” me kept me in contact with him
Again I am so sorry for anyone that was affected/hurt/harassed and I am embarrassed by myself for what I allowed to happen to not only me but to my best friend..I am again disgusted and I stand with the other people who had to deal with a similar situation
