Taryn Manning Posts Bizarre Video Defending Danny Masterson
“Yeah, he made a mistake, but everyone just keep going, keep crucifying him, as if he’s not already suffering," Manning told her Instagram followers. Uhh...
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Actress Taryn Manning posted a long, rambling video defending convicted rapist and disgraced actor Danny Masterson. In the video posted to her Instagram grid early Monday (and deleted by the evening), Manning said people ragging on Masterson, a man who was accused of raping three women need to back off. “You humiliated somebody that I actually really loved and cared for,” Manning said to her one million followers. “Everyone’s humiliated me so bad, I’m all the way in with everything that I’ve always stood for that I was hiding secretly.”
“And the fact that people wanna just tear us all down, like even with my friend Danny going to prison for 30 years,” continued the actress, best known for her work on Orange Is The New Black and Sons of Anarchy. “Yeah, he made a mistake, but everyone just keep going, keep crucifying him, as if he’s not already suffering.”
Masterson, who was sentenced to 30 years to life in California state prison last week, was accused of sexual assault by three women between 2001 and 2003, at the height of his That ‘70s Show fame. Prosecutors won convictions on two of three rape counts in May as a part of a second trial, even as Masterson continued to deny the rape accusations, saying they were consensual encounters. Masterson will not be eligible for parole until age 77.