Is there a Rebecca Humphries thread? Her public statement about the end of her relationship is awesome.

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I will try and link. I love that she took the cat!

Totally agree JacquesHammer

How any woman can take Sean's side in this, based on the information we have, I really don't know.

Even if you take the abuse accusation away for a minute, what kind of person leaves their partner home alone on their birthday to go for drinks with another woman? If he didn't want to be in the relationship he should have ended it, and shouldn't have had Rebecca there on Saturday cheering him on, knowing he'd cheated on her with the person he was dancing with. His behaviour was really brazen and uncaring and he deserves to be called out.

Rebecca speaking out may well help other women in the same situation, and that can only be a good thing.

The culture of silence plays so perfectly to misogyny.

A backlash against Rebecca is definitely starting. The majority of the comments in the Mail are nasty about her as are lots of comments on Digital Spy, the Strictly Facebook posts and a couple of other forums.

She is doing herself no favours. No one knows for sure that she is telling the truth. I don't disbelieve her but I don't know whether what she accused Seann of is true or not.

Quite a lot of people are saying they feel sympathy for Seann now as she is starting to look a bit crazy. Also lots of people saying they are going to vote from him on Saturday

“A backlash against Rebecca is definitely starting”

That’s misogyny for you.

Of course a backlash is starting against her. What always happens when a woman won't sit down and shut up?

Quite a lot of people are saying they feel sympathy for Seann now as she is starting to look a bit crazy

By putting out a statement? Seann is totally ok to go on ITT to discuss.

Also lots of people saying they are going to vote from him on Saturday

There’s the patriarchy for you. All hail the “bad boy”.

You’ve only to look on MN to see people saying “oh I find him so attractive now”. Why men keep doing it, because society is set up so they can.

The majority of the comments in the Mail are nasty about her

No! You don't say! Shock, horror and disbelief!

I totally believe RH when she says he emotionally abused her.

It's just that Sean and Katya seem to be lapping up the attention. And the BBC are loving it.

He now seems to be playing the "the relationship was over anyway but I'm sorry it ended like this" card. And people seem to be sympathising with that viewpoint. To me that makes it even worse! A sorry excuse for a man if he couldn't end the relationship before snogging someone else in the street. I really wish he'd bugger off now to be honest and I have very little time for Katya now either. All very well to say her marriage is absolutely fine but you can't go round snogging other people's partners Katya! I have a horrible feeling that the great British public may vote to keep them in from now on though just so they can pour over the routines to spot any signs of ongoing sexual tension! Yuk.

He could play any card he liked, the women will still get the shit and he'll get absolved.

How though can any poster say they absolutely believe the ex? Women do sometimes lie you know. Not saying she is but I don't know as neither does anyone else except Seann and her.

Yes he should have ended the relationship as it obviously was not a good or happy one but Katya is the married one and she is not ending her marriage is she?

I think Rebecca's handled herself with grace and dignity. She would have hounded until she gave a statement so glad it was on her own terms. Sean has let her down massively and I can well imagine there has been an element of gaslighting, if not beforehand then when covering up the emotional affair that seems to have preceded the very public snog.

Hope she has great supportive friends around her. Break ups are always horrid.

Yes he should have ended the relationship as it obviously was not a good or happy one but Katya is the married one and she is not ending her marriage is she?

They’re two different couples though . You can’t use one as the yardstick to judge the other by.

If Sean is using the position that his relationship had all but broken down and that’s why he did it, it’s reasonable to say he should have ended it first. What Katya and Neil decide to do has no bearing on that.

mydog I see you've moved over from the Strictly thread to peddle your ill informed views over here now. From the comments I saw on that thread I'd say the "backlash" against Rebecca started a good few days ago. Anyone with half a brain who watched him on ITT last night can see that he was angry rather than sorry, and didn't show a jot of remorse.

I feel like the #metoo campaign just didn’t happen ...

I agree with MrsReacher, dignified is not airing your dirty washing in public just because they're breathless and desperate to know.

Dignified is walking away and not giving any more headspace to this.

Not so much fun for the rabid 'fans' though, granted.

Dignified can mean different things to different people. She was thrust into the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons because of her abusive twat of a boyfriend. Dignified for her clearly meant taking back control. But of course you're right, women should just shut up, shouldn't they

i thought the metoo thing was to do with sexual abuse.

The dirty washing was well and truly out there already though.

Why should she accept being publically humiliated and cast in the victim role? Why should she just slink away and let the people who caused her pain have the last word? Women should be seen and not heard eh?

The way i see it - She didn't hang the dirty washing out there. She just made sure the dirty washing was labelled as his and then walked away.
Why should she hide and listen to them publically claiming a one off drunken snog when she clearly had suspicions it wasnt!

Love it. Man shits over his relationship, woman responds to huge public discussion, she's the one airing the dirty laundry.

Woman calls out slimy turd of a partner, she's a heroine and glad she's kept the moggie
I certainly will not be voting for the snog in public and faux apology partner

The real problem here is the gaslighting - that's why he is being hauled over the coals. The cheating is really a private matter, but him cslling his gf a psycho when she challenged him, shows him to be nasty.
Of course his gf should say her piece, otherwise he controls the narrative and gets to spin his behavuour into something not so bad. He is saying already that he isn't the person he's been portrayed as. Yet we've all seen the pics - I'm inclined to believe it is an accurate portrayal

My understanding is that the metoo movement is also about believing women and their accounts - not dismissing them because she wasn’t wearing the right clothes/scorned woman/didn’t report it when it happened/weren’t aware that there were accusations against the man ...

The dismissal of her claim that he was a gaslighter has been dismissed as it was only her account/she is just scorned and bitter is just too easy

I thought her statement was pretty insidious and carefully crafted. Superficially it reads as a strong and positive statement but actually it's a thinly veiled character assassination, light on detail but clearly attempting to humiliate and wound. If the aspersions she casts have any truth to them, I'm not sure her behaviour is any better.