Rick And Morty star Justin Roiland facing allegations of sexual assault in new report
Justin Roiland’s accusers have made their text messages with the Rick And Morty creator public
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Though domestic violence charges against disgraced Rick And Morty creator Justin Roiland were dismissed earlier this year, he is now facing accusations of using his fame to coerce young women and teens into sex. NBC News’ Kat Tenbarge published text messages and social media DMs between Roiland and his various accusers in a revealing and disturbing report that includes accusations of sexual assault, grooming, and coercion.
Roiland has denied the charges through his lawyer, saying the allegations were “false and defamatory.” After the charges were dismissed, he posted online that he was “determined to move forward and focus both on my creative projects and restoring my good name.”
Between Rick And Morty’s premiere and Roiland’s firing from the show, the once-venerated animator used his fame, influence, and money to fly young women and teenage girls to his Los Angeles home. Three of the 11 participants in NBC’s reporting say Roiland first messaged them when they were 16. Roiland reportedly would often break off communications with the girls upon learning their age, only to reemerge months or years later.
One person, Janna Waters, who is nonbinary, says they were a 16-year-old high school student when Roiland first messaged them. Roiland was 35 at the time. Waters believes Roiland was “grooming” her. When Waters was 17, they told NBC, Roiland offered to fly them to Los Angeles. When Waters again reminded him they were not 18, Roiland responded, “Haha holy shit! I assumed you were.” He dropped the trip until 2019, when he flew a 20-year-old Waters to L.A. Waters said that while they were reluctant to drink alcohol, Roiland encouraged them to drink and kiss a woman at the party. Waters refused.
In another instance, Roiland sent a 19-year-old artist living in Pennsylvania a message after she had tweeted about Rick And Morty. He contacted her about her artwork, saying she was “better than” he was at her age. The two continued communicating until, as before, Roiland offered her a trip to L.A., agreeing to call the young woman’s father and assure him of her safety on the trip. Roiland and his accuser had the following text exchange after Roiland’s phone call with her father:
“Ahhhh I didn’t know your whole family was so concerned about this trip!” Roiland texted her after the call.
“They just didn’t believe me lmao,” she replied.
“But like, are they concerned that it wasn’t actually me or are they concerned no matter what- (by the way, I totally understand it),” Roiland wrote.
“I mean they just love me a lot and don’t want anything bad to happen to me!!” the woman replied.
“I will make absolute 100% sure nothing bad happens to you,” Roiland wrote.
Ahead of the Rick And Morty premiere in 2017, Roiland flew the fan out to Los Angeles for a party celebrating the new season. After the party cleared out, she changed into a bathing suit and joined Roiland and another woman in a hot tub. Roiland encouraged her to have sex with the woman before he had sex with his young fan, who says she was then and still is uncomfortable with group sex. She called a friend crying later that night as Roiland sent numerous text messages apologizing for making her feel uncomfortable. He expressed a desire to sleep with her and sent her a picture of a man with several penises in his mouth, 14 times.
Two years after the trip, she posted: “he’s lucky i’m not the type of person who wants to be famous or well known or anything like that bc he would’ve been ~exposed~ by now probably. idk!!!! it fucks with my head a lot!! like literal trauma!!”
One accuser has text messages between herself and Roiland in which he tells him that she did not consent to sex. In 2019, a 20-year-old who went on a Tinder date with Roiland said he bought her alcohol and brought her back to his hotel. She says Roiland forced her to perform oral sex on her. Months later, she wrote to Roiland:
“The sexual stuff that happened with us was not handled by you in the best way and i just want you to take that into account in future dates. I know it was not black or white but verbal consent is important.”
“Shit yeah, I didn’t??” he responded. “I’m really sorry! Fuck […] That’s not cool at all — jeeeesus That is not me whatsoever… I literally didn’t get consent??”
“I mean you said after that you thought it turned me on to be forced,” the woman replied. “I told you that i wouldve preferred it didnt happen.”
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He expressed a desire to sleep with her and sent her a picture of a man with several penises in his mouth, 14 times.I know this isn’t like the main thing to focus on, but what in the actual fuck?
“Ok, the 13 pictures of a man with several penises in his mouth did not generate the desired response. But what if. . .”
“Did I already send her the multiple-penis swallowing man? Better do it now just to be safe.”
It was clearly just a time saving measure, like he wasnt sure how many it would take so he overshot to be safe
Measure twice, cut once.
The first time I read it, I read it as “picture of a man with 14 penises in his mouth”. And I though huh, that’s actually pretty impressive logistically.
I think a lot of us read it that way. Probably because somehow, that makes more sense than what actually happened.
Perfect.
I don’t know why this made me laugh as hard as I did but thank you.
The “FILE PHOTO” is what makes it. And you’re welcome, mate.
The description says “several penises” and that could be 14 penises.
Sure, and I’ve probably thought about this too much, but it’s not just about having the mouthspace to accommodate more than a baker’s dozen of dicks. The problem is that the dicks are, presumably, attached to bodies, and you would need to configure them in a way to that they did not obstruct each other. And that’s to say nothing of the camera; how would you be able to capture this on film without at least one willy getting in the way?So arranging 14 dongs around a single mouth would be quite the feat, regardless of what hentai has led me to believe.
The problem is that the dicks are, presumably, attached to bodiesIs it weird that I just assumed they weren’t?
My friend did an internship with ILM and was looking through a storage area when he found a duffel full of molded dicks of all shapes and sizes. He never found out why they had them.
Now I’m picturing something along these lines, but you’d need some fairly length dicks to pull it off (no pun intended). The camera issue could be figured out much easier, say an overhead shot or a minicam of some sort.
Heck, you think that’s bad? Try to make an ounce of sense out of this madness;‘Roland was 35 at the time. Waters believes Roiland was “grooming” her. When Waters was 17, they told NBC, Roiland offered to fly them to Los Angeles. When Waters again reminded him they were not 18, Roiland responded, “Haha holy shit! I assumed you were.”’
Really casts a whole new light on the concept of “Pickle Rick.”
There’s a magic number of man-with-penis-in-mouth photos you can send to solve just about any problem, but it’s really hard to get it right. It’s like being an anesthesiologist – a tiny bit too much and you kill em.
You find something that works, you stick with it.
The more I hear about this Justin Roiland, the more I don’t like him.
Norm!
He’s a real jerk
Sex creep keeps on creeping I guess. If we are lucky he will be sharing a cell with Hyde soon
The account that used to invent Parks & Rec-style headlines would’ve had so much fun with this.
So much for this piece of garbage’s weirdo defenders crowing that he was vindicated a few months ago.
Absolutely gross, but I bet we’ll still see his defenders responding against this.
A court of law declined to convict him of a crime once, which means that he’s innocent of all crimes in perpetuity.
We call that “The OJ Method.”
Now, it’s called the Trump method, because he’s hugely bigger than OJ.
So who’s the new voice of Blendin?
Hopefully Gravity Falls never return to air. Let it rest in peace.
That show’s been off the air for a decade
Jeez – sounds like he scared the pronouns out of that one poor girl! Now she has to spend the rest of her life being a plural clown… Justin should get the death penalty on that crime alone!
“In 2019, a 20-year-old who went on a Tinder date with Roiland said he bought her alcohol and brought her back to his hotel. She says Roiland forced her to perform oral sex on her”Possible explanations in descending order of likelihood: 1. This is G/O Media quality proofreading2. There was more than one woman involved 3. She was forced to somehow autofellate herself
You left out this pronoun hash:“One accuser has text messages between herself and Roiland in which he tells him that she did not consent to sex.”
4) Schimkowitz’s native language is Mandarin, so he always gets her pronouns confused.
You know what? That should be upped to #3
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Logged into kinja expressly for this … nm these (new) accusations are extra-watery skim milk, imo; the sloppy editing only supplements rag-tag, insincerity in reporting [nèe: relaying] Roiland’s low morales, frequent unethical behavior.
It’s amazing how fast we go from one to the next.
Solar Opposites is so much better with Dan Stevens. Better actor with a superior, non-grating voice.
I particularly love that Dan Stevens is already British, yet he’s dialled up his natural accent to make his character as British as possible. Also hilarious and perfect they came up with a story excuse and immediately lampshade it Rick and morty will likely just press on with sound alike actors. Which would be the boring safe option.
His Matt Berry-esque pronunciation of some words is welcome and enjoyed.
Honestly the Rick voice would be fairly easy to have a sound alike but for Morty they should just get a deeper voice and say he’s a late bloomer for puberty.
Yeah honestly it would be better if the characters were allowed to age a bit. Rick and Morty wants to be ‘realistic’ in random ways such that the characters not aging feels weirder than the Simpsons (and it still got odd there though after a much longer time). Or at least put in some lampshading about it. The best thing about Adventure Time was that they basically aged Finn up every season so he matured as the show progressed
“Rick and morty will likely just press on with sound alike actors.”
Yeah, but you’re only saying it’s “likely” because they’ve come out and announced that is exactly what they’re doing?
I thought it would have been fun to have a different pair of celebrities voice them every episode. Which would have lead to a huge outcry for one pair:
I snorted when I first heard “BOLLOCKS I just dropped the pupa!”
Too many incels were riding their high horse crying “see, he was innocent, he should get his job back,” To the rest of us, it was pretty clear that there was another shoe about to drop.
Could you go back and proof read this please, it seems really important you get all the “he’s” and “she’s” in the right places in such an article.
…it seems really important…Does it though?Isn’t it easier to accept that this is the level of quality The AV Club operates at now and just shrug?Everything dies.
yes that is CLEARLY the most important thing to focus on in the content of this article.
Yeah it fucking is dipshit, because when you mix “he” and “she” up in an accusation of rape, you accuse the wrong person.
I…correct use of pronouns on a fundamental, grammatical level is kind of vital, tho…?
when writing is your job, yes
Uh… yeah in this context it’s extremely important to understand who is being talked about.
Yeah, clarity is for snowflakes, right, moron?
It is when it relates to the actual allegations of who was made to do what to whom. There are places where it reads like the victim forced Roiland to do things.
As someone who dates someone nonbinary, and they get misgendered all the time, fucking thank you.
Tell them to stop bio signaling so hard. Blur those edges a little. Big sweaters, baggy jeans, unisex hobbies. ASL if they have time to learn it.
Justin Roiland’s finally been accused of sexual assault?
Admirable restraint??
“When Waters was 17, they told NBC, Roiland offered to fly them to Los Angeles. When Waters again reminded him they were not 18, Roiland responded, “Haha holy shit! I assumed you were.” He dropped the trip until 2019, when he flew a 20-year-old Waters to L.A.”
he’s got my vote.
The replacement Lemongrab voice on Fionna and Cake wasn’t too bad.
I guess we can live without Roiland.
All this smoke, I’m sure there’s no actual fire.
/s
Justin Roiland and John K. should team up for a project they have so much in common.
All of this is shitty behavior, but the only one that alleges an assault was the last one.
“All of this is shitty behavior, but […]”
BUT NOTHING
Aw, geez
It’s fine that we’re going to shame him again, but the fact that anyone gave him a pass after the court things fell through the cracks is a joke.
This isn’t like…the first time that he’s been accused of grooming kids. This was already coming out back before the court stuff and we seem to have forgotten about it.
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Nothing wrong with a lil hanky panky
Hardly a smoking gun, rather, wiped clean of prints (still reeking of gunpowder — having recently fired). So there
Please be consistent with their pronouns.