Madison beer leaked videos ? Madison Beer is opening up about a tough experience she went through as a minor: her private videos ending up all over the Internet.
About a decade ago, a teenage Madison Beer sent some nude videos of herself to her crush, thinking they would stay private. Unfortunately, Madison beer leaked online. Now, at 24, she’s speaking out about the lasting trauma she faced from this massive invasion of privacy, which almost derailed her career, and how she nearly took her own life because of it.
“Many girls have committed suicide over this. I attempted to over this,” Madison shared on the Call Her Daddy podcast on April 19. “I did attempt. Twice. I’m really grateful that I was obviously unsuccessful. But I think people need to understand that it’s really serious and not something to joke about. My life was almost over. I almost died. I almost was dead because of all of this.”
On her podcast and in her upcoming memoir, The Half of It, Madison recalled how the leak happened. At age 15, she sent some nude videos to a boy she liked from back home, some showing her at age 13 and 14, on Snapchat. She never thought he would share them. “I just didn’t think that the person I was sending this stuff to would remotely ever think to do something like that because this was someone I’d known my whole life,” she said. “So I was wrong. Obviously.”
Friends began texting her to tell her they’d seen the videos. Despite her efforts to trace the source, the footage soon ended up online. “I’m just sitting and typing my name in quotation marks on Twitter to see everything people are saying about me and just refreshing in real-time. It was just everywhere,” Madison recalled. “I felt like the whole world had seen this video. This is also the beginning of having, like, real triggerable PTSD from the situation.”
Madison received mixed reactions. “I didn’t realize until like, years later that I was the victim in the situation,” she said. “I’ve had people, of course, sympathize and be like, ‘That’s horrible,’ but I’ve also had people be like, ‘Who cares?'”
Some even blamed her. As Madison shared on the podcast, “I’ve seen tweets of people saying, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have been dumb enough to send that to this person,’ and ‘Why would you do that?’ I’m like, because I was a young girl with an app called Snapchat that literally deletes the video after you send it. What’s the harm in that?”
She added, “I was a young, curious kid who liked to send videos to a guy I liked. I’m not going to let anyone shame me for it because it is what it is.”
Madison has spoken out about her mental health struggles before and previously addressed the nude video leak in 2020, when she tweeted about it for International Women’s Day, giving her “14-year-old self” some advice. “Own your mistakes as a young woman learning about the world,” she wrote. “Don’t let them define you. Don’t let them keep you in fear. Stay safe.”
