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Ashton Kutcher has a message for followers after getting referred to as out for writing a letter in assist of Danny Masterson after his rape conviction.
A number of social media customers took to Twitter on Wednesday, September 13, to share the textual content they obtained from the mailing listing Kutcher, 45, arrange. The cellphone quantity, which seemingly sends messages written by the actor, was shared in 2019 and Kutcher hasn’t used it since June of this 12 months.
“A good friend mentioned one thing me right this moment: We’ve one coronary heart we are able to fill in with hatred or love. I selected love,” learn the message from Kutcher. “I selected love.”
In response to the textual content, one fan shared a screenshot, writing by way of Twitter, “Does anybody bear in mind when Ashton Kutcher ‘leaked’ his cellphone quantity and you may get automated textual content messages from him? Effectively I forgot I did that and right this moment I made a decision to decide on violence.”
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The screenshot confirmed the commentator replying to Kutcher. “Effectively I select to consider victims and never assist rapists,” they wrote. In the meantime, a second consumer shared the exact same message that they received after being added to the mailing listing, noting, “I forgot I used to be on ashton kutcher’s textual content newslettter. It’s so over for him.”
Kutcher and his spouse, Mila Kunis, have come underneath hearth after the letters they penned to Choose Charlaine F. Olmedo forward of Masterson’s sentencing on Thursday, September 7, got here to mild.
The trio shaped a friendship after engaged on That ’70s Present from 1998 to 2006. Nevertheless, Kutcher and Kunis, 40, remained largely tight-lipped after Masterson, 47, was arrested and charged in 2020 with three counts of rape. Following accusations from a number of ladies about alleged conduct in early 2000s, Masterson was convicted in Could and subsequently sentenced on Thursday for 2 counts of rape.
“From day one, I’ve denied the outrageous allegations towards me. Legislation enforcement investigated these claims greater than 15 years in the past and decided them to be with out benefit,” Masterson advised Us Weekly in 2017 concerning the claims. “I’ve by no means been charged with against the law, not to mention convicted of 1. On this nation, you might be presumed harmless till confirmed responsible. Nevertheless, within the present local weather, it appears as if you’re presumed responsible the second you might be accused.”
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After Masterson obtained 30 years in jail, Kutcher and Kunis’ letters of assist began to flow into on-line.
“As a good friend, Danny has been nothing however a optimistic affect on me,” Kutcher wrote whereas requesting for Masterson to obtain a lighter sentence. “I hope that my testomony to his character is considered in sentencing. I don’t consider he’s an ongoing hurt to society and having his daughter raised and not using a current father would [be] a tertiary injustice in and of itself.”
Kunis, in the meantime, praised Masterson’s “distinctive character” in her be aware to the decide. “Danny has confirmed to be an incredible good friend, confidant, and, above all, an impressive older brother determine to me,” she added. “His caring nature and talent to supply steering have been instrumental in my progress each personally and professionally.”
Days later, the couple launched a press release providing context behind their determination.
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“We’re conscious of the ache that has been attributable to the character letters that we wrote on behalf of Danny Masterson,” Kutcher mentioned in a video shared by way of Instagram on Saturday, September 9. “A few months in the past, Danny and his household reached out to us, and so they requested us to jot down character letters to symbolize the person who we knew for 25 years in order that the decide might take that into full consideration, relative to the sentencing.”
Kunis famous that the pair “assist victims” earlier than including, “[Our messages] weren’t written to query the legitimacy of the judicial system or the validity of the jury’s ruling. … Our coronary heart goes out to each single one who’s ever been a sufferer of sexual assault, sexual abuse or rape.”
