Bijou Phillips’ Sister Speaks Out After Danny Masterson Sentencing

Danny Masterson’s spouse Bijou Phillips‘ sister Chynna Phillips is talking out after the actor was sentenced to jail.

Chynna, 55, took to Instagram on Monday, September 11, with a message about prayers, merely including “#yep” within the caption. “Should you don’t really feel like Praying, drive it. As a result of one thing can also be forcing you to not pray,” the quote learn.

Her add was met with combined reactions within the feedback part. “Sure please drive your self to wish for Danny mastersons victims as an alternative of writing letters on his behalf,” one Instagram consumer wrote, whereas a distinct commenter famous they’d be praying for Masterson, 47, and his family members.

Masterson was discovered responsible on two counts of forcible rape in Might for incidents that occurred within the early 2000s. The actor vehemently denied the allegations in opposition to him forward of his retrial. (In November 2022, a choose declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to achieve a unanimous verdict.)

When her husband was convicted, Bijou, 43, was current within the courtroom. In response to the Los Angeles Instances, she “started sobbing” and let loose a “pained cry” as the decision was learn.

Bijou was additionally in attendance earlier this month when Masterson was formally sentenced to 30 years to life in jail. “Mr. Masterson, you aren’t the sufferer right here. Your actions 20 years in the past took away one other particular person’s alternative and voice,” the choose declared on Thursday, September 7. “Your actions 20 years in the past immediately have been legal, and that’s why you’re right here.”

A number of of Masterson’s shut buddies — together with former That ’70s Present costars Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis — wrote character letters on his behalf forward of the sentencing. Chynna’s husband, Billy Baldwin, was amongst those that confirmed Masterson help.

Baldwin, 60, described “the buddy, colleague, member of the family, husband, and father” he knew Masterson to be outdoors of the accusations introduced ahead in opposition to him. “By no means in my total life have I had extra folks check with somebody as ‘household,’ ‘my brother’ and ‘finest buddy’ than Danny,” he wrote, in response to The Messenger. “Lots of them have informed me that he was there for them of their ‘best hour of want’ and ‘the darkest hour of their life.”

Baldwin praised Masterson for the “monumental function” he performed in his siblings’ lives rising up and for persevering with to look after these he loves as an grownup. “I’ve actually by no means met an individual that was a extra caring, devoted, reliable, and constant member of the family and buddy. I pray to God that you’ll contemplate the whole thing of who Danny is when contemplating his sentence,” he wrote.

Whereas Baldwin has not appeared to handle his help for Masterson, Kutcher, 45, and Kunis, 40, defined why they felt compelled to jot down their character letters after dealing with backlash from followers.

“We help victims,” Kunis asserted in a video shared by way of Instagram on Saturday, September 9. “We’ve got carried out this traditionally via our work and we’ll proceed to take action sooner or later.”

Kutcher, for his half, defined that Masterson’s household approached them in regards to the letters, which he stated “weren’t written to query the legitimacy of the judicial system or the validity of the jury’s ruling.”

He added: “They have been supposed for the choose to learn and to not undermine the testimony of the victims or re-traumatize them in any means. We might by no means wish to try this, and we’re sorry if that has taken place.”

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