Emily Ratajkowski reveals disturbing connection between Diddy and the Menendez brothers

Emily Ratajkowski draws attention to the connections between Sean “Diddy” Combs and the infamous Menendez brothers that she says no one wants to talk about.

“With everything that is coming out about Diddy and the allegations, and also this new Menendez brothers show called Monster “I think we need to talk about sexual assault against men,” the model and actress says in a video posted on TikTok on Sunday.

Ratajkowski points out that Diddy was able to “hide in plain sight” for so long because many of his alleged victims were male and because “our culture views sexual assault by men as extremely emasculating.”

She says she watched a video of one of the Menendez brothers being asked in a decades-old interview if he was gay because of “what his father did to him, because he was a victim of sexual assault,” adding, “That's really, really scary.”

Ratajkowski suspects that there was “homophobia” among the male jurors in the brothers' murder trial in 1996. At the time, it was argued that the siblings murdered their parents because they had been sexually abused by their father.

The idea persisted that someone who was sexually abused “probably wanted it that way,” and so both siblings were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, Ratajkowski adds.

The “Gone Girl” star calls it “a really scary cycle,” pointing to the sexual abuse cases of singer R. Kelly and writer Junot Diaz. “These are victims of childhood sexual assault who later engaged in horrific behavior and became perpetrators because they couldn't talk about their experiences or couldn't process them properly. They end up hurting other people,” she says.

In the TikTok video, Ratajkowski stresses that she is making “no excuses” for the perpetrators. “I'm just saying that there are ways to break this vicious cycle,” she adds.

“I've seen this in my own life, with men I knew who had really unhealthy sexual tendencies and behaviors, and they said, 'Oh, that's just how men are. We just naturally have these weird sexual tendencies that women don't have.' That's an excuse. And then it comes out that they've experienced sexual assault.

“I really hope we start having more conversations about it so that men and boys feel more comfortable talking about it.”