I have no doubt that Millie Bobby Brown doesn’t see anything wrong with her friendship with Drake, and because of that I get why she has come out to defend him. However. We need to remember that as poised and wordly-wise as she may come across, Brown is still a girl of fourteen and likely has not grasped exactly why the world has reacted with raised eyebrows to her revelation that a 31 year old man texts her saying that he misses her.
Her statements do not and should not exonerate Drake. A 31 year old man has no reason to be texting such personal things to a 14 year old girl outside of a familial relationship (and even then…..best not to) and he is the one who needs to come out and make a statement explaining this away. But he won’t. Too busy with his recently turned 18 girlfriend.
Ok real talk: I do not understand why the internet is still convinced Drake is dating this model. As far as I have seen, she went on Instagram to speak up, reiterating again that she is not dating Drake, and was not in the city at the time the photo was taken of him and the woman in that restaurant — she was at work for fashion week in NYC. The picture of them together where she is in the black scoop neck and him in the suit jacket is an old photograph. I don’t know about you all, but when a woman comes forward to correct you about her private life, I think you should believe her. Go ahead and @ me if there’s updated info I’m missing, but as far as I’ve seen, we should leave Bella Harris out of it.
Now, onto MBB and Drake: there is no reason why any adult man needs to be discussing boys with a fourteen year old child except to be telling her in person to ignore them and keep on her grind. Idk about y’all but I wasn’t even allowed to date at 14 and if my mother had found grown ass men on my phone i’m pretty sure she would have crushed it w/ the car tire. Why Drake himself doesn’t feel inappropriate texting her is the real issue here, not necessarily what MBB thinks about it. She’s not qualified to evaluate these situations, hence, why age-of-consent laws exist.
Further note: our society tended to treat this as OK, up until very recently. We have a deep history of sexualizing preteens and teenagers. Thirteen y/o Britney Spears was in bandos; TV shows cast sexually mature, fully grown twenty-somethings to play high school freshmen. When it’s girls in real life, we can somewhat agree that these situations are strange. But for some reason as soon as a girl is a celebrity, if she’s over the age of 13 she’s treated like an adult. Which leads into the larger problem of our social conception of celebrities as these sort of ethereal entities, forgetting, of course, that they are regular people who happen to live in the public eye.
There’s a lot mixed up in this situation. The smallest consolation, of course, is that we’re living in a time where people are willing to talk about it.
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