“I was blacklisted. With the assistance of a woman who'd gained my trust and my heart over the past year, he steamrolled my career.”— Chloe Dykstra, medium.com
“I would try to sleep in as late as possible so my days were shorter. I stopped listening to music entirely. I ceased to be. I was an ex-person.”— Chloe Dykstra, medium.com
“In a gut-wrenching essay on Medium, actor Chloe Dykstra describes a years-long emotionally abusive relationship with a man 20 years her senior, who she supported as he went from 'a mildly successful podcaster to a powerhouse CEO of his own company.' Though she never mentions him by name in her piece…”— Madeleine Davies, jezebel.com
“And when your self-worth reaches such depths after years of being treated like you’re worthless, you might find you think you deserve that sort of treatment, and no one else will love you.”— Chloe Dykstra, medium.com
“This kind of relationship is so common, and so easy to slip into. Normalizing behavior happens incredibly quickly, and one can lose track of what is acceptable treatment.”— Chloe Dykstra, medium.com
“When cameras were on us? He was a prince. Turn them off, he was a nightmare.”— Chloe Dykstra, medium.com
“I believed that, to borrow an analogy from a friend, if I kept digging I would find water.”— Chloe Dykstra, medium.com