*“Black Panther” star Tenoch Huerta is accused of being an “abuser and manipulator” by saxophonist and activist María Elena Ríos.
Ríos and Huerta dated for several months and on Sunday she blasted him for being a sexual predator, The Huffington Post reports.
“It is very difficult to talk about the emotional abuse and the abuse of power of a sexual predator who is loved around the world for playing a character in a movie such as @TenochHuerta,” she tweeted in Spanish, per Page Six.
“They say those who live in a macho country, where justice is unattainable where they almost kill you and still they don’t believe you or justice comes,” she wrote. “And no, I don’t want to be famous. And no, I don’t want money because I know how to work.”
“Why am I late in talking about it?” Ríos wrote in a follow-up tweet. “Because I have a process. Why didn’t I report? Because I was afraid that this would happen: people who refuse to believe that a SUPER HERO is an abuser, a manipulator and sexual predator.”
“Yes, you @TenochHuerta abuse because you know you have power,” she concluded.
On Monday, Huerta turned to his Instagram story to slam Ríos for her “false and offensive” remarks.
“A false and completely unsubstantiated accusation about me has spread like wildfire — and I cannot let it go unchallenged any longer,” he wrote.
Huerta claims their relationship was “entirely consensual at all times” and was “loving, warm and mutually supportive.”
He claims Ríos went on to “misrepresent our interactions,” so he “engaged a legal team to commence the appropriate actions to protect my reputation and refute these irresponsible and false accusations.”
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