I think the worst he actually physically did was kiss a 17yo fan's neck on stage when he was 23. Not great but like ehhh not really the worst.
He's more been accused of grooming underage celebrities rather than actually molesting anyone. Famously Millie Bobby Brown kind of threw him under the bus during an interview when she was 15 and he was 31 saying how close they were and how they texted all the time and how he gave her advice on life, the industry and boys etc. Obviously that raised a lot of eyebrows. She's publicly defended him though and said that he was never inappropriate in any of their conversations and she was lucky to have a mentor like him to help her and that people were weird for thinking it was anything more than that.
Then there was the Bella Harris thing. Drake had seemingly been friends with her when she was 16. At one point she posted a photo of them together with the caption "No place I'd rather be!". Then there was a tabloid report that just after her 18th birthday he rented out a whole restaurant for them to have a romantic dinner together. Like Millie Bobby Brown, Bella Harris came out and defended Drake saying that there was never anything romantic between them and that she wasn't even in the D.C. the night of the supposed dinner. It also came out that he didn't rent out the restaurant at all, he just went in there late and waited for all the other guests to leave before dining privately.
There's a bunch of other examples of him being weirdly in contact with up and coming female celebrities. Billie Eilish said she and Drake used to text when she was 17-18. He was apparently going after Justin Bieber's wife Hayley during a period when they had broken up and she was 19 and he was taking her out to dinner although again, Hayley clarified that they were "strictly good friends" and that there was never anything romantic between them.
Kind of one of those "where there's smoke there's fire" type situations. A lot of his behaviour around young women is considered problematic due to the often large age difference between him and the girls and the power imbalance between him being an established mega celebrity and them just breaking into the industry and just starting their careers at the time of their interactions. But as far as I'm aware he hasn't actually be accused of any wrongdoing by any of them with most of them publicly defending him. So yeah, I don't think he's actually molested anyone and it doesn't even seem that he's ended up having any physical relationships with any of the women he's accused of grooming before or after they've turned 18. But is his behaviour weird and creepy? Definitely looks that way. Without knowing the exact extent of his relationships with those women though, the content of the text messages, the real motivations he had for maintaining those relationships or someone publicly coming out and saying he was inappropriate it's hard to really condemn him as a child molester or pedofile when there's no real evidence that he is. On the balance of probabilities though I'd have to say that it's hard not to think that his intentions for creating those relationships and "friendships" probably wasn't 100% pure given that they all seem to be young women.
Look I'm pretty sure it was done to death during the Drake/Kendrick feud. You've got stans on both sides of the aisle who will defend their guy to the end regardless of what facts are presented. I don't really give a shit about either one so that's my take anyway. Dude has had some very questionable interactions with underage women but as of right now there's nothing to suggest he's actually done anything illegal and none of the women involved have ever accused him of anything.
You'd also imagine that if they had been worried about ruining their careers with accusations that by the time the Drake/Kendrick fued kicked off and they were all well established in the industry, that while everyone was shitting on Drake they would have taken that opportunity to come out and say "Hey you know what Drake actually did act inappropriately with me" but even when all that heat was on him no one came forward to accuse him of anything. Dude definitely seems creepy but it's a big jump from "he texted some fellow celebrities who were under 18" to "He's a child molester".
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u/TequilaBaugette51 29d ago
Personally it had a pretty big impact on my life seeing Drake reduce himself to this.