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Darby Allin trends on social media after #SpeakingOut accuser name drops him

Aaron Rift

In June of 2020 during the #SpeakingOut movement, Twitter user Hawlee Cromwell (@Hawleeasaur) wrote that she was abused by did not name the person that she was accusing of misconduct. Here was her statement from 2020…

“It’s been really hard to formulate this. I’ve always been afraid because people wouldn’t believe me or say ‘oh that’s not that bad’. Thinking of it makes me relive so many bad things. Between 2016 and 2017 I had an on again off again with another wrestler. He ruined my mental health on a lot of things I’m still struggling with.

He would talk about my family as if they were every problem I have in my life. He would get upset and scream and me and yell and treat me like his person punching bag (he never laid a hand on me. Just mental punching bad). It got to the point we’re I was so disassociated and was walking on eggshells all the time that I didn’t say much and if I didn’t reply how he wanted I would get screamed at. He would tell me if I didn’t do things he wanted me to he was going to leave me. I lived in constant fear (and I still have this fear to this day) that if I so one bad thing, don’t listen to one thing, don’t do every thing that hate someone asks of me, that thing that hate someone asks of me, that anyone I am with will leave me on the spot.

He also would threaten to leave me if I didn’t have sex with him or do sexual things and preform sex acts with him. I took me a long time to realize that threatening someone to have sex with you isn’t consent. It’s rape. I struggle with this to this day and have so many fears around sex and around intimacy.

I will not be naming any names because I don’t feel comfortable doing so. I just want to show that this never broke me. That I am stronger for going through something I shouldn’t have had too.”

On Friday, Cromwell quote retweeted her statement and name dropped Darby Allin. Allin’s name ended up trending on Twitter shortly thereafter Cromwell wrote the following…

“I’m tired I’m so fucking tired and I don’t care anymore. Darby allin abused me. He abused me and I’m tired of being called a liar by “fans” who have no idea the shitty person he really is. Somehow no one remembers, I’ll never forget how you treated me like shit.”

Cromwell also shared a Direct Message from last year that was allegedly from Allin’s ex-wife Priscilla Kelly aka Gigi Dolin. Here was the message…

“You should really delete that tweet. I know you didn’t name names, however it’s not hard to figure out who you are referring to. Let me get personal here, I WAS sexually assaulted when I was younger. I can not stomach the thought of being in the same room as that person let alone attempting to befriend their wife as you did with me. There’s much more context than you are letting on and it’s not right to potentially bury someone with lack of context and information just to gain sympathy for yourself or relevancy. It may have been a bad relationship but there is no room for you to make statements considering it to be ‘rape’. Especially considering you were the one begging him to be with you after breaking up numerous times. Understand what you are doing when you make statements like this and what you are talking about. There are two sides to this, and I know who I am married to. While he may not be perfect, he is not a rapist or sexually abusive.”