Bent - Jaden Hossler

2.

"Okay, when I came to LA, I was still fine, Still not doing too great but I was eating healthy. Even back in Louisiana, I had episodes where I had a hard time eating. Those problems exist because of trauma." 

"Do you want to tell them what trauma?" 

"Yeah, so a few of the families I was in made mean comments, the people in high school weren't mean. That's not really a trauma, just bullying. My ex-Boyfriend is one of the biggest reasons." 

"Yeah, he was an abusive asshole." 

"Thank you, Jaden." 

"I really tried not to say anything, I swear he just irks me so much." 

"I actually respect the fact that you can sit there so calm, like I would lose my shit and I don't even know everything." 

"Alice has never said one bad thing about him. She just describes everything. You can cut this out if you'd like but he gaslight you, he abused you, mentally and physically and her raped you." 

"He didn't rape me. There was consent." 

"Addison said you looked dead in the eyes when she found him fucking you. She said you didn't move and that she thought you were dead!" 

Alice was scrambling for words, trying to redeem herself, she felt a little humiliated. 

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scream, and it was not my place to tell." 

"No, you're fine." 

"Don't say that. I was rude." 

He kissed the crown of her head, to show her physically, that he was sorry as well. 

"So basically I had people in my ear going on about how fat I was or how I didn't deserve to eat, so I didn't. And it started out very okay. I ate healthy meals and worked out like a normal human being, while still working. At some point it just got lost. I ate only dinner if I ate that day, and then it was salad or fish. But while I wasn't eating, I was at the gym longer." 

"Yeah, I know that whenever I called you to do something, you were at the gym, running." 

"Yeah. Running wasn't my forte, but you could say, that I am a professional now. Actually, no. Don't say that." 

"Okay, we want to tell our side." 

"Go ahead, Griffin." 

"We obviously noticed. Alice just didn't have energy and we obviously noticed her eating, well lack of it. And we talked about it, tried to do it very inconspicuous and it went okay. She ate a few things but then it just got worse." 

"That was the day of my song release and I sat down with Alice and spoke to her about it, and then she told me about it. She wanted to recover on her own, and I respect that. I made her promise, that she would tell me if she needed help." 

"And I did." 

"Yeah, we moved on the thirstiest and Alice called me on the night of the twenty-eight. She was crying and stuttering. It was a mess." 

"No, I was a mess. I hadn't eaten in five days and I started dry heaving. My stomach had nothing to give, but it wanted to vomit. I also had started to smoke at some point. The cigarettes were actually Bryce's. Josh, Bryce, Blake, Jaden, and Quinton all gave me their things when I was with them in Texas so that they could be sober. We had an agreement, they get sober, I eat better. That was the first confrontation we had." 

"Back to the night. I was hungry, made bread, Alice ate a little, vomited it straight back out again, I found pretzels. Those were the winners. She packed a bag and we went to our place. The first person we saw was Kio." 

"Yeah, it was a little scary. Seeing Alice, who already was petite, but now looked scarily thin, in Jaden's arms. She was asleep and Jaden was crying. I called Addison, telling her that she had to come over right now. We put Alice on Bryce's bed because he had just made it and Jaden and Joshes room were empty. Addison came over and changed Alice. She was crying so hard when she came back out." 

"Two days later the whole group took me to a doctor to get me checked out, which was very sweet. Thank you, guys. Ther I got diagnosed with anorexia nervosa." 

Anthony and Quinton both ruffled her hair a little, showing that they were there. 

"Addison and Jaden took me to a therapist, somebody who knows what they are doing. I really like this woman, she is very easy to talk to and we are currently working on changing my mindset and today I made a big step for me. I was okay with using the elevator instead of the stairs." 

"Wait really?" 

"Yeah." 

Bryce hugged her out of excitement, being incredibly happy for Alice. 

You could also see it on the faces of the others, they were happy too. 

Griffin pitched in: "You are recovering so fast, Allie! I don't think I know of anyone that got better so quickly." 

"Yeah, I don't know I am just really determined to get better and having all of you helps a lot. It will take a while though." 

"Yeah, anything else?" 

"Something that I want to say is, that Alice will still appear in my videos, Bryce's too. We will not treat her differently, please don't comment anything negative about her." 

"Thank you, Josh. I will also post on Instagram again. I will disable the comments for a while, then I will limit them and then I will eventually give them free again." 

"Anything else?" 

Jaden lifted his hand as if he were in school. 

"I want to stress this: It is okay and good to speak to a mental health specialist or to have a therapist. That was something that was really hard for Alice to understand. That's it." 

"Thank you for watching this video, see you next time." 

"That's it?" 

"Yeah, why?" 

"You are a bad YouTuber." 

Laughing Bryce and Josh looked at the camera and went :"Leave a like and subscribe. All social media are going to be linked below. See ya!"