Sienna Mae says she’s depicted as ‘overly sexualized Latina’ amid Jack Wright sex assault claims

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Influencer Sienna Mae Gomez fired back after her ex, TikTok star Jack Wright, saying his 17-minute video accusing her of sexual assault was painting her into the ‘loud, crazy, and overly sexualized’ stereotype of young Latina women. 

Gomez, 18, released an op-ed Saturday denying the allegations outlined in Wright’s video, alleging he misconstrued several parts of their relationship.

‘As someone I loved and still love, I’m devastated that he made me sound crazy and twisted so many things out of context in his most recent video, to the point of literally painting me into the “loud”, “crazy”, “overly sexualized” stereotype that people try to use on young, especially Latina, women,’ she wrote. 

Wright, also 18, accused Gomez, a former high school friend, of four instances of assault, including one in Hawaii that was caught on video in May 2021 where he claims she was straddling, groping and kissing him while he was incapacitated.

Gomez alleged there is a ‘counterpoint for every point Jack made in his video’ and admitted to doing ‘some things wrong and sloppy as a 16/17 year old girl who felt love for a guy’. However, she asserts the accusations of assault are ‘fictitious’ and an ‘act of slander’.

‘All Jack and I ever did was kiss. I have never seen, felt or touched him naked. We spent several nights at the Hype House together but I never grabbed him asleep or awake. Yet I’m still being called a “rapist” across the internet by those who don’t understand the meaning of the word,’ Gomez penned.

‘I want this madness to end,’ she added. ‘I want people to think before they comment unnecessary, hateful things on my socials, on my friends’ socials and on Jack’s socials. I’m tired of seeing people that I don’t know jump on the hate train and make up lies.’

‘I’m confused that people say “arrest her” when there has been no involvement by police, no investigations, and no legal action other than mine since this all began.’

Gomez said her attorneys have threatened Wright with a defamation lawsuit because that it is ‘the best next step to clear your name’.

Gomez and Wright travelled to Hawaii in May 2021 after filing on their Netflix show Hype House had wrapped. She said the show included a storyline heavily focused on ‘uncovering the “truth” behind our relationship’.

Though they had travelled together before, Gomez alleged ‘something on this trip was different’.

‘Everywhere we went he introduced me as his “girl” but then take pictures and blatantly flirt with other people,’ she said. ‘I was jealous, but more than that I was confused — why was I here? Why was he introducing me as his counterpart, telling me to wait patiently to be together, if he didn’t really want any of it?’

‘And then — without producers and cameras around for the first time in months — it really hit me. He liked me when he needed me for a video or for work, but he didn’t like me otherwise.’

Gomez said she asked Wright to make a video with her clarifying to the internet, which was reportedly invested in their alleged romance, that they were just friends.

‘I told him that if he didn’t have real feelings for me, I wanted to set the record straight publicly about our relationship,’ she said.

‘He told me we had brand partnerships riding on our fake one, and that it wasn’t fair to him. I couldn’t believe that someone who I had created with, laughed with, and cried with could so easily disregard my feelings for the sake of money.’

Gomez claims he apologized to her and they agreed to take some time apart so they could ‘think and heal’. 

She said she spent during their time apart Wright outreached to her several times but she ignored it, prompting his to start posting Instagram stories targeting her.

‘Their friend Mason put up a tweet implying that I physically and mentally abused Jack. A few days after that their friend Lachlan released a video taken from a November 2020 party showing Jack and me kissing. He narrated the whole thing to make it look like it was something it wasn’t,’ she penned. 

‘To be clear, [Wright’s brother] James took the video as a joke on his Snapchat seven months earlier and they decided to resurface it.’

She continued: ‘I would like to think that neither Mason nor James realized the impact that their tweets and the taken-out-of-context-video would have. Though they took it all down, it really didn’t matter. The damage had been done.’

Gomez claims her ‘character’ was a ‘topic of public opinion’ for months and the alleged-out-of-context video caused her to lose brand deals, friends and damaged her reputation.  

However, Wright paints a different narrative surrounding the video. 

‘The Hawaii incident happened where I was passed out, unconscious almost like the whole night. She got on top of me, took advantage of me, groped me,’ Wright claimed, adding he’s ‘so glad’ his friends ‘pulled her off’ of him.  

‘I was at a party, like passed out on the couch,’ Wright recalled. ‘When they told me about what happened they said they pulled her off of me.  

‘Another friend got in an argument with Sienna saying, “you can’t do that. Jack doesn’t like you like that.”‘ 

Wright also outlined several other alleged incidents of sexual assault. He accused Gomez of breaking into his home to fondle him while he slept, wrapping her naked body on him without his consent, picking a lock and entering a bathroom while he showered, and more.

Gomez has denied all the allegations, saying the couple never did anything more than kiss and that there is a counter argument to all of his accusations.

‘I have never seen, felt or touched him naked,’ she said.

‘I never broke into Jack’s house…I never stalked him. I never sat outside his house in the middle of the night.’ 

She claims they both made mistakes, arguing: ‘Teenagers do stupid things.’ 

‘Did I do some things wrong and sloppy as a 16/17 year old girl who felt love for a guy? Yes, for sure. I admit to stepping out of a car, stopped at a stop sign, last New Year’s after we publicly fought. There was alcohol involved and I’m definitely not proud of my behavior. After we kissed at Midnight he went and flirted with other people — at least that’s how I saw it. I got jealous. It was stupid and I’m so ashamed.’

She continued: ‘But that said, he did some stupid stuff too. Like chasing after a car full of guys trying to start a fight with them because they cat-called me on the street. Or locking our mutual friend out of his rental house in Hawaii because he was “flirting” with me.’

‘I don’t know, chalk it up to being young and the fact that our brains aren’t even fully developed yet.’ 

Her agents also issued a statement to Yahoo, denying the allegations.  

‘Not only are these attacks baseless and false, the release of his most recent video is indicative of the public narrative that Jack and some of his friends hope to use as a crutch to further their lies,’ the statement said.

‘Those who have collaborated, in this act of slander, did so with the motivation to further associate themselves with Sienna after their professional relationship, and therefore their claim to any portion of her substantial success, were terminated.’ 

Gomez’s representatives called Wright’s allegation a ‘calculated action to hinder, hurt and harm not only Sienna’s reputation and livelihood, but her as an individual human being as well. Sienna unequivocally denies these accusations.’

They also noted that besides ‘spreading falsehoods about Sienna online, Jack has taken no action.’

‘There has been no police investigation — not even a police report to our knowledge — no charges, no private lawsuit and no contact between Sienna and Jack or their respective legal teams in many months,’ the statement read.

‘It was always Sienna’s desire and intention to handle this privately vs in the court of public opinion, as she would never want to sensationalize or degrade the seriousness of sexual assault. Sadly, Jack’s blatant disregard for the truth has left us with no choice but to address these claims publicly.’ 

‘Jack and his collaborators have attempted to utilize blatant slut shaming culture to justify their fictitious claims and have effectively victimized a successful woman of color in a way that, regrettably, we have seen many times before, all in an effort to use her suffering as a catalyst for their own personal gain.’

Gomez’s representatives also alleged the two had a ‘consensual and cordial’ relationship.  

‘Jack’s false claims began after Sienna wished to end the relationship out of feelings of being used and misled through their time together. While Sienna understands several personal reasons Jack may be engaging in this behavior, she holds true to her character and will not share details of Jack’s personal life as she understands the type of hurt and harm it could cause him,’ the statement reads. 

‘Once again, Sienna vehemently denies these claims. Moreover, she wants to publicly apologize to all victims of sexual assault for the manner in which Jack is attempting to use her for his own selfish reasons to exploit sympathy. Sienna has never wanted to engage in this narrative publicly or disrespect the insurmountable pain and trauma associated with credible claims of sexual assault and hopes they can be halted immediately to reduce further harm to sexual assault victim and survivor communities.’ 

Gomez, who was from the same hometown as Wright, claims she reconnected with the TikTok star when she was 16 after one of her social media videos went viral.

She claims Wright traveled with her to Los Angeles and introduced her to new friends whom she had been watching online for months. Gomez claims the pair ‘instantly connected’ and were ‘thrown into a crazy, exciting relationship because the public demanded it.’

‘He was my person. We got each other safely home after parties. We had each other’s backs,’ she wrote. ‘People noticed a spark between us and our videos together went viral. Suddenly, we were America’s favorite teenage “ship” and it all happened so fast that neither one of us really knew what it meant.’

The pair were reported contacted for brand deals, with Wright allegedly switching his talent agency to ‘make it easier for work opportunities’.

In December 2020, four months after she became TikTok famous, the teen was contacted by the producers of Hype House, Gomez said. Both she and Wright were signed to the show which included a storyline heavily focused on ‘uncovering the “truth” behind our relationship’.

‘Somewhere along the way, and in a very confusing state of not knowing what was fake and what was real, I started to fall in love with him,’ Gomez said.

‘The more they pressed me on camera, the more emotional I got because I wasn’t sure if we were friends or more. I didn’t know what was being set up by producers and if it was real or fake.’

She alleges the pair exchanged the words ‘I love you’ but Wright repeatedly declined to make their relationship official. 

The sexual assault allegations were first made public by Wright’s friend, Mason Rizzon, who issued a series of TikTok and Twitter posts on May 30, 2021 describing the alleged abuse.

Gomez denied the allegations in a YouTube video dated June 1, claiming they were ‘unequivocally false’.

Two days later, TikTok user Lachlan Hannemann posted video of the alleged incident that appeared to show Gomez kissing and touching Wright while he was unconscious.

Gomes again, on June 4, denied the accusations and said the footage was manipulated.  

Until Friday, Wright had never explicitly addressed the accusations, but now says Hannemann’s account of the incident is correct. The teen alleged he was ‘passed out unconscious’ when Gomez ‘got on top of me, took advantage of me, groped me’ before his friends pulled her off him. 

‘Honestly I’m glad that they have evidence,’ he said. ‘After Sienna found out about the video she said sorry. She said if this got out she would be done, that it’s horrible and she’s working on boundaries and she was seeking therapy.’

He then continued to outline at least three others instances where Gomez – whom he first met in high school four year ago but reconnected with after they both gained large followings on TikTok – allegedly assaulted him.  

He claimed Gomez once got ‘completely naked’ and straddle him while he was ‘just chilling on the bed’ despite his repeated request that she top. He said he was forced to physically remove her and leave the room. 

Wright, describing the situation as ‘weird and random,’ said Gomez would apologize for her alleged inappropriate actions but ‘these types of things kept happening.’

‘She would do something and I would forgive her and she said it wouldn’t happen again,’ he said. ‘We would go on making fun videos after all those type of things kept on happening.’

He accused her of angrily confronting him at a party because he was taking photos with other women. 

Wright said Gomez asked him to speak in another room and she ‘pulled me in, and grabbed me and tried to make out with me’ before he told her to leave.

The teen also claimed Gomez would frequently ‘break into his home’ while he was asleep.

‘She would constantly come to my house, remembering my door codes. It got to the point where I was screaming at her to get out of my house, because she was like, breaking into my house,’ he said. 

‘I would wake up and see her car sitting outside at two in the morning. She would break into my house, and, when I was sound asleep, she would come to my room, and I would wake up to her hand in my pants. It wasn’t the only time it happened, too. I was just so used to it.’  

He added: ‘One night she started ripping off my clothes, touching my crotch area, trying to make out with me.’ Wright claimed asked Gomez to stop repeatedly and ended up sleeping on the floor.

Wright, citing another alleged incident at a party, claimed Gomez asked to speak to him in a bathroom, sitting on a counter and wrapping her legs against him.

Later that same evening, she allegedly picked the lock on his door and walked into the restroom while he was in the shower.  

‘Looking back now I don’t know why I stayed friends with her, stayed around her. I truly thought she was going to change,’ he added.