Conservative commentator Lauren Southern has accused influencer Andrew Tate of raping and strangling her during a 2018 visit to Romania.
The allegations appear in her newly released memoir, This Is Not Real Life, where Southern recounts what she describes as a traumatic and violent encounter while she was heavily intoxicated.
Southern, 30, was known for her online activism and commentary, especially on issues such as immigration and feminism.
She says the incident took place in February 2018, when she traveled to Romania with British political activist Tommy Robinson and their video production team to meet with cryptocurrency investors.
During the trip, she met Andrew Tate.
Tate, 38, is a former kickboxer who gained widespread online attention as a men’s rights personality.
As of now, he is under house arrest and facing charges of rape and human trafficking in both Romania and the United Kingdom.
Southern writes that after a business meeting at Tate’s Bucharest compound that didn’t go anywhere, she was invited back alone later that evening.
She says Tate took her to a club, bought her drinks, and that she became extremely intoxicated, recalling lying on a couch and vomiting in a bathroom.
She writes that Tate carried her out of the club in a semiconscious state and took her to a hotel.
“He carried me back to the hotel room and asked me to sleep beside him,” she writes.
“I said yes. I was incredibly intoxicated, and some part of me convinced myself that because he was Tommy’s friend he wasn’t particularly dangerous.”
According to Southern, Tate initiated physical contact.
“He kissed me. I wasn’t expecting it, and I wasn’t looking for it, but I kissed him back briefly and then told him I wanted to sleep. I was extraordinarily tired,” she says.
Southern alleges that when she refused to go further, Tate became violent.
“He wanted to go further. I said no, very clearly, multiple times, and tried to pull his hands off me. He put his arm around my neck and began strangling me unconscious,” she penned.
“I tried to fight back. He repeatedly strangled me every time I regained enough consciousness to pull at his arms.”
Southern says she will not share more details, stating, “It’s pretty obvious.”
The next morning, she alleges, Tate warned her not to tell the press.
“The last conversation we had in person consisted of Andrew telling me I’d better not tell the press about what he’d done,” she writes.
Southern admits that her public stance against feminism played a role in her silence at the time.
“I couldn’t be doing that. I’d spent so long fighting the idea of victimhood on ideological grounds that of course I would ignore my own on those same grounds,” she says.
Southern initially blamed herself for going to the club and accepting drinks, per her post.
“It was kind of my fault,” she writes, though she later adds that she tried to say no and fought back, and that there was a “point of no return” where her voice “no longer had any power.”
She describes the experience as psychologically devastating.
“It broke me psychologically,” Southern writes, adding that she went through “different forms of denial” for years.
She says she tried to move on without acknowledging what happened, but the emotional toll remained.
Southern says she reported the incident to UK police the following day but was told the case would need to be pursued in Romania.
She writes that she had been warned about police corruption in Romania and feared her report would go nowhere.
She also attempted to report the matter in Canada but says the outcome was the same.
About a week after the alleged assault, Southern says she visited a women’s hospital and submitted a report describing symptoms of asphyxiation.
She points out that her documentation occurred five years before Vice News would report that Tate used similar strangulation tactics on other women in the United Kingdom in 2015.
Southern also says Tate later offered what she describes as a vague apology, saying he was sorry for “making me think badly of him.”
When she pressed him about his actions, she says he told her to “go to police.”
She responded by referencing his own previous claim that “the police were already paid off.”
Southern says she became frustrated over time as she watched conservative media elevate Tate, despite the allegations and ongoing investigations.
“As I write this, he’s still under house arrest for alleged sex trafficking and exploitation, including ‘repeated sexual relations and acts’ with a fifteen-year-old,” she writes.
Southern largely stepped away from public life in 2019.
In a 2023 YouTube video, she revealed that she had married an Australian man who worked in a government security role and described his lifestyle as similar to “James Bond.”
She says they had a son together, but the relationship ended after his security clearance was downgraded due to his association with her.
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