'Age is just a number': Jared Leto allegedly asked a 17-year-old fan to call him 'daddy' when they had sex
Two women who have accused Jared Leto of sexual misconduct have detailed their alleged encounters with the star.
Jared Leto allegedly asked a 17-year-old fan to "call [him] daddy" when they had sex.
The 54-year-old actor is the subject of a new BBC documentary, Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret, and one of the 10 women who shared her story in the film is identified as Clara, who met the Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman in 2006 when he was 34 years old.
Clara had been approached at one of the group's gigs by an associate of the Kings and Queens singer and got her phone number. They subsequently went back to Leto's house in California and allegedly had sex while her friend waited in another room.
She said: "He told me, 'I would like you to call me daddy'. And it was either pretend to be a little girl or 'my little girl'."
The woman noted she was "so naive and vulnerable" and had no sense how "normal" Leto's behaviour was.
She added: "It was only as time went on that I realised more and more how scary that really was."
The incident was the first of Clara's three or four visits to Leto's home, and she recalled discussing the age of consent in California with the Masters of the Universe actor, because she was under age in the state.
She said: "He just kind of shrugged it off, like it wasn't a huge concern for him...
"There is no well-adjusted man in his 30s who's going to look at a teenager and think… she would be a great partner."
Another woman, identified as Alex, was 19 when she met the rocker but "felt the need" to pretend to be younger in order to protect herself - but she alleged Leto was dismissive when she told him she was 17.
She claims he said: "Age is just a number, and anyway, we're in Europe."
