“I tripped and fell into grownup leisure,” he says, whereas sharing his “fairly traumatic” story.
Whereas most individuals who grew up within the early 2000s would in all probability acknowledge Dan Lee Benson from his work as Zeke on Disney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place,” his gig on that present inadvertently led to his new profession path: grownup leisure performer.
Benson has been lively on OnlyFans, the place he shares his personal nude pictures and movies, for a few 12 months now — and in a brand new TikTok this previous weekend, defined how this current improvement got here to be.
Benson appeared in 32 episodes of the Disney collection, on which he was a recurring character for all 4 seasons from 2007-2012. He performed the perfect buddy of David Henrie’s character, Justin Russo.
“I believed I might take a minute to clarify how I tripped and fell into doing grownup leisure,” Benson mentioned in his newest TikTok video.
“Mainly, after I was on the present ‘Wizards of Waverly Place,’ I might get messages from individuals on a regular basis, a few of these being ladies that I discovered extremely engaging,” he started. “Seems, messaging these ladies, who turned out to not be who they mentioned they had been, was not the perfect thought, as a result of I might ship nude pictures to them and they’d take these nude pictures after which submit them onto on-line web sites.”
“Rapidly I discovered that my nude pictures and movies had been all around the net,” he continued, calling it a “fairly traumatic expertise” for him. Although he tried to rid the Web of his pictures, “that was a fairly troublesome process” — and the photographs nearly price him his job at one level after he “form of retired from appearing.”
“It had a really massive damaging affect on my life,” mentioned Benson.
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“Finally, I made a decision to cease combating in opposition to it and as a substitute go the opposite route and utterly lean into it and construct out a web page and as a substitute of letting individuals promote my privateness, my — you already know what I imply,” he went on.
“I made a decision to say, ‘Screw you, I am gonna promote it myself,'” defined the actor, now 35. “So I began that journey final 12 months. I have been having an amazing quantity of enjoyable. I’ve met a number of nice individuals within the grownup leisure business.”
Whereas he “by accident grew to become an grownup leisure performer” by simply rolling “with the punches,” Benson concluded that, on the finish of the day, “it is modified my life for the higher.”
Benson typically pokes enjoyable at his Disney previous, physique transformation and profession 180 on TikTok — see a few of his different movies under!