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'Beef' star David Choe under fire after clip resurfaces of him telling a story of sexually assaulting a massage therapist
Eammon JacobsApr 17, 2023, 3:55 PM
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- "Beef" actor David Choe is being criticized after a 2014 podcast video clip resurfaced on Twitter.
- The video from the now-defunct "DVDASA" podcast sees Choe tell a story about assaulting a massage therapist.
- He previously apologized for his comments in 2014 and 2017. He later said the incident was fabricated.
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David Choe, an actor and artist who appears on Netflix's hit show "Beef," is under fire for recently resurfaced comments he made about sexual assault on a 2014 podcast.
Choe refuted the outcry, and he released a statement in 2014 declaring that he was “not a rapist” and that his comments were just “bad storytelling.”
Between 2013 and 2014, Choe hosted the "DVDASA" podcast alongside porn actor and director Asa Akira, in which the pair discussed life, relationships, sex, and work.
Described upon launch as "uncensored" and "uninhibited," Choe has come under heavy criticism over the years for a particular episode from 2014 in which he joked about sexually assaulting a massage therapist
During the 2014 podcast episode, seen by Insider and documented by Gawker, Choe said that he was on an "erection quest" and went to a massage parlor, explaining how he slowly forced himself on a masseuse.
The artist — whose artwork is featured in the title cards in multiple episodes of "Beef" — said that when the massage started, he wanted to ask if he could begin masturbating, before realizing that it sounded "creepy."
Investigative journalist Aura Bogado brought the clip to light again after she shared writer Melissa Stetten’s clip of the now-deleted interview on Thursday. Bogado tweeted the video and said: “According to his own telling, the woman David Choe assaulted is Black. He describes himself as ‘a successful rapist.’”
Choe did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News’ request for comment.
In the conversation between Choe and cohost Asa Akira, he recounted a story about getting a massage from a woman named Rose, masturbating in front of her, and forcing her to perform oral sex on him until he ejaculated.
“You’re basically telling us that you're a rapist right now, and the only way to get your dikk hard is rape,” Akira says in the episode. “Yeah,” Choe responds
Choe explained, according to Gawker: "I'm like, wow, that sounds so creepy. So I go back to the chill method of you never ask first — you just do it, get in trouble, and then pay the price later."
The actor described his actions as "rapey behavior" during the episode, Gawker reported at the time, before saying: "I know, I'm so sorry. It's disgusting."
Choe then said he forced the masseuse to fellate him, noting that "she didn't want to do it."
He continued to discuss the incident, Gawker said, including the moment he tried to convince her to have sex with him, but she declined.
While Choe's cohosts discussed the event as rape, he joked that "the thrill of possibly going to jail is what achieved the erection quest."
The actor apologized in 2014 for the episode in a now-deleted blog post, reported Gawker. In a statement, Choe said the story was "a complete extension of my art." He blamed "bad storytelling in the style of douche" for some of his more explicit comments.
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what? He admits it was coercion. She explicitly said no to him. Who knows maybe she was a afraid he'd kill her or beat her ass or some shyt. That's rape.
