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angrychair

(11,468 posts)
Fri Nov 7, 2025, 08:33 PM Friday

Jeremy Renner is a scumbag

Jeremy Renner has been accused of threatening to “call ICE” on his filmmaking partner Yi Zhou and sharing “unsolicited pornographic images” with her.


This one stings a little because I genuinely thought he was one of the good guys.

Source: https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/jeremy-renner-yi-zhou-misconduct-allegations-21144411.php
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Response to ProfessorGAC (Reply #1)

underpants

(193,868 posts)
2. Not really surprised
Fri Nov 7, 2025, 09:42 PM
Friday

I’ve seen some digs at him being self important over the years. He released a record at one point. He was the 4-6th lead actor in Marvel movies and seemed to act like he’s anywhere on par with Downey Jr.

highplainsdem

(58,976 posts)
10. He's a very talented actor and musician and had lots of critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations
Fri Nov 7, 2025, 11:35 PM
Friday

before any involvement with the Marvel franchise.

And his accuser's story doesn't make sense. See reply 8.

MuseRider

(35,030 posts)
3. I thought so too.
Fri Nov 7, 2025, 09:45 PM
Friday

Yuck and ick. After all he went through you would have thought he would have come out of it all with some gratitude and decency. I am sad to hear this.

angrychair

(11,468 posts)
5. She said she has nude photos
Fri Nov 7, 2025, 10:27 PM
Friday

Of him that he sent her. That is nearly impossible to fact.

Response to angrychair (Reply #5)

highplainsdem

(58,976 posts)
8. She claims the photos were sent in June. She got involved with him and worked with him after
Fri Nov 7, 2025, 11:21 PM
Friday

that, which suggests she didn't mind the photos. A few weeks ago she publicized their relationship - to the extent they had one - talking to a tabloid and telling the tabloid he'd "found new love" with her:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15198403/Jeremy-Renner-girlfriend-filmmaker-Yi-Zhou-Reno.html
https://archive.ph/5xXDe

'We have been in a relationship,' Zhou told the Daily Mail, adding that the actor 'found new love' with her.


She'd already complained publicly on social media before that, demanding he pay more attention to her and complaining about him spending time with another woman.

She told the tabloid she'd been "scared for her life" of Renner getting angry in August, but in October she wanted the world to know he loved her.

None of this makes sense.

It doesn't sound to me as if this was anything other than an affair she'd wanted that didn't turn into the great romance or marriage she'd hoped for, so she's smearing him. She'd already been smearing him to that tabloid last month, apparently thinking she could pressure him into more of a relationship. She seems more than a little irrational.

I particularly don't believe he threatened to call ICE.

highplainsdem

(58,976 posts)
11. There's even more strangeness about her accusations against him in another tabloid story, written by
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 12:56 AM
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a Daily Mail reporter who tweeted about the story and said the threat to call ICE had been made clear back in September.

Yet in mid-October Zhou had been telling the Daily Mail about their love.

In the new story, Zhou claims Renner threatened to call ICE after she complained about the photos he was sending...but since she claims elsewhere that had started in June, it makes no sense she'd wait that long to object.

This was obviously a consensual relationship, and at 37 - she's turning 38 - she isn't a naive child. She wants people to believe that when she's turning on him now, three weeks after telling a tabloid about their affair and claiming he "found new love" with her, she's somehow the victim.

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