James Blake Defends Jameela Jamil Against Munchausen Accusations
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James Blake Defends Jameela Jamil Against Munchausen Accusations

James Blake has issued a public statement defending girlfriend Jameela Jamil against a viral accusation claiming the actress has been fabricating her illnesses.

In a series of Instagram stories from earlier this week, writer Tracie Egan Morrissey alleged that many of Jamil's stories were inconsistent and indicative of Munchausen syndrome — a mental illness characterized by a person faking health issues for attention.

Needless to say, Jamil ended up responding to Morrissey's accusations via her own Instagram post, in which she dubbed her "some weirdo stalker" who "in her rush to bully and drag... forgot to read." And while it should've stopped there, Morrissey further escalated the situation by posting alleged screenshots of her DMs with Jamil via Patreon.

In the wake of all this, Blake has finally decided to speak up against the "disgusting lies" surrounding his long-time girlfriend and hit back at those questioning Jamil's intentions.

"It's pretty disgusting to watch the woman I love just be dog piled on every day for such ridiculous things," he began, contending that Jamil has never brought "deliberate harm" to anyone. "She's just done her best as an ever learning human, as most of us are, to help other people with her privilege. She does this because she had such a difficult life. Because she doesn't want others to feel alone, gaslit, or ashamed the way she has."

Asserting that all of her illnesses were real and that he's witnessed their debilitating effects firsthand, Blake went on to argue that "her being attractive, tall, and successful doesn't mean she hasn't been sick."

"I am there for her swollen joints, her dislocations, her severe allergic reactions, her constant high fevers," he continued in his plea for people to stop judging her. "I was there for her concussions, her three months of seizures when the doctor gave her the cancer diagnosis, and for all her operations and their complications due to EDS. I can feel the lumps in her back from the car accident and see all the scars."

Later in his note, Blake also pointed out that while Jamil may be a well-known public figure, most of us "don't know what her life is, and has been."

"But I do, and I'm not gonna stand by and let some total strangers try to push my girlfriend over the edge to what… stop her from helping kids with eating disorders? Stop removing mainstream shame of talking about mental health?" he said, before concluding, "What are any of you even doing? And why are so many of you enjoying this? It's sick to watch, and I don't ever see men treated like this, the way we tear women limb from limb."

Read Blake's entire statement, below.

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