Ruby Rose shed light on a night she claims changed the course of her life.
In a resurfaced 2011 essay written for Australian outlet news.com.au, the actress and model described a drunken night out with Katy Perry, which she now claims was the night of a sexual assault.
“I had been off the grog for 30 days — my first attempt at sobriety — and I was out partying with Katy,” Rose recalled in the piece.
“What I remember thinking was, ‘I’m having a drink tonight, I deserve one. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?'” she wrote.
She admitted she relapsed that night and consumed “not one drink, or 10” before throwing up on Perry’s foot.
Framing the incident as a turning point, Rose said: “The short answer: I threw up on Katy Perry.
And that’s one of the reasons I’ve been off the grog now for almost 90 days.”
She emphasized that “nothing terrible happened” and that she had not been the victim of a DUI.
At the time, she framed the incident as a “fun little drunken story” that inspired her to recommit to sobriety.
But in recent Threads posts, Rose alleged Perry sexually assaulted her at Melbourne’s Spice Market nightclub.
“She didn’t kiss me. She saw me ‘resting’ on my best friend’s lap to avoid her and bent down, pulled her un***** scar to the side and rubbed her disgusting v****ai in my face until my eyes popped open and I threw up on her,” Rose claimed.
She added that she kept the story quiet for years, although Perry later helped her get a visa to the United States.
Perry’s representatives have vehemently denied the allegations, calling them “categorically false” and “dangerous reckless lies.”
They pointed to Rose’s history of making public allegations against various individuals, all of which have been denied.
Australian authorities have since confirmed they are investigating a “historic sexual assault” reported to have taken place in Melbourne in 2010.
Victoria Police Acting Sergeant Paul Hogan said detectives from the sexual abuse and child abuse investigation team were reviewing the allegations.
A former club manager has also spoken out, saying both women had “too much to drink” that night and insisting he did not witness any assault or vomiting.
For Rose, the resurfaced essay and her latest post highlight how long it has taken her to speak out.
“While I’m so grateful to have made it long enough to find my voice, it just goes to show how much of an impact trauma and sexual assault takes,” she wrote.
