We need to stop giving these guys a pass because they’re talented or beloved.

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*Obviously, I'm not talking about a 19-year-old dating a 20-year-old here, people. I'm talking about a 28-year-old dating a 16-year-old. 

Also, the first episode aired when Panettiere was newly 17, so she must've been 16 during filming. Again, this is when they met, not started dating, but still.

Skye says she was 17 in the article linked but recently said she was "16 going on 17" on Tiktok.

US Weekly reported they started dating five months before their July 1990 engagement, which would have made Ryder 18.

He claimed her mother approved of the relationship. 

In case you don't find all this charming enough, Jerry also said, “I don’t want my wife to work," which may have contributed to the breakup between the two.

He'd also allegedly dated Aubrianna Atwell starting when she was 16 — Atwell stated herself at age 28 that the two met at the Hollywood Canteen a dozen years before, meaning she would've been 16, though she did say they were friends before they dated.

“It just really wasn’t a terribly appropriate situation in most people’s eyes, and now, it would be criminal," Massa said in the Behind the Music documentary. The two dated for nine years.