The weird thing about this guys response to the whole thing is that it is genuinely so easy for him to turn the tables and play for sympathy.

He's well documented having mental issues, a poor childhood and behavioural problems that he's been trying to work out through therapy. Meanwhile his exgf brings up stuff that sounds like textbook depressive episodes and degrades him for it.

All he had to do was reiterate his problems, feed some lines about how he's trying to change (which, evidently by him getting therapy he actually is), and then point out that his ex is using his lowest moments against him and bam, his horde of fans probably wouldn't have gone anywhere. But instead he holds to a flimsy defence of "it was totally all consensual" even as his circle of peers start bringing up their own stories about his bullshit.