The poems, part of her 2023 book titledPretty Boys Are Poisonous, are being analyzed in a new light after the actress separated from rapper Machine Gun Kelly, with whomshe’s expecting a child.
Trigger warning: violence, abusive relationship. –One of them focuses on a “violent boy full of rage and insecurities” who uses his hands to “hurt” the narrator and leaves “delicate bruises” on her.
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“I wonder what you are thinking while I cry and I beg you to stop,” the poem’s final verse reads.
A separate poem mentions “beautiful boys” who turn into “evil things.”
“When beautiful boys turn into evil things/You will find that Bibles and silver bullets will fail you eventually,” it reads
“You will let him feast on your tears and your self-esteem/and when he walks away with your soul in his mouth/you will pray for death/ but instead you will live forever as the monster he turned you into.”
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A third poem reimagines Shakespeare’sRomeo and Julietin modern times, with the male protagonist ignoring Juliet and taking her for granted because he’s “busy.”
In the end, Juliet still takes her own life, but Romeo lives and signs up for the celebrity dating app Raya.
In one poem, the narrator describes covering herself up to hide the bruises her partner left so that they wouldn’t feel guilty.
“Mornings after you would hurt me/I would wake up and make you coffee/put on a sweatshirt so you wouldn’t have to look at the bruises you left.
“I wouldn’t want you feeling guilty because like you say—this isn’t your fault.
“Your parents abandoned you/No one ever taught you not to…/it’s just because you love me so much you don’t know how to control all the passion you feel.”
The narrator describes a relationship with a man who is both emotionally and physically abusive
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In another part of the book, the narrator says she has forgiven her partner for calling her a “stupid c*nt” many times.
Another poem, titledIt’s giving Patrick Bateman, reads, “Your love leaves bloodstains on my bedsheets.”
The narrator also describes a man hitting, suffocating, and throwing her to the ground. She also mentions cutting her friends and family out of her life and wearing “more makeup and less clothes” while dating her partner.
“Maybe if you hadn’t…Maybe if I had…
“Do you think that if she could have she would have left a suicide note?”
InNovember 2023,Meganshared that she’d suffered a “very difficult” miscarriage with her then-fiancé Machine Gun Kelly, whose real name isColson Baker.
“I’ve never been through anything like that in my life. I have three kids, so it was very difficult for both of us and it sent us on a very wild journey together and separately…trying to navigate, ‘What does this mean?’ and ‘Why did this happen?’” she toldGood Morning America.
TheTransformersstar shares three sons with her ex-husband, actor Brian Austin Green: Noah, Bodhi, and Journey.
The woman in the poems cannot escape the man, a “beautiful boy” who becomes “evil”
Regarding the poetry book,she explainedthat it’s neither an exposé nor a memoir. “But throughout my life, I have been in at least one physically abusive relationship and several psychologically very abusive relationships,” she said.
The poems recently went viral on Reddit, with many fans expressing concern aboutMeganand speculating that her work may be based on her last relationship.
“This is so sad and scary and awful. I hate the idea that she’s living through this and I also hate that people are going to rip her apart for it,” one user said.
“I hope she gets help and finds peace, for herself first and her children too,” wrote someone else.
“Sometimes my poetry is based on facts, and sometimes it’s based on feelings. Sometimes it’s The Truth, and sometimes it’s complete fiction. The signs point to based in truth here, but the only person who knows one way or another is the poet,” someone else commented.
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“This is a cry for help disguised as a poetry book,” a fourth said. “Megan telling us about her domestic abuse and miscarriage like this is heartbreaking…..she needs someone in her life to save her from MGK…..”
The 38-year-oldannounced her pregnancyto the rapper in November 2024. Weeks later, they revealed the end of their four-year, on-and-off relationship.
A source toldUs Weeklythat the pair “have broken up several times since the pregnancy was announced. This was just one of the bigger ones that people have heard about.”
Megan said the poetry book wasn’t a “memoir,” though she revealed that she has been in a physically abusive relationship
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According toPage Six, they broke up on Thanksgiving weekend after she went through his phone and “found text messages involving other women.” A source said Megan had “trust issues” with MGK “because of past behavior.”
MGK and Megan met while filmingMidnight in the Switchgrassin March 2020. That May, they went public with their relationship after she appeared in the musician’sBloody Valentinemusic video.
If you or someone you know is struggling with domestic abuse, help is available.TheSafe and Together Instituteprovides international domestic violence resources.
“If these are autobiographical, I hope she’s getting help,” a Reddit user expressed
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