Alexa Demie has been in the industry for a while, but it was Euphoria that propelled her to stardom.
The actress Alexa Demie plays Maddy Perez, the industry’s new “IT” girl, who is complicated but confident.
Her electric fashion choices and creative makeup on the hit HBO series are iconic, and each episode never fails to set off a wave of trends.
However, the same show sparked debate about her true age.
The debate began in 2020, after Demie gained more recognition for her role on the show, and it resumed in 2022, when the second season of the hit show premiered.
Demie’s character is a 17-year-old high school student, but her true age is a source of contention.
All of the cast members are adults in their early twenties, and many assumed Demie was as well.
In fact, in interviews, the actress was portrayed as being in her early twenties.
During a 2019 interview with Instyle, the actress did not correct the interviewer when they stated Demie was almost 25 years old.
Kissing a Minor by Alexa Demie
When The New York Times did a feature on her that same year, they also mentioned that she was 24 years old.
Demie gave an interview in 2019 in which she mentioned starting a sunglasses collection called Mainframe in her senior year of high school.
@iamsarinotsari discovered an old interview about her business in which she stated that she was 19 years old in 2010.
The user also discovered information indicating that Demie was 29, not 24, as she claimed.
They distributed screenshots indicating that Demie graduated from John Marshall High School in 2008.
Demie’s fans were upset because the actress lied about her age, but there was another reason they were upset.
She kissed Sunny Sujic, an 11-year-old minor at the time, in a scene from her film Mid90s when she was 28.
Fans were outraged by the inappropriate scene, but when asked about it, the Euphoria star defended it.
“He’s just so cool, and it felt very comfortable and safe, and there’s no way I didn’t want to be a part of it,” the actress explained.
Alexa Demie’s Age Scandal Has Resurfaced
After that, Demie’s age scandal died down, but users have recently taken to Twitter to discuss it again.
Amber Lizette, also known as amber lizette25 on TikTok, posted a video on February 18 claiming to have gone to high school with Demie.
She displayed the actress’s yearbook photo, and users flooded her comments section, asking how old she was.
The user posted another video in which she stated that she was 32 years old and asked netizens to stop calling Demie old.
Her videos have been retweeted, and some users have shared another yearbook photo of the actress.
They also claimed that the Euphoria actress had always lied about her age.
Some chastised her for posing as someone younger, while others defended her, claiming it wasn’t a big deal.
They stated that Demie’s talent and acting abilities were everything, and we couldn’t agree more.
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