Jared Leto made disturbing comment about ‘high school girls’ before sexual assault allegations

Jared Leto made a creepy comment about “high school girls” 13 years before he was accused of sexual assault by multiple women.

The alleged incident occurred in 2013 when Leto performed with his band, 30 Seconds to Mars, at Ex’Pression College in Emeryville, California, as seen in a video from the new BBC documentary “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret.”

The Oscar winner called a young girl up to the stage and told her, “Give me a hug, first of all,” before he asked her name and where she was from.

After the girl told Leto she was from Los Angeles, he quoted a line by Matthew McConaughey in the 1993 film “Dazed and Confused.”

“That’s what I like about high school girls. I keep getting older, they just stay the same age. Alright, alright, alright,” Leto said.

The video came to light in the explosive documentary where 10 women accuse Leto, 54, of sexual misconduct.

Four of the women — who used the pseudonyms “Clara,” “Alex,” “Isabel” and “Etta” — claimed the alleged incidents occurred between 2002 and 2016, when all of them were teenagers.

“Isabel” alleged that Leto assaulted her in a motel bathroom in 2002 when she was 17.

“Clara,” meanwhile, claimed she had intercourse with Leto when she was 17, and that he “shrugged off” a conversation about California’s age of consent, which is 18.

Another woman, “Taylor,” alleged Leto signed a T-shirt across her breasts and told her, “You have a nice rack,” when they met at a music festival when she was 14 in 2005.

“Taylor” said the alleged encounter, which her mother witnessed, “really altered” her life.

Leto vehemently denied all of the allegations made against him, telling us on Wednesday that the claims are “absolutely and categorically false.”

“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life,” he added.

An insider who once toured with Leto described his “horrible” experience working with the singer to Page Six after the doc came out.

“He’s not a good guy. There’s no soul behind his eyes,” the source said about the singer, who allegedly “made people uncomfortable” and “was really hard to talk to.”

The person also claimed Leto had several extreme requests for his crew members, like asking assistants to “hold open doors and his cape” for him, tasks that one could easily do themselves.

“Everyone in the music industry knows there was going to be a day of reckoning for him,” the insider added.

Leto was previously accused of sexual impropriety by nine women in an Air Mail exposé in June 2025.

He also “expressly denied” those claims at the time.

If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.