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**Right-Wing Influencer Lauren Southern Accuses Andrew Tate of 2018 Assault in New Memoir**
**BUCHAREST, Romania** – Lauren Southern, a Canadian right-wing political commentator, has accused online personality Andrew Tate of assault and strangulation during a 2018 encounter in Bucharest. The allegations, detailed in Southern’s newly self-published memoir, “This Is Not Real Life,” add to the mounting accusations against Tate, who is already facing public scrutiny over allegations of rape and human trafficking.
According to the book excerpts published on Southern’s Substack, the incident occurred in a hotel room while she was intoxicated. Southern, then 22, was visiting Bucharest and met with Tate, who at the time was building his online persona around hyper-masculinity.
Southern provided *The New York Times* with a copy of a 2018 hospital report from a Toronto hospital, dated February 28, 2018, where she sought treatment. The report notes that Southern reported being strangled and assaulted by a 30-year-old man in Romania on February 22, 2018. While the report does not name Tate, Southern told hospital staff the man was someone she had met who she believed was a “potential investor.” The hospital said this week that it was unable to authenticate the report because of patient privacy.
Two individuals who traveled with Southern on the trip have confirmed that she told them the morning after her encounter with Tate that she had been assaulted.
Andrew Tate’s lawyer has denied the allegations, stating, “She is lying through her teeth.” Southern declined to comment further on the allegations.
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