Harry Styles is back in the spotlight after dropping his new track, and equally-as-fire video, for ‘Lights Up’ – but he’s also making headlines for this straight-up bonkers tale about being stalked.
Pablo Tarazaga-Orero has been found guilty of stalking Harry Styles after he spent months camping outside the signer’s London home. According the The Guardian, Styles told the Hendon Magistrates’ Court he first encountered Tarazaga-Orero in March and said he was “sad to see someone so young sleeping rough.”
Styles offered the man money for a hotel or food but “he told me that he couldn’t accept the money for religious reasons…he said he was vegan.”
The next morning, Styles reportedly gave the man vegan food. “I passed him the bag of food through the car window at which point he asked me if I wanted to go to a restaurant to eat with him. I told him I was on my way to work. I found it a little odd,” Styles said.
“His facial expression made me feel a little uneasy; it was a kind of smirk,” Styles told the court. “I realised there was something not quite normal.”
Apparently, Tarazaga-Orero began showing up at Harry Styles’ local pub “up to four times a week,” and would turn up “anywhere between a minute and two minutes after I arrived.” This is, obviously, when alarm bells started going off for Styles.
“I saw him incredibly often. Almost every day. I could feel him watching me. It made me feel incredibly uncomfortable,” he said.
After Tarazago-Orero began posting notes in Styles’ letterbox and approaching him in public asking for money, the singer was forced to amp up his security measures.
Things from Tarazaga-Orero’s perspective happened very differently. He told the court that Styles was “trying to buy me with money” and wanted them to be together in Ireland. He also claimed that Styles gave him money for a hotel so they could go there and “have some fun.”
District Judge Nigel Dean said that Harry Styles “felt sorry for a young man he saw to be living without a home in winter,” and added that he was just “trying to help another for whom he felt sorry.”
Sadly, it sounds like Styles’ motto to ‘treat people with kindness’ backfired this time around.