Ryan was being savaged online by a huge number of fans who had turned against him over the "casting couch" incident with director Cecelia Willow.
For the past two weeks, he had been racking his brain for a way to clear his name and drag Nora Ainsworth down with him.
So, after much thought, he decided to hold a press conference. At the conference, Ryan implicitly suggested that he had been dating Nora Ainsworth at the time, making it impossible for him to have been involved in a "casting couch" incident with the director.
After the press conference.
It was only then that he was shocked to discover a topic sweeping across the internet: "During the filming of *Love when the sun comes out*, Ethan Ellsworth and Nora Ainsworth caught the director and Ryan in the act. To deflect blame, Ryan plans to slander Ethan Ellsworth and Nora Ainsworth." The post was even accompanied by the video Ethan had filmed at the time.
This topic had been trending even before his press conference.
