David Henrie
Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for BreitlingDan Benson She's not happy about being blocked on Instagram by her ex Wizards of Waverly Place the costar David Henrie.
Benson, 37, posted a video via Instagram On Tuesday, October 29, which hid Henrie, 35, by blocking him from X. The clip featured Benson-fake-crying over a screenshot of a message from X that read: “@DavidHenrie has blocked you,” warning Benson that he could no longer follow Henrie or view his posts.
“We pretended to be best friends for years. How could you do this to me??” he wrote in the caption.
Benson and Henrie's beef started after Henrie got involved on BuzzFeed's latest game and young actors from the youth Wizards of Waverly Place reboot. They were asked to choose which original cast member should return as a guest star on the show and the list includes Benson, who played the role of Zeke Beakerman opposite Justin Russo of Henrie.
While looking at BuzzFeed's list of potential guest stars, Henrie laughed, “I can't believe you put any of these people here. Millennials understand that. “
Laughter filled the room at the mention of Benson's character's name. Although Henrie's joke was not explained, the Disney star may be referring to the fact that Benson currently works in adult entertainment and is a creator on OnlyFans.
As the moment aired on X, Benson offered a response in the comments section, writing, “David Henrie can suck my stick. I will pay him more than what they paid me Witches I promise you that.”
Henrie apparently decided to block Benson after viewing that post.
Last year, Benson posted a TikTok video explaining his decision rotating from casting to OnlyFans in 2022.
“One of the questions I always ask myself is, 'What? Huh? What do you mean? No. How?'” he said in January 2023. “So, I thought I'd take a minute to explain how I stumbled and fell into adult entertainment.”
He went on to say, “I was getting messages from people all the time, some of them were women that I found incredibly attractive.” It turns out that texting those women, who turned out not to be who they said they were, turned out not to be the best idea.”
By that, he meant that these women shared his nude photos and videos online.
“That was a very painful thing, and for years I tried to get rid of them, get them off the Internet, because obviously I didn't want them,” he said at the time. “But, as you can imagine, that was a very difficult task.”
He said that this experience had a “very, very bad effect on my life,” but, “Finally, I decided to stop fighting it and instead went in the other direction and completely leaned into it and created a page.” And instead of letting these people sell my privacy, my… you know what I mean, I decided, 'Okay, blur it out. I'll sell myself.'”
Meanwhile, the Witches reboot, Witches Beyond Waverly Placepremiered Tuesday, October 29, on the Disney Channel.
