's The Drama director Kristoffer Borgli admitted to having an age-gap romance with a teen girl in a resurfaced 2012 essay.
The 40-year-old Norwegian filmmaker - who is - penned the printed essay for D2 which has since come to light once again on Reddit this week.
Borgli was age 27 at the time of writing the article and reflected on a recent relationship he had with an individual who was a decade younger than him.
The legal age of consent in Norway is 16 - but the director shared that close pals still felt that the romance 'was not "within bounds."'
Borgli further wrote about May-December romances in the essay, with a translated transcript being shared by The Hollywood Reporter.
He recalled meeting 'a girl ten years younger than me whom I liked very much – a girl who wasn't old enough to vote – and I had to find something that could recalibrate my moral compass.'
Zendaya's The Drama director Kristoffer Borgli, 40, admitted to having an age-gap romance with a teen girl in a resurfaced 2012 essay; seen on Thursday in Rome
Borgli said that his friends voiced that the relationship had not been 'within bounds' which confirmed to him that it was a May-December romance.
The girl had still been in high school when the pair struck up their romance and he remembered waking up next to her in his apartment one day.
'Then why shouldn't my relationship – with a considerably smaller age difference – in 2012 be "within bounds?"' Borgli questioned. 'I chose to listen to Woody over my friends'; Allen and Previn seen in 2025 in NYC
Another also simply added, 'yikes i was not aware of this.'
