I think he got his brain broken as a kid by being a child star and probably weird shit at home which is why he and his brother get strange about their childhood stories- which are often made up. Once he became a TV heart throb though I think he utilized that fame to act essentially as a pimp selling his fans to executives and other hollywood creeps, and in the same way that the perverted socialites who hung out with Epstein said he was a genius mathematician, these insist that Leto is a charming, talented performer