AITA for deleting celebrity nudes from my roommate’s phone because they kept talking about leaking them?

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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/aitacelebnudes on 2023-06-27 15:40:06+00:00.

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My roommate used to hook up with someone a few years ago, and that someone has since gone on to become a celebrity. Roommate still has nude photos of this person saved on their phone from back in those days, and likes to show them to people as proof while bragging about having hooked up with this person.

Last week Roommate had their phone out and was showing the nudes off to somebody, and during the resulting conversation everyone started talking about how this celebrity has never done a nude performance/photoshoot/etc and so basically Roommate has the only known nude photos of this person in existence.

For the next couple of days after that, Roommate kept mentioning off and on that they could probably make a lot of money if they sold their photos to DeuxMoi or whoever. I kept telling Roommate that they definitely shouldn’t do that because it was basically revenge porn, and Roommate kept saying that they wouldn’t actually do it but then bringing it up again later. I didn’t like how much Roommate was talking about this and was concerned that they were actually going to leak this person’s nudes.

Finally the day before yesterday after Roommate mentioned it again, I asked if I could see their phone to do something and when they gave it to me I deleted the photos. Roommate later noticed that the nudes were gone from the album and flipped shit on me for deleting them, saying it was none of my business because it’s not like the situation would affect my life at all. It also turned out not to matter because apparently Roommate also has the nudes backed up someplace else, so all I really did was cause a fight.

Roommate has not spoken to me all day yesterday or this morning and is still mad at me for getting into their phone. I still completely thought I was in the right, but when I complained to my friends a couple of them said that I really should’ve just stayed out of it and that I can’t really blame Roommate for being mad that I went through their phone because that’s never okay.

But seriously AITA?

EDIT to clarify two things:

1- Roommate never claimed to be joking about selling the nudes, they were first talking about selling them but then saying that they'd never actually be able to go through with doing it, but never said that they weren't serious about considering it.

2 - the nudes were originally consensual.