Amy Schumer, Whitney Cummings react to sexual abuse allegations against Chris D'Elia

Amy Schumer is speaking out amid allegations that fellow comedian Chris D'Elia inappropriately messaged and groomed underage women over the years.

Without directly naming D'Elia, Schumer in a Twitter post Saturday night applauded the "brave women coming forward... about the mistreatment they have experienced at the hands of comedians or in any other profession. Especially the ones who weren't of legal age to consent."

She continued: "There are great men out there. And there are men who humiliate and abuse women and girls because of a power dynamic or because when they were that age girls wouldn't talk to them. Whatever your reasoning is, or was. We are watching you and we are all together now and we won't accept this behavior whether you break the law or not."

Schumer extended support to those who needed support or to talk: "Reach out and I'll try to help as best I can," she concluded.

Comedian, writer and producer Whitney Cummings also spoke out about the allegations against her former TV co-star.

“It’s taken me a couple days to process the information I have learned about Chris. I’m devastated and enraged by what I’ve read and learned. This is a pattern of predatory behavior," Cummings wrote in a statement posted to Twitter Saturday.

"This abuse of power is enabled by silence. Now that I’m aware, I won’t be silent,” she continued. “Girls should be able to be a fan of a comedian they admire without being a sexual target. It’s the adult’s responsibility to be an adult.”

Cummings' eponymous NBC sitcom "Whitney" provided D'Elia, a comedian, with his first series-regular role on a broadcast network show. It ran from 2011 to 2013.

After "Whitney" was canceled, D'Elia, 40, landed the lead role in another NBC comedy, "Undateable," in 2014. Most recently, he's had a guest arcs on ABC's "The Good Doctor" and the second season of Netflix's "You."

Underage teenage girls flooded social media on Tuesday after Twitter user Simone Rossi accused him of "grooming" her when she was 16.

"imagine being 16 and being groomed by a stand up comedian twice ur age and the only reason you never met up and never got physically (molested) was because u had just gotten a boyfriend ur own age," Rossi tweeted under the username @girlpowertbh. "for the longest time i thought this was just a funny story to tell at parties when i realized what happened isn’t normal and that he was and could still be doing this to younger girls and it’s my job to say something"

More allegations from unverified Twitter accounts accused the comedian of inviting teenage girls to meet up with him after his shows and asking them to send photos of themselves.

"Although i’ve been publicly saying it for years, (expletive) Chris D’elia," wrote @michaelacoletta. "he solicited nudes off of me when i was 17 years old and constantly messaged me whenever he was touring vancouver and asked me to come backstage to his shows."

User @badhandjob accused the comedian of soliciting naked photographs from minors in Vancouver and trying to have sex with her 16-year-old friend.

"and when i called u out on twitter you told her you’d ruin her life if i didn’t delete it," she added. "absolute pedophile scumbag"

Rossi later tweeted that D'Elia "does not deserve a platform of any kind."

"i told you i wasn’t the only one," she wrote. "remove his stand up shows from streaming sites. stop booking him for shows. stop ingesting his god awful 'jokes.' "

In a statement to USA TODAY, D'Elia said that all of his relationships have been legal and consensual.

“I know I have said and done things that might have offended people during my career, but I have never knowingly pursued any underage women at any point," he said. "I have never met or exchanged any inappropriate photos with the people who have tweeted about me."

He continued, "That being said, I really am truly sorry. I was a dumb guy who ABSOLUTELY let myself get caught up in my lifestyle. That’s MY fault. I own it. I’ve been reflecting on this for some time now and I promise I will continue to do better.”

Contributing: Hannah Yasharoff, Charles Trepany, USA TODAY

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Chris D'Elia: Whitney Cummings, Amy Schumer talk sex abuse allegations