Actor Jonathan Majors' ex-girlfriend testified he used suicide threats to control her
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The ex-girlfriend of Marvel actor Jonathan Majors testified on Tuesday, December 5, that he manipulated her by threatening to kill himself to control her.
When taking the stand for the first time in New York County Criminal Court, Grace Jabbari testified that she was “scared” of Majors, but also feared he would hurt himself if she left him.
Majors, Jabbari told the court, would send her threatening messages “after he became angry with me”.
She also said she suffered two years of verbal abuse before he allegedly assaulted her last March in the backseat of a rental car.
“Things are moving,” Majors said, Jabbari testified. “I had to constantly take care of him, I worried because I didn’t want that to happen.”
Majors is charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment in connection with a March 25 incident that erupted, according to Manhattan prosecutors, after Jabbari saw a message on the actor's phone from another woman named Cleopatra.
“I wish I was kissing you,” the text message read, Jabbari told the court on Tuesday.
In their opening statement Monday, prosecutors said Majors slapped Jabbari in the face and fractured the middle finger on one of his hands. And when Jabbari got out of the car, Majors threw her back inside “like a football,” they said.
Majors, 34, has denied assaulting Jabbari and his lawyers say he was the victim of a jilted lover who left him bloodied and that he went to clubs with three strangers after the alleged abusive encounter.
Majors was also in court while Jabbari testified. His current girlfriend, actress Meagan Good, was also in court.
Jabbari, who was wearing a pantsuit, told how they met in 2021 on the set of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and how, in the beginning, their relationship was “kind and loving”. a family.
The 30-year-old British dancer said they split their time between homes in New York, Los Angeles and London before settling in a penthouse apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood in March.
Jabbari said that during their relationship she was constantly “nervous” because of the actor's mercurial moods and that their arguments were sometimes punctuated by the actor breaking objects in her house.
At one point, prosecutors played an audio recording Jabbari made during an argument with Majors.
Jabbari said that as time went on, she began to feel more and more isolated.
“I had low self-esteem, I lost a lot of weight,” she told the court.
“I felt very dependent on him because he was the only one who knew what was going on. I still tried to see my friends and family, but I felt like I was lying to them.
On the day of the alleged assault, Jabbari said that after “a very pleasant morning” they decided to watch a play in the evening. But in the elevator, Jabbari said Majors suddenly told him to button his blouse.
It was then that Major's mood “changed,” Jabbari said.
They each had two drinks at the play, Jabbari said. Afterward, while having dinner at a Brooklyn restaurant, Majors berated her for confiding in a friend that he had been abusive, Jabbari testified.
“He kept saying, 'I'm going to kill myself, this time I'm going to do it',” Jabbari told the court.
But it was on the way back to Manhattan that the situation deteriorated after she saw the text message on Majors' phone, Jabbari testified.
“I was so surprised,” she testified.
Majors kept saying, “Honey, honey, it’s not what it seems,” Jabbari said.
“Let me check the messages,” Jabbari told Majors before taking his phone.
Within seconds, Majors was on top of her trying to “knock the phone out of my fingers,” she said.
Jabbari told the court he managed to escape from the SUV. His account appeared to be supported by video footage that prosecutors showed to the jury of six men and six women — and which appeared to capture Majors exiting the vehicle and pushing Jabbari back inside.
Later, the footage appeared to show Majors and Jabbari in the street before Majors ran off with his girlfriend chasing him.
“I was really heartbroken and sad,” Jabbari told the court.
Jabbari is expected to be questioned by Majors' lawyers on Wednesday. In her opening statement, the actor's lawyer Priya Chaudhry painted Jabbari as a jilted lover who sought to derail her partner's career as revenge.
Chaudhry also suggested that the fact that Majors is black and Jabbari is white is the reason he – and not she – was arrested after the alleged altercation.
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