Actor and comedian T.J. Miller has been accused of sexual assault.
The Silicon Valley and Deadpool star has been accused of sexual assault and choking a woman, who has since chosen to remain anonymous.
However, during an interview with The Daily Beast, the woman claims being subjected to sexual assault and physical violence by Miller while they were both studying at the George Washington University in Washington D.C.
“He just tried a lot of things without asking me, and at no point asked me if I was all right,” she explained. “He choked me, and I kept staring at his face hoping he would see that I was afraid and [that he] would stop… I couldn’t say anything.”
The pair reportedly met as members of GWU’s comedy troupe, receSs, and eventually began a relationship. Months later, she claims Miller invited her back to his place where she claims she was ‘violently shaken’ and ‘punched in the mouth during sex’ which apparently left her with a bloody lip and fractured tooth.
Allegedly, Miller told her she had fallen down the stairs.
“I couldn’t bring myself [at the time] to believe this had happened,” she explained. “It was me not wanting it to be true.”
A second incident reportedly occurred after a college party.
(The woman stresses that she did not have more than two drinks at the party and remembers the events clearly).
“We started to fool around, and very early in that, he put his hands around my throat and closed them, and I couldn’t breathe,” she said. “I was genuinely terrified and completely surprised. I understand now that this is for some people a kink, and I continue to believe it is [something] that should be entered into by consenting parties. But, as someone who had only begun having sexual encounters, like, about three months earlier, I had no awareness this was a kink, and I had certainly not entered into any agreement that I would be choked.”
The woman claims she was ‘fully paralyzed’ and was ‘choking audibly’.
In fact, she claims that her roommates heard her choking, and knocked the door to check that she was okay. She told them not to worry out of fear of how Miller would respond.
“He pulled me back to bed and more things happened,” The woman said. “He anally penetrated me without my consent, which I actually believe at that point I cried out, like, ‘No,’ and he didn’t continue to do that – but he also had a [beer] bottle with him the entire time. He used the bottle at one point to penetrate me without my consent.”
Miller left her apartment the next morning, and she told her roommates what happened.
“She looked like she had been through a rough night,” explained one of her rommates. “I recall seeing bruises… One roommate asked if she wanted to go to the police. Others offered to take her to the hospital, given how she looked.”
The incident was not reported to campus police until a year later.
“I was not ready to reconcile the events taking place with the person I had known,” she said. “It was so disorienting and so physically traumatic.” The ‘trial period’ only lasted a couple of weeks, and the University allegedly told the woman that the incident could not be resolved.
However, T.J. Miller has already issued a response.
He and his wife claim that the accuser “began again to circulate rumors online” after they went public with their relationship.
“Sadly, she is now using the current climate to bandwagon and launch these false accusations,” they stated. “It is unfortunate that she is choosing this route as it undermines the important movement to make women feel safe coming forward about legitimate claims against real known predators.”
“We met this woman over a decade ago while studying together in college, she attempted to break us up back then by plotting for over a year before making contradictory claims and accusations,” they claimed in a statement. “She was asked to leave our university comedy group because of worrisome and disturbing behavior, which angered her immensely, she then became fixated on our relationship, and began telling people around campus ‘I’m going to destroy them’ and ‘I’m going to ruin him’.”
His accuser denies the Millers’ claim.
