Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good
Caitlin Huston
Jonathan Majors’ ex-partner, Grace Jabbari, continued her testimony Wednesday with her account of injuries she said were caused by Majors during an altercation in March and answers as to why she was not immediately forthcoming to police.
Majors faces four charges of misdemeanor assault, aggravated harassment and harassment after police responded to a 911 call on March 25 and Jabbari claimed the injuries came from Majors. The Marvel actor has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
It remains unclear whether Majors will testify in the trial, which is expected to last two weeks. He spent most of Jabbari’s testimony seated with his defense attorneys, looking downwards, with his current girlfriend, Meagan Good, and family members sitting behind him.
In her testimony Tuesday, Jabbari said the March 25 incident began after midnight, when Majors and Jabbari were in a private car home and she observed a text message on Majors’ phone. The alleged text was shown in court Wednesday, reading, “Oh how I wish to be kissing you,” and sent in response to Majors sending the song “Lady” by D’Angelo.
Jabbari said she tried to grab the phone from Majors, who then pried her finger from the phone, grabbed her arm and right hand, twisted her forearm and then struck her right ear to get the phone away from her. She testified that Majors ordered the car to stop and when she tried to leave the car, that Majors picked her up and threw her back inside.
On Wednesday, Jabbari picked up the narrative after she had gone to a club with three individuals who she said were trying to help her and comfort her after they witnessed the incident. She returned to the apartment she shared with Majors in the early morning and exchanged texts with him, as he ended the relationship. She said she was unable to sleep due to the pain from her injuries, took two sleeping pills and then later became ill in the bathroom, where she remained for hours.
She awoke to police standing around her, which she said she later learned was due to Majors returning home, finding her and calling 911, with the assumption she had tried self-harm that night (which she denies). She was reluctant to tell them details about how she received her injuries, she said, because she did not want to get the actor in trouble and said she also knew it would make him angry.
“I alluded to it in the safest way I felt possible,” Jabbari said. “I could hear Jonathan in the next room.”
She added that she was “worried” about Majors and not aware he would be charged in this incident. She later asked prosecutors to drop a strangulation charge she said was erroneous.
“I always felt guilty for the fact that he was there in a way,” Jabbari said. “I just wanted to reassure him that I didn’t tell them to arrest him.”
Throughout her testimony, she was frequently asked by prosecutors whether she felt in pain, her range of mobility and the level of her pain — which ranged from being unable to feel it during the night while in a heightened emotional state to intense pain as the hours passed, she said. She was also repeatedly asked by prosecutors about her level of intoxication — the highest level was “tipsy,” she said, after having drinks across several hours from the night of March 24 into March 25.
Chaudhry brought up Jabbari’s level of intoxication in cross-examination and pushed back on Jabbari’s state when found by police, saying that she was not able to tell them her name or what happened, as well as texts with her friend, in which she said she was “scrappy” with Majors. Chaudhry also addressed the altercation in the car and asked whether Jabbari had made noise while alleging she was in “excruciating pain” from the injuries as well as specifics about Jabbari grabbing Majors’ jacket.
Asked during direct examination by the prosecutors how this trial and the alleged incident have impacted her life, Jabbari replied, “extremely negatively.”
“It’s just been a lot of unwanted attention over a really difficult period of my life. One I would like to keep quite private,” Jabbari said.