On Tuesday, the second day of the trial, actor Jonathan Majors‘ accuser, Grace Jabbari, went on the stand as the first witness in the misdemeanor assault case against him.
As Assistant District Attorney Kelli Galaway questioned Jabbari, 30, who was dressed in a plaid jacket and pants, she appeared to take a deep breath and let it out before starting her direct examination.
As she introduced herself to the jury, Grace Jabbari said, “Nice to meet you.” “I’m a professional dancer.”
Majors, according to Jabbari, became enraged with her for the first time in December 2021, and he listed multiple instances of his aggression and meanness.
One of the incidents that Jabbari remembered was in July 2022, when they were sharing a house in West Hollywood, and he began throwing objects at her.
“The candle was the first item he threw,” Jabbari stated while displaying a picture of the room to the jury. “The dent in the wall is one of the candles.”
She indicated where she was standing with a pen.
“I took the photo since the shift in his temper was a thing that I was aware of,” Jabbari explained. “I simply needed to keep in mind. I wanted to have some sort of recollection of it, even though I know I kept forgiving him.”
Jabbari frequently provided testimony through tense laughter, occasionally capping her answers with a giggle.
She questioned, “Is this a test?” when Galaway inquired about the ages of her three siblings.
Majors, 34, entered the courtroom with his current girlfriend Meagan Good, who has been present for every day of the proceedings, and sat at the defense table dressed in a gray suit. He had a Bible and a cup with him.
As Jabbari talked about her training and career in dance, Majors did not seem to be glancing at her.
Sitting across the aisle from Majors’s friends and family in the front row were Jabbari’s family members.
Majors, who has portrayed Kang in several Marvel movies and television series, is charged with beating Jabbari on March 25 in the backseat of an SUV that was being rented out. It is said that she grabbed his phone when a message from a different woman appeared, stating, “Wish I was kissing you.”
While serving as movement director at Pinewood, United Kingdom’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” set, Jabbari got to know Majors, whom she admitted to having seen in a courtroom.
“In one of the breaks he got over to me, near-ish the monitor, to ask me what I was doing, why I was here. I said, ‘Oh I’m a dancer, and I’m focusing on movement,'” Jabbari said.
He went on a date, according to her, after his hair stylist gave her his number. According to her, things moved along “quickly.”
“We spent every day together and maybe minus a few, over the next few months,” Jabbari claimed. “He made it clear he loved me very early on.”
Majors would cite Jabbari’s poetry, according to her.
She remarked, “I felt incredibly loved and cared for.”
According to Jabbari, Majors got upset with her for the first time in December 2021 when she was scheduled to meet his dogs.
She claimed that Majors provided her with detailed guidelines on how to act around the dogs. Jabbari then brought up her ex-boyfriend’s dog, claiming that when he saw it, he got upset and started to yell.
Majors told her, “How dare I mention him,” according to Jabbari. “He finds it embarrassing that I dated him.” His dog is a pitiful animal. such type of material.”
She admitted to the jury, “It was the very first time I felt scared of him.”
Jabbari also talked about a June 2022 festival she attended where she had trouble getting cellphone reception and Majors had been “not very nice” about it.
“Just that I ought not to be there so how dare I go,” she stated. “You’re just hanging out drinking with your friends and I’ve had a really hard week.”
Jabbari stated that he “was quite stressed” after working out as a bodybuilder for a film.
After shooting a movie in London in September 2022, Jabbari moved in with Majors. On a Sunday, she recalled, she and her friends had gone to the pub and then came home together.
“He was becoming a little irritable. Very prompt in his replies,” she remarked. She ushered everyone out of the house, according to Jabbari. She claimed that the next day, they met at a park, where he began yelling at her, ripping her headphones off her head, and accusing her of being an alcoholic.
Majors had said, “Better not be in the apartment when I get home,” according to Jabbari.
When Jabbari finished telling the story on the stand, he started crying and asked the judge to give him a break.
Resuming her testimony, Jabbari stated that she went from the park to the house she shared with Majors, where she began packing but “froze” upon hearing Majors approach.
“He continued to grab everything … and simply threw it, swiping it, moving it, while throwing it, anything I purchased for him he was breaking,” said Jabbari. “I just said, ‘You can stop, I’m going away, just please stop.'”
It scared, upset, and confused her, she said, adding that he was “blaming” her for having “disturbed the peace, something like that.”
Jabbari recorded Majors yelling at her and demanding that she act like Michelle Obama or Coretta Scott King, which she played for the jury. The recording was made with her iPhone.
“I’m a wonderful man. A wonderful man. I make significant contributions to both the world and my culture. Majors can be heard on the tape stating, “The woman who supports me needs to be a great woman.” “You didn’t do that two nights ago. which diminished the plan.
Jabbari clarified that her interpretation was that “he had to come first.” Jabbari stopped crying and explained what transpired when he stopped yelling.
Jabbari testified, “I just kept saying ‘I’m sorry,’ and I took all the blame.” “I just took all of the blame to calm him down.”
She claimed that despite her vow to keep the incident to herself, she was left feeling “quite frightened of him yet still dependent on him.”
On charges of misdemeanor assault and harassment, Majors has entered a not-guilty plea. If found guilty, he could spend a year behind bars.