Jonathan Majors' Accuser Leaves Courtroom in Tears After Actor's Lawyer Mentions Her High School Ex's 'Suicide'

Jonathan Majors has pleaded not guilty to the charges in the ongoing case

During her second day of testimony, Jonathan Majors' accuser Grace Jabbari rushed from the courtroom crying over the mention of her high school boyfriend who had "committed suicide," per the actor's lawyer.

While being cross-examined, Jabbari was asked a non sequitur question — over the judge's sustained objection — by defense lawyer Priya Chaudhry about her high school boyfriend who had allegedly “committed suicide." Jabbari became visibly overwhelmed with emotion, with tears streaming down her face, and excused herself out of the courtroom.

When Jabbari, 30, returned to the courtroom minutes later, Judge Michael Gaffey leaned toward her and said: “Ms. Jabbari, we’re going to move on to a different subject now.”

Majors, 34, is facing two charges of assault in the third degree, aggravated harassment in the second degree, and harassment in the second degree for an alleged fight that ensued between the former couple in Chinatown in March after Jabbari claimed she saw a romantic text message from a woman saved in Majors’ phone as Cleopatra.

The actor, who faces up to one year in jail if convicted in the misdemeanor case, has maintained his innocence from the beginning and entered a plea of not guilty to all charges through his lawyers last week.

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Arriving in court Wednesday alongside his current girlfriend Meagan Good — who has attended the trial daily — Majors kissed the cheeks of friends and family in the audience before taking a seat between his lawyers for the second day of Jabbari’s testimony.

Dressed in a greenish gray pantsuit with a white shirt, the collar popped, Jabbari has mostly avoided looking in her ex’s direction while on the stand. Meanwhile, the actor has alternated between staring into his lap and furrowing his brow in Jabbari’s direction, as the professional dancer has alleged that his “rage and aggression” dominated their year-and-a-half-long relationship.

In opening statements, the defense focused largely on Jabbari’s decision to go to a nightclub with strangers after the alleged incident, where she ordered champagne, drank shots of tequila, passed notes to the DJ and danced into the early hours of the morning, according to the defense. (In testimony, Jabbari has maintained she was blowing off steam after a stressful night, and videos from the nightclub are not in evidence for the jury to see.)

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“This entire case is about the credibility of a woman,” Chaudhry said in opening statements, "who saw a text message from another woman on her then-boyfriend’s phone and caused the only other witness, the driver, to call her a ‘psycho.’ ”

The defense had hoped to use a counter-complaint they filed against Jabbari in trial, but that case has been subsequently sealed.

Months after the alleged incident, Chaudhry went to a police precinct in Manhattan, alleging that Jabbari had attacked her client that March night, not the other way around, and filled out the actor’s own domestic incident report in a breach of police protocol that led to verbal finger-wagging at the defense lawyer from presiding Judge Gaffey in pretrial proceedings.

Jabbari was briefly arrested in October based on the allegations, but the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has declined to prosecute the case, and the judge characterized the counter-filing months after the alleged incident as one in a series of things he deemed “very unusual” about the case, adding: “If this was an indigent New Yorker would this arrest have happened?”

Chaudhry said in opening statements that Jabbari “spent all night partying, dancing and crying about her belief that Mr. Majors was unfaithful.”

Much of Chaudhry’s cross-examination of Jabbari has centered on Jabbari’s drinking habits, sometimes seemingly conflating what Jabbari drank with what Majors drank.

In cross-examination that stretched about two hours and 45 minutes Wednesday and continues Thursday, the judge sustained some 25 objections to Chaudhry’s line of questioning, and, at one point, reminded the lawyer of basic legal principles.

“Careful about opening doors to other people,” the judge said of Chaudhry’s questions to Jabbari about people tangentially involved in the case, then referencing prosecutors: “You know they redirect.”

Following the question about the high school boyfriend who Chaudhry claimed had died by suicide — the relevance of which was never made clear because the judge ensured the subject was subsequently dropped — Jabbari, who had cried often throughout her two days of testimony, returned to the courtroom, and didn't exhibit emotion for the rest of the day.

Chaudhry later asked Jabbari if she had seen photos of herself at the nightclub the night after the alleged attack.

“Just the ones you posted,” Jabbari said quietly, to which Chaudhry objected. The judge smiled and shrugged at the defense lawyer: “That answer stands,” he said.

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