Jonathan Majors Threw Glass Objects and Had ‘Violent Temper,’ Ex Testifies
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The ex-girlfriend of Jonathan Majors teared up several times and needed to take a break when she spoke of Majors’ “violent temper” during her testimony on Tuesday in the Marvel actor’s domestic violence trial, detailing past instances where she allegedly had to run and hide as Majors yelled at her and threw glass objects around a bedroom.
Grace Jabbari told the courtroom that her two-year relationship with Majors began in August 2021 after meeting on the set of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania where she worked as a movement director, saying Majors slipped her his number through his hairstylist. Their relationship moved quickly, Jabbari said, with Majors professing his love early on and wrote her poetry. “I felt very loved and cared for, and very seen,” she said. “I understood him and he understood me.”
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However, within a matter of months, Jabbari says she was scared of Majors and detailed several instances where Majors would allegedly fly into a “rage,” attempt to control her behavior, yell at her and throw glass objects around her.
It all led up to the night of the alleged attack in the back of a car in late March. Jabbari says the couple enjoyed an overall happy day together — discussing the names of their future children and marriage plans — until she saw Majors receive a romantic text from another woman. Jabbari alleges she grabbed Majors’ phone to see the text, and Majors twisted her arm behind back, squeezed and pried her fingers, and delivered a blow to the back of her head trying to retrieve his phone.
Majors then jumped out of the car, with prosecutors showing the jury surveillance video of Majors picking up and shoving Jabbari back into the SUV several times. Majors is later seen grabbing Jabbari by the arm and swiftly leading her across traffic lanes before running away with Jabbari chasing after him.
While Jabbari told the jury that she immediately felt substantial pain in her arm, finger and head, her “emotional state was that I was only thinking about the infidelity.” “The pain wasn’t registering,” Jabbari told jurors. “I was aware there was pain in my body, but I hadn’t registered anything. I’m a dancer. I’ve danced with a broken rib.” “I was thinking ‘Who is this girl?’” she added.
Majors, 34, mostly looked down as Jabbari, 30, testified. However when Jabbari began testifying about the night of the alleged attack, Majors looked up and gave Jabbari a hard, confused look. He later took glances at the jury, writing some notes for his lawyer on a Post-it note. Majors faces up to a year in jail if convicted on four misdemeanor charges of assault and harassment for allegedly attacking Jabbari. Majors has pleaded not guilty.
Earlier on Tuesday, Jabbari detailed prior tumultuous instances in her relationship with Majors. She alleged a circular pattern of behavior, where Majors would become upset with her and lash out. But Jabbari says after she apologized and calmed Majors down, the actor would apologize and vow to start fresh — sometimes calling himself a “monster” — before the next incident occurred. “He said it was my fault he got angry in the first place,” Jabbari said. Majors “rarely said sorry,” she added.
There were several times, Jabbari claimed, Majors threatened to kill himself in the aftermath of their fights, and she would have to plead with him not to do so. “I felt I was existing in his world,” Jabbari said. “Emotionally and physically, all these ways. I didn’t feel my autonomy. I had low self-esteem, I lost weight, I felt unconfident. I felt really dependent on him. He was the only one who knew what went on. I found it hard to [see my family and friends]. I felt I was lying to them.”
Jabbari said she first became scared of Majors during a visit to see him in Atlanta in December 2021 when he allegedly shouted and stood over her when she brought up an ex-boyfriend who she had shared a dog with. Majors allegedly said it was “embarrassing” that she had dated him and called the ex-boyfriend’s dog “pathetic.” After that fight, “I knew to never mention my ex again,” Jabbari said.
In July 2022, Jabbari detailed another encounter in Los Angeles where she alleges Majors flew into a “rage” while he was preparing for a bodybuilding role in Magazine Dreams, throwing glass objects around the bedroom in close proximity to Jabbari. “He exploded,” she said, claiming Majors shouted in her face and she tried to hide from him. Jabbari said she took a photo of the broken glass on the floor, which was shown to the jury, because “the shift in his temper was something I was aware of. I know I kept forgiving him, and I wanted to make a memory of [the incident].”
Jabbari said she became scared during another incident in September 2022 in England, while Majors was filming for the second season of Loki. Jabbari said she had gone to the pub with a female friend, later inviting her back into the house they shared. Majors allegedly became angry with her, later confronting her and stomping on her earphones, saying that she was “stupid if she didn’t know what she had done.” Majors told Jabbari to leave the house they shared, “ran up” the stairs to their bedroom, and began throwing and breaking objects around their bedroom. Jabbari left the home and later returned, saying Majors had apologized and wanted to start fresh. “I promised him I would never tell anyone what went on,” Jabbari said.
However, Jabbari testified that Majors became upset again when she refused to take blame for the fight and began yelling at her, which Jabbari recorded. “I am a great man! A great man. I’m doing great things,” an upset Majors says in the recording before continuing to yell and berate Jabbari. “How dare you,” he asked, as Jabbari’s voice quivered as she apologized. Majors continued to tell Jabbari that he expected to hold herself to the standards of Michelle Obama and Coretta Scott King.
On another occasion, Jabbari testified, after a fight where Majors became upset with Jabbari, she alleges that Majors told her that he “want[ed] to kill himself” and had “put actions in place to do so,” according to text messages read in court. “I’m sorry I didn’t hug you this morning,” Jabbari said in the messages to Majors and pleaded with Majors to not say such things. Jabbari said she told Majors that she would call his place of work out of concern, but Majors brushed off his earlier comments and said he was fine.
Majors’ defense has offered a radically different take of the night. Chaudhry described Jabbari as a scorned and “psycho” girlfriend, who believed she was set to be “Mrs. Majors” and when she discovered the compromising text from Cleopatra, she sought “revenge” by making false accusations against Majors.
It was Jabbari who was the aggressor in the back of the cab, Chaudhry said, scratching and bloodying Majors, who leapt out of the car to escape her. While prosecutors claim Majors threw Jabbari back into the car when she tried to follow him, Chaudhry says he “gently scooped” her up to place her back in the car and later “escorted her” to the sidewalk out of concern she would get hurt in traffic. Chaudhry pointed to surveillance footage in the alleged attack’s aftermath where Jabbari chased after Majors, went dancing and drinking at a club, and returned home as evidence of Jabbari’s injuries being inconsistent with what prosecutors have laid out.
When Majors returned to his home the following morning to check on Jabbari — who had called Majors 32 times in the fight’s aftermath — he found her unresponsive on the floor of his closet, prompting him to call 911. However, he was the one who was unfairly arrested, Chaudhry claimed. Chaudhry also plans to highlight Majors filing a counter police complaint against Jabbari in June, for which she was arrested and prosecutors declined to prosecute.
The case is expected to stretch at least another week. Although Rolling Stone previously reported that prosecutors had obtained testimonies from several women who previously dated Majors, who have alleged he was physically and/or emotionally abusive to them during their relationships, it is unclear if they will make their way into the trial. (A dozen sources told Rolling Stone in June that Majors had a history of domestic violence with two previous romantic partners. Majors denied that he was ever abusive in any relationships.)
It is also unclear if a London police report from September 2022 — which resulted in Jabbari receiving medical care — will make its way into court. London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed to Rolling Stone in November that there is an ongoing investigation into the incident that included allegations of “physical assaults.”
Before his March arrest, Majors was on track to have his biggest year yet, following the releases Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. He was also receiving early Oscar buzz for his performance as a lonely bodybuilder with violent fantasies in Magazine Dreams. However, Majors was quickly dropped by both his management and publicist teams in the wake of the accusations, and Searchlight Pictures indefinitely postponed Magazine Dreams’ December theatrical release. All that seems to be left on Majors’ calling card is Marvel, who was planning on centering the next edition of the franchise on Majors’ character, the multiverse villain Kang the Conqueror, starting with Avengers: The Kang Dynasty in 2026.
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