Taylor Swift testified in court against a Colorado DJ she’s suing for alleged sexual assault. The pop queen emotionally told the jury that David Mueller ‘definitely grabbed’ her butt at a 2013 meet-and-greet.
Taylor Swift, 27, finally took the stand on August 10 in a Denver court to testify against the Colorado JJ, David Mueller, 55, who she’s accused of sexual assault. Taylor went in front of the eight-person jury to state that David allegedly groped her at a concert meet-and-greet in Denver in 2013, and to take a stand “for all women” against sexual assault. “It was a definite grab,” Taylor told the court, according to reporters live tweeting the trial. “He stayed latched on to my bare as s ch week as I moved away from him visibly uncomfortable.”
Taylor reportedly told the jury that it was “a very long grab,” that lasted, “Long enough for me to be completely sure that it was intentional,” court reporter Clayton Sandell of ABC News tweeted. Taylor testified that at first, she thought it was a mistake, so she “got as far away from his as I could.” But David allegedly didn’t let go, and allegedly kept his hand on her butt. “He was busy grabbing my ass underneath my skirt,” Taylor reportedly said on the stand. She also reportedly appeared to sound agitated with the prosecutor for their line of questioning, according to Sandell, telling the attorney, “Your client could have taken a normal photo with me.”
Sandell continued to tweet from the courtroom. Taylor reportedly explained to the jury that she didn’t say anything about David allegedly groping her while at the meet-and-greet because it would’ve cut things short for the fans waiting to see her. Taylor and David’s attorney reportedly went back-and-forth about whether or not her bodyguard, Greg Dent, saw anything happen. She said she didn’t blame him for not stopping the alleged groping — she blamed David. She also shockingly stated on the stand that David and his then-girlfriend Shannon Melcher, who was standing on Taylor’s other side in the photo, allegedly “appeared to be drunk” at the meet-and-greet.
After more sparring with the prosecution over her bodyguard, Taylor adamantly disagreed that David accidentally touched her. David claimed earlier that he simply had his hands on her “rib cage or ribs,” and Taylor was having none of that. “He did not touch my rib,” Taylor reportedly testified. “He did not touch my arm, He did not touch my hand. He grabbed my bare ass…This was not jostling…”He was too busy grabbing my ass underneath my skirt,” she said, according to Buzzfeed‘s Claudia Rosenbaum, to allegedly grab her ribs. “It was a very shocking thing that I have never dealt with before…He grabbed my ass underneath my skirt. It was underneath my skirt”
She reportedly later said that she had “no reaction” to David getting fired from the radio station. “I just wanted to never have to see him again…It was a product of his decisions, not mine.”
Source: http://hollywoodlife.com/2017/08/10/taylor-swift-testifies-groping-case-dj-court-definite-ass-grab/
