Former ‘Silicon Valley’ Star T.J. Miller Accused Of Sexual Assault & Abuse

Former Silicon Valley actor T.J. Miller has been accused of sexually assaulting and physically abusing a woman while they were both in college.

An extensive report over at The Daily Beast alleges that rumours about Miller’s conduct have followed him since he was a student and comic at George Washington University. The woman accusing him, who remains unnamed, says that she was initially in a consensual relationship with Miller when he began to treat her violently during sex.

He just tried a lot of things without asking me, and at no point asked me if I was all right. He choke[d] me, and I kept staring at his face hoping he would see that I was afraid and [that he] would stop… I couldn’t say anything.

She accuses him of shaking her and punching her in the mouth during sex, and says that at one point he initiated anal sex without her consent, and penetrated her with a beer bottle. She alleges Miller also choked her violently during sex without discussing it prior:

We started to fool around, and very early in that, he put his hands around my throat and closed them, and I couldn’t breathe. I was genuinely terrified and completely surprised. I understand now that this is for some people a kink, and I continue to believe it is [something] that should be entered into by consenting parties. But, as someone who had only begun having sexual encounters, like, about three months earlier, I had no awareness this was a kink, and I had certainly not entered into any agreement that I would be choked. I was paralysed.

The Daily Beast claim they have corroborated the woman’s account with five other people at George Washington University at the same time, including her roommates. They also cite a number of people in the comedy scene who say that they were aware of the allegations – either because they had been told about them, or because Miller himself had brought them up in private conversation.

Miller and his wife Kate Miller issued a joint statement denying the woman’s claims, alleging that she is “using the current climate as a bandwagon” to prosecute grievances from back in college.

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“Sadly she is now using the current climate to bandwagon and launch these false accusations again,” the Millers wrote. “It is unfortunate that she is choosing this route as it undermines the important movement to make women feel safe coming forward about legitimate claims against real known predators.”

You can read the whole report over at the Daily Beast.

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