Alarming text messages entered into evidence in Jonathan Majors’ trial appear to show the actor admitted beating his ex-girlfriend.
The judge in Majors’ domestic violence trial took issue with how Majors’ defense team was cross-examining Grace Jabbari on Friday.
Judge Michael Gaffey previously ruled the text messages were inadmissible as evidence. He allowed the texts into evidence on Friday after Majors’ attorney Priya Chaudhry asked Jabbari why she didn’t report him to the police after he allegedly assaulted her.
Judge Gaffey said Chaudhry’s grilling of Jabbari opened the door to allow the old text messages into evidence.
The text messages show Majors asking Jabbari not to go to the doctor after he allegedly flew into a rage and beat her in the north London home they shared while he was filming “Magazine Dreams.”
Majors, 34, encouraged Jabbari not to go to the hospital for an injury she suffered during the altercation.
“It’s just fake,” Majors texted Jabbari. “And you have, I fear, no perspective of what could happen if you go to the hospital. They will ask you questions and, as I don’t think you can actually protect us, it could lead to an investigation, even if you do lie and they suspect something.”
Jabbari texted back that she would protect Majors.
“I will tell the doctor that I bumped my head,” she texted him, according to a message read to the jury.
Jabbari broke down in tears as she began to read the texts aloud to the jury.
Manhattan assistant district attorney Kelli Galiway finished reading the text message.
“If I go I’m going to give it one more day. But I can’t sleep and I need some stronger painkillers. Why would I tell them what really happened when it’s clear I want to be with you.”
In another text message exchange, Majors wrote: “Last night I considered killing myself versus coming home. Last night you said you needed love and I tried to put my feelings aside. But I need love too. Or maybe I’m such a monster and horrible man, I don’t deserve it. And I should just kill myself. This way of existence is miserable, I want to die.”
Jabbari responded: “I will not go to the doctor if you don’t feel safe with me doing so, or don’t trust me to. I promise you I would never mention you but I understand your fear.”
Majors wrote back: “I will probably kill myself, it’s not really contemplating anymore… I’m a monster, a horrible man, not capable of love. I’m killing myself soon.”
“Jonathan you can’t say this. I’m going to have to call someone. I’m sorry for not hugging you this morning,” Jabbari replied, adding later, “I love you. So much.”
After the text messages were read aloud in court, the prosecution asked Jabbari why she initially said she didn’t know how she got her injuries.
“I was scared of the consequences of it,” she said. “Still wanted to protect him I guess.”
Majors is on trial for assaulting Jabbari in the back seat of a car in New York on March 25. He faces up to one year in jail if convicted.
