Actor Jonathan Majors admitted being aggressive and strangling his ex-girlfriend during a 2022 fight.
Jonathan, 35, was arrested on March 25, 2023 and charged with assaulting and strangling his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
However, Rolling Stone magazine obtained audio of Jonathan admitting to strangling Grace a year before that incident.
Jonathan’s attorneys claimed Grace lied and that it was she who was the aggressor.
The audio contradicts everything Jonathan and his attorneys said about Grace being the aggressor.
“I’m ashamed, I’ve never gone and… I never wrestled with a woman before, “Jonathan said in the audio tape. “I never aggressed a woman – I aggressed you.”
Jonathan’s ex told him, “You strangled me and tried to push me against the car.”
“Yes, all those things are under ‘aggressed,’ yeah,” said Jonathan.
“Because I said something sarcastically, in your eyes?” Grace asked him.
“Well clearly, it’s more than that,” Majors says.
“Something inside of you,” Grace says.
“Yeah, towards you,” he agrees, before the recording ends.
Jonathan’s fans expressed anger over the timing of the audio’s release on X (Twitter).
One fan wrote: “Notice how the ‘unearthed audio of Jonathan Majors admitting to strangling Grace Jabbari’ suddenly comes out when he’s doing press for Magazine Dreams and trying to move on with his life and not during 2023 when he lost everything.”
Listen to the audio below.
Notice how the "unearthed audio of Jonathan Majors admitting to strangling Grace Jabbari" suddenly comes out when he's doing press for Magazine Dreams and trying to move on with his life and not during 2023 when he lost everything. pic.twitter.com/YG1n1cu6Ps
— Dana Abercrombie (@sagesurge) March 17, 2025
In his new movie, Magazine Dreams, Jonathan plays a socially awkward bodybuilder named Killian Maddox, who is sexually objectified by men. Killian battles his inner demons to gain recognition.
Magazine Dreams was screened at Sundance in January 2023 and acquired by Searchlight Pictures for a release in December 2023. But Disney later pulled the film from its release schedule following Jonathan’s arrest. The movie was returned to its producers following Majors’s conviction.
Briarcliff Entertainment later acquired the domestic distribution rights to the movie. Magazine Dreams is scheduled to be released on March 21, 2025.
Watch a clip from the movie below.
Exclusive of Clip of Jonathan Majors in #MagazineDreams. Majors plays a socially awkward bodybuilder Killian Maddox, who is willing to do anything to achieve superstardom in that world even if it kills him. Think of it as influencers for bodybuilders. Oscar worthy performance pic.twitter.com/O1nfrEhxxp
— Robert Littal BSO (@BSO) March 6, 2025
