After actor Jonathan Majors was arrested last weekend, his lawyer said the accuser wrote a letter recanting his abuse charges.
According to Priya Chaudhry, Majors’ attorney, they have “two written statements from the woman recanting these charges,” which she shared with the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. The young actor was arrested on Saturday in New York and charged with strangulation, assault and harassment.
After receiving a 911 call from an apartment complex in New York on Saturday morning, police said they arrested Majors. According to a statement released by the NYPD, Majors had a “domestic altercation” with a 30-year-old woman who said she was assaulted.
The woman suffered mild head and neck trauma and was sent to a nearby hospital. By Sunday morning, his condition had remained stable.
The victim in an argument with a lady he knows, as Chaudhry puts it, “is absolutely innocent and proven.” In a statement immediately after the arrest, Chaudhry claimed the woman was “suffering from an emotional breakdown, for which she was rushed to hospital” and that Majors “did not abuse her at all. “.
The team representing Majors said they are “immediately gathering and presenting evidence” to the district attorney, which includes video footage of “the car where this episode took place” and witness statements.
On Saturday night, a court granted a limited protective order and ordered Majors released on his own, according to The New York Times.
Following Majors’ arrest, the U.S. Army pulled a pair of Army commercials featuring the action hero. On Sunday, a spokesman for the US military issued a statement to the Los Angeles Times expressing “great concern over the allegations”.
Mr. Majors is presumed innocent until proven guilty, but we believe it is prudent to suspend publicity until further investigation into these charges is complete.
The New York Times reports that on May 8, Majors, who can be seen in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “Creed III,” will appear in court.