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Derek Dixonactor Sues Tyler Perry For sexual assault and harassment, he appeared at the interview at ABC News on Tuesday to describe in detail his allegations against the fun possible. Dixon He says Perry took advantage of him as he was acting on the bet of the manufacturer of the “oval”. Pryri’s lawyers betrayed statements that deny claims.
In conversation with ABC news, Dixon played in detail the alleged incident involved in the lawsuit, in which Perry “pulled my underwear” after the night of drinking in Perry’s residence in Atlanta.
“We both came back to guests, where I stayed before, and it was on the way that health monitoring scale. I was like,” What is it? “And he said,” Well, you have to be in the underwear to measure. “He visited me the underwear and grabbed my ass and I tried to stop him and return the underwear,” Dixon told the interview. “Somehow grabbed my arms and said,” No no no, it’s okay. Just go with it. “And I said, ‘Stop, I don’t want to be naked. I don’t want this.’ And he said, “I won’t hurt you.” “
“Unless someone walked through something where they were taken control of your body, you don’t understand the feelings that you enter that moment,” Dixon continued. “Every thought came into my head: to run, to fight, I freeze. I didn’t know what to do.”
The evening allegedly finished with Dikon locked in the bathroom in the house. He says Perry called to apologize to the next day. Dixon says that he stayed in Perrio’s guest house in the previous evening before, where Perry reportedly “climbed” with him and “she started rubbing his leg.”
“I jumped out of bed. He said,” Turn so I can look at you, “and I just commented on how I looked. And he got up and left,” Dixon said Don Don Don. “I was thinking of that example, it was pretty clear that I wasn’t about the kind of relationship. … It’s okay to try, but if they refuse, I think it’s going to stop. I thought it would stop.
Variety He scored Perry representatives for comment on Dikon’s interview.
Dixon also says that Perry sent him numerous texts with sex connotations. As in his lawsuit Dixon says he was afraid of professional retaliation if he ignored Perry’s messages. In the episode of the season 2 “oval”, “Dikon’s character has been shot several times – the solution to the script that Dixon took it like,” If I don’t make him, I could stay dead on the show. “
“For me, it was his way to show power over us and our career,” Dixon said. “I was extremely anxious. Calls and texts are almost everyday. This constant state” If I don’t answer, I’ll lose my job. I will be fired or killed from the show. “It took a huge-toll on my anxiety and depressed.”
Dixon left the show in September 2024. years. His lawsuit against Perry was submitted in June. Dixon seeks $ 260 million in Perry’s criminal damage.
“The part of that number is my lost job – my lost income, a loss of emissions. The second part it is to stop the billionaire that will not prevent it,” Dixon said. “I hope you take responsibility for what happened and I hope you learned you not to treat your employees in this way. Never use someone’s dream to force them. It is not professional.” It is not professional. “It is not professional
And in the lawsuit and conversation, Dixon also says Perry agreed to produce a pilot who wrote, for the show called “Looks.” Perry reportedly still owns rights.
Pryri’s lawyers refused Dikon’s allegations, characterizing the lawsuit as “Shakedown”. In the statement of pressing after submitting the application, Perry’s lawyer Matthew Boyd wrote: “This is an individual who approached Tyler Perry What makes nothing more than placing a fraud now. But Tyler will not be shocking and convinced that these invented disturbances of harassment will fail. “
