{"id":344049,"date":"2017-08-11T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T08:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=344049"},"modified":"2017-08-11T08:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T08:56:38","slug":"taylor-swift-gives-evidence-in-court-in-groping-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=344049","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift gives evidence in court in groping case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US singer Taylor Swift has described in court the moment she says she was groped by radio DJ David Mueller during a meet and greet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a definite grab. A very long grab,&#8221; said the 27-year-old, who is suing Mr Mueller, 55, over the alleged incident, which he denies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was intentional,&#8221; she told the court in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt him grab on to my ass cheek under my skirt. He grabbed my ass underneath my skirt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The singer, who was responding to questions from Mr Mueller&#8217;s lawyer, added: &#8220;He stayed latched on to my bare ass cheek as I lurched away from him. [His hand] didn&#8217;t let go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a very shocking thing. I had never dealt with something like this before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/178AC\/production\/_97282469_swift_reuters.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift court sketch\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>The alleged assault is said to have occurred in 2013, during a Denver stopover on Taylor Swift&#8217;s Red tour. Mr Mueller, then a host on the top-rated radio station KYGO, had been invited to meet her before the show.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Swift complained to KYGO and the station fired Mr Mueller two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mueller sued the singer, saying that Ms Swift&#8217;s allegation cost him his job. She countersued one month later, describing the groping incident as &#8220;completely intentional&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When Mr Mueller&#8217;s lawyer, Gabriel McFarland, asked why her bodyguard did not interfere when the alleged incident happened, she said: &#8220;No-one could have expected this to happen&#8230; It had never happened before. It was horrifying and shocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also rejected the assumption that she misidentified Mr Mueller, saying: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to allow you or your client to say I am to blame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/13F21\/production\/_97279618_c23bbe4a-822a-4993-9386-b73ec7a273f8.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift and her mother, Andrea\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>The 55-year-old denies any inappropriate behaviour. Earlier in court, when asked if he had grabbed her, he said: &#8220;No, I did not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Swift took the stand the day after\u00a0her mother gave her testimony\u00a0and described how she wanted to &#8220;vomit and cry&#8221; when her daughter told her about the alleged incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US singer Taylor Swift has described in court the moment she says she was groped by radio DJ David Mueller during a meet and greet. &#8220;It was a definite grab. A very long grab,&#8221; said the 27-year-old, who is suing Mr Mueller, 55, over the alleged incident, which he denies. &#8220;It was intentional,&#8221; she told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-344049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}