Jonathan Majors wipes away tears as he says he was ‘shocked and afraid’ at assault conviction
Fired Marvel star Jonathan Majors wiped away tears during his first interview about his conviction for assaulting ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari — saying he was “absolutely shocked and afraid” at being found guilty.
“I’m standing there and the verdict comes down,” he told “Good Morning America” in a tearful sitdown that aired Monday.
“I say, ‘How is that possible based off the evidence, based off 🀅𝄹the prosecution’s evidence, let alone our evidence? How is that possible?’”
The moment the guilty verdict was announced in Manhattan Criminal Court on Dec. 18 was, he said, “like the world stopped.”
“It’s like you work so hard for things. And then you know, it’s done,” said th🍃e 34-year-old actor who had been set to become the next major Marvel villain as Kang the Conqueror.
Majors was arrested on March 25 af𒉰ter he and Jabbari got into a domestic dispute&nb♋sp;while taking a taxi home from a bar in Br🍒ooklyn.
The altercation began when Jabbari saw Majors getting a text from another woman, saying, “I wish I was kissing you,” she testified in court.
Jabbari, 🍬aཧ 31-year-old dancer from England, accused Majors of slapping her, fracturing her finger, twisting her arm, and striking her right ear, causing her to bleed, while she held onto the cellphone.
The disgraced actor conceded mistakes in his relationship with Jabbari, including not ending it sooner when it was cle💦ar it was not working.
However, he maintained that he did not beat her, saying he “wished to God” he knew how she got her injuries.
“I was reckless with her heart. Not with her body,” he told “GMA.”
“I was not the best boyfriend all the time — but never hit a woman. My hands have never struck a woman,” he maintained.
“I’m an athlete. I’m a sportsman, I know my body. I know how it moves. I know my strength or lack thereof, you know?
“None of that was employed on her.”
Still, he told ABC News’ Linsey Davis that picking Jabbari up that night was “one of the biggest mistakes of my life” — while blaming his legal woes on racism.
“From my experience, from my point of view, a young black man in any situation with anyone honestly, if the authorities get involved in any way, there’s goin🦄g to be conversation, conflict, trauma,” he said.
“If you watch those videos and you reverse ♎that, and you saw a black man chasing a young white girl down the street, screaming and crying, that man is gonna be shot and killed in the streets of New York City.
“That black man will feel that.”
But in court, prosecutors claimed Majors inflicted a “manipulative pattern of psychological abuse” and physical a🍰buse, which culminated🔴 in the assault in the SUV.
They read text messages he sent in which he implored Jabbari not to seek medical attention in Septembe𓄧r 2022 for a head injury, though it is unclear how she received the alleged injury.
Majors reportedly texted, “It could lead to an investigation event if 🗹you do 💧lie and they suspect something.”
The “Lovecraft Country” star told “GMA” that the injuries were fake, and he received a text message about the head injury the morning after an argument.
𝓡“I received these text messages and I was like, ‘This is literally a nightmare.’
“‘I don’t know what’s wr🐻ong. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know what injuries ಌyou’re talking about,’” he claimed.
Jurors also heard a recording Jabbari took on her iPhone of Majors demanding she behave like Coretta Scott Kingﷺ or Michelle Obama.
In the recording, Majors could be heard sayin🐭g he is a “great man” who does “great things for my culture and for the worl🥃d” and that “the woman that supports me needs to be a great woman.”
The actor said in the interview on Monday he was simply “trying to give an analogy of what it is I’m aspiring to be, you know, th🦩ese great men — Martin, President Obama — and trying to give a reference point to that.
“I was attempting, and I did a terrible job at it appar💜ently, I was attempting to motivate, to enlighten, to give perspectives to what it is I was hoping to get out of the relationship.”
Majors was convicted on Dec. 18 of one count of third-degree assault and one count of harassment, but was acquitted of another count of assaultಞ and one charge of aggr✱avated harassment.
He is set to be sentenced on Feb. 6, an♐d faces up to a year in jail.
An attorney who represented Jabbari in court, Brittany Henderson, told The Post Monday that “it is not at all surprising that Mr. Majors continues to take no accountability for his actions.
“His denigration of our jury system is not dissimilar from th🐓e above-the-law attitude that he has maintained throughout this legal process,” she said.
“The timing of these new stat💯ements demonstrates a clear lack of remorse for the actions for which he was found guilty and should make the sentencing decisions fairly easy for the court.
“Ms. Jabbari will continue to speak the truth and seek justice in the appropriate forums in a continu⛄ed effort to respect🐓 our legal process.”
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office 𝕴declined to comment Monday, saying, “We do our spe♑aking in court.”
