Jonathan Majors Had a History of Abuse in Relationships, Women Say

MS. DUNCAN AND MS. HOOPER’S RELATIONSHIPS with Mr. Majors briefly overlapped, although neither initially realized it.

When Ms. Hooper and Mr. Majors started courting, she stated that he shortly expressed deep love for her but additionally turned controlling, dictating the place she might go, who she might socialize with and the way she might behave. She was “not allowed to speak to anyone about their relationship, isolating her from a support system,” in line with the pretrial assertion. She turned a shadow of herself, a Yale classmate stated.

Ms. Chaudhry described Mr. Majors as “young and insecure” on the time of his relationship with Ms. Hooper. “Looking back, he is embarrassed by some of his jealous behavior,” she stated.

Ms. Hooper received pregnant just a few months into the connection. When she informed Mr. Majors that she had scheduled an abortion in two weeks, he insisted that she do it sooner, she stated within the assertion. Mr. Majors dropped her off on the clinic, the place he was suggested that Ms. Hooper would want an escort residence, she stated. But when she known as him afterward to choose her up, he stated he was heading to a rehearsal. Because she believed that Mr. Majors wouldn’t tolerate her discussing the scenario with anybody, the assertion says, she couldn’t name a pal; she feigned an escort and walked herself residence. “I felt trapped and alone,” she stated later in an interview with The Times.

Ms. Chaudhry stated that as a result of each Mr. Majors and Ms. Hooper have been in the identical present, they agreed they might not each miss the rehearsal, and that she would discover her manner residence after the process. Ms. Hooper stated they weren’t in the identical present on the time.

“That deeply sad event is still a painful memory for Mr. Majors,” Ms. Chaudhry stated.

In 2015, when Ms. Hooper confronted Mr. Majors with proof that he was having an affair, he threatened to kill himself, her assertion says. A yr later, after they’d break up up and Mr. Majors discovered that Ms. Hooper had a quick relationship with somebody he knew, he phoned and berated her, her assertion says, calling her a “whore” and saying, “I hope you die; kill yourself” and “I’m going to rip you out of my heart the way they ripped our baby out of you.”