last week Tyler Perryactor and internationally known for his friendship with Meghan Markle and Oprah Winfrey, was facing her second sexual harassment complaint in a year. The actor Mario Rodriguezwho participated in the film ‘Boo! HAS … Madea Halloween’, in which the accused starred in 2016, claims to have been the victim of unwanted advances and even touched his private parts in an embrace.
In a complaint filed in Los Angeles Supreme Court, Mario Rodriguez claims that over the years, Tyler Perry repeatedly assaulted him in his home. She accuses him of sexual harassment and touching without consent, as well as intentionally causing emotional distress. Not only that, but it includes Lionsgate, the film’s distributor, for allegedly ignoring Tyler Perry’s actions.
One of the moments reportedly occurred in Tyler Perry’s private cinema, during which the actor allegedly put his hand on the performer’s leg and began moving it next to his penis. Some actions, which may even have taken place in the mansion that Perry left to Meghan and Harry when they moved to Los Angeles, for which Rodriguez is demanding at least $77 million in compensation.
Mario Rodriguez also adds that in 2019 they stopped having contact, but Tyler Perry continued to write to him from time to time. And that includes that the complaint that Derek Dixon filed last summer against the actor, this is what pushed him to follow the same legal path.
He defends himself with messages
But faced with these accusations, Tyler Perry’s lawyer responded by claiming that the same lawyer who handled the Derek Dixon case, which they have already called a hoax, is leading this campaign with the intention of making money. And not content with that, they sent TMZ the alleged messages exchanged between the actor and Mario Rodriguez before the latter filed a complaint. In these conversations, asks interpreter and friend of Meghan Markle for moneyexplaining that he has health problems and does not have health insurance.
In the captures, it is observed that the two had a long conversation, during which Mario Rodríguez comments on his fear of suffering from sepsis. We also see that before his name, Tyler Perry placed a banned or blocked emoji. However, we read that before things went bad between them The relationship was close and loving. by both parties.
“You just need to know that I love you and I thank you for everything. I really like you. “You helped me get out of many bad times and I want to thank you,” he says in one of the messages, screenshots of which were published by the aforementioned American tabloid. To which Tyler Perry responds: “Happy Thanksgiving, my friend, yes, you had a bad time. I’m glad you’re feeling better. You don’t have to give me anything or pay me anything. “I’m just glad you’re okay.”