In June 2018, Sil Lai Abrams came forward with her sexual assault claims against Extra host A.J. Calloway, becoming the first woman to do so.
A.J. responded to the allegations with the following statement: "I was disappointed to read the false allegations about me in The Hollywood Reporter. As I have maintained from the beginning, these allegations are not true. When I was first notified about these allegations by law enforcement more than a decade ago, I fully cooperated from the beginning and the case was dismissed."
The Daily Beast has now published a new article where two more women have come forward to accuse A.J. of similar inappropriate acts. Both women have chosen to remain anonymous with fear of what could happen, detailing how "A.J. is someone" who would effect their future if he knew their identities at this time.
The first woman who goes by "Talia" detailed how she went on a date with A.J. after he endlessly kept pursuing her. After dinner, they ended up at his place with a group of friends and although she was kissing him, she knew she didn't want to do anything more.
“He’s heavy, you know, and he put his whole body weight on top of me. He kept trying to open my blouse. He really was going for my skirt, and I was literally pulling my skirt down because I was not going to allow him to go any further," she said. "And he thought it was a game or something because he kept laughing and giggling and I’m like, no, stop, stop. And the more I said stop the more he got aggressive, and that’s when I started to realize, oh my God, this is serious. Like, he’s really going to try and force me to have sex with him.”
After fighting to keep A.J. off of her, she said he eventually got tired. “And I just remember him pulling his penis out and he began stroking himself and he kept trying to put my hand on his penis and eventually he ejaculated on my hands.”
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