In June of last year, Extra host A.J. Calloway was accused of sexual assault by activist Sil Lai Abrams, who told her story to The Hollywood Reporter. He subsequently denied the allegations just days later, saying at the time, "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." Now Daily Beast reports that two more women have accused him of assault.
Both of the women who have opened up to Daily Beast about their experiences wish to remain anonymous, with one of them explaining that she's "terrified about coming forward." She added further, "I don’t want it to affect my future, everything that I’ve worked hard for—and A.J. is someone that would try to do that." She explained that she first started talking with Calloway back in 2011, and he eventually asked her out to dinner.
“He wanted to take me out to dinner and I kept telling him no, I wouldn’t entertain his advances," she said. "After him asking me out repeatedly I agreed to go, because it got to a point where he started to get upset that I was actually not willing to go out with him. He was kind of like, do you know who I am?" She later went to his house for a party after going on a date with him, and when the guests left they started making out.
"I knew adamantly I wasn’t having sex because I won’t have sex unless I’m in a committed relationship," she said of her night with Calloway. "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. 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."
She explained that this went on for "40 minutes straight," before he got tired and gave up. "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." She never opened up about the incident until now because she said she didn't think people would believe her. "I thought it's just one of those situations that happen and you just have to move forward with your life."
Responding to the allegations about Calloway, his lawyer Lisa E. Davis said, "We cannot comment on vague secondhand allegations beyond that Mr. Calloway firmly denies any claim that he assaulted someone." Read the full report here.
