This morning Taylor Swift took the stand to testify over an alleged groping incident at a meet-and-greet back in June 2013. She accused former KYGO morning-show DJ David Mueller of grabbing her bare ass while posing for a photo with her and his then girlfriend, Shannon Melcher. The ass grabbing, which resulted in Mueller getting fired, happened back stage before her Red Tour concert.
Once the head of the radio station heard about the allegations he fired Mueller fearing the backlash from the incident might cause the station some unwanted flak.
Mueller is claiming that their interaction was just them "jostling" for a photo and suggested the possibility that she had misidentified Mueller.
Mueller sued Swift, her mother, Andrea Swift, and Swift's radio coordinator, Frank Bell, for roughly $3 million in damages mainly due to his lost wages and now tainted reputation. Taylor Swift can easily afford to settle this whole thing and move on, but she can also afford the legal fees to counter-sue Mueller for being a swinish opportunist who thought it would be funny to grab her bare ass cheek and tell all his friends about that one time he grabbed Taylor Swift's bare ass cheek, so that's what she's decided to do. And now he's trying to weasel money out of her after things went in a direction he didn't expect, so she answers by counter-sueing him for $1 like a great big "HEY. FUCK YOU DUDE" and it's my favorite thing on the internet right now.
Swift countersued for sexual assault because Mueller did NOT allegedly grab her bare ass, but rather actually grabbed a handful of her ass for real. As if that's not enough to rile some solidarity from women everywhere who are sick and tired of douchebags like him getting away with shit like this she is earning a whole lot of respect for court room comments like this:
"I'm not going to allow you or your client to make me feel in any way that this is my fault, because it isn't," she said.
"I am being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are a product of his decisions and not mine," Swift added later.
Looking at the photo, McFarland (Mueller's attorney) asked Swift why the front of her skirt did not appear to be lifted.
"Because my ass is located in the back of my body," Swift said.
McFarland also noted that Swift was closer to Melcher than Mueller in the photo.
"Yes, she did not have her hand on my ass," Swift replied.
Touche...
