Jonathan Majors’ tearful ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari felt “worried” and like it was “my fault” after the actor got arrested for allegedly attacking her in a car service — but “he knows” he hit her, she told jurors at his Manhattan trial Wednesday.
“He knows what he’s done: He’s cheated on me, he’s attacked me,” Jabbari, 30, said on the stand, 20 feet away from Majors in Manhattan Criminal Court, where he is on trial on misdemeanor assault and harassment charges.
The British dancer and movement coach testified in the packed courtroom that at first, she felt she should have “lied” by taking the blame for the March altercation — because she still loved Majors and was concerned he would be “upset” with her.
“I felt like I should have lied and said that nothing happened so that he wasn’t in trouble,” Jabbari said when asked to describe how she felt after learning the 34-year-old Marvel star had been arrested while she was at the hospital getting a splint put on her broken finger.
“I just wanted to fix it,” Jabbari, who wore an olive suit and white shirt, added through her tears.
“I felt worried about him….I don’t know. I just felt really sad,” she added. “I thought it was my fault, you know?”
The case centers around the March 25 incident that erupted after Jabbari discovered evidence of the actor’s infidelity as the couple were being driven across the Manhattan Bridge in a black SUV.
Majors has pleaded not guilty to the charges and maintained that Jabbari was the aggressor in the encounter.
Jabbari testified Tuesday that Majors delivered a “hard blow across my head,” opening up a gash on her ear during the altercation.
The morning after, police officers discovered her lying half-naked inside Majors’ Chelsea apartment.
Jabbari said that she struggled to explain the truth to the cops — because she could hear the “Loki” star, who had called 911, in the next room.
Instead, she “alluded” to the attack, realizing that “this was the moment where I could have a little help,” she testified Wednesday.
“I wanted to say, ‘Help me, please,” she added from the stand.
Jabbari, who is white, also testified Wednesday that she did not report Majors’ alleged past violent episodes — which she detailed in her first day of testimony Tuesday — to authorities because he had spoken to her in the past about “not trusting police” and “what they would do to me as a black man.”
Majors’ defense attorney, Priya Chaudhry, has argued that the entire case hinges on Jabbari’s credibility.
During Wednesday’s cross-examination, Chaudhry asked Jabbari how many alcoholic drinks she had on the night of the alleged assault — and implied that Jabbari had tried to hide the extent of her intoxication from Majors.
Jabbari has previously testified that she had dinner with Majors that night in Brooklyn at Fort Greene Japanese restaurant Karasu after seeing a play at the nearby Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Chaudhry asked Jabbari whether she recalled Majors going to the bathroom before the pair left the eatery.
After she said yes, the attorney then asked whether she remembered returning to the table and downing the rest of a cocktail — before “stashing” the glass so that Majors did not see it.
“I don’t remember,” Jabbari responded.
Jabbari later testified that, over several hours, she had two drinks at the theatre, around three drinks at the restaurant, and then some champagne and one or two shots of tequila at a dance club she visited with strangers who offered to take her out dancing after she told them her boyfriend had cheated on her.
But she flatly denied Chaudhry’s insinuation that her drinking had been a “source of tension” in her relationship with Majors.
“He would get upset at me and use drinking as an excuse, I believe,” she testified.
Jabbari is set to continue being cross examined Thursday morning.