Content material warning: This story accommodates descriptions of home and sexual abuse.
The Final of Us Ellie actor Ashley Johnson has filed a home violence order alleging that her ex-boyfriend Brian Foster, who additionally co-starred with Johnson on the net sequence Important Position, is “mentally unstable” and has the “potential to homicide.” In courtroom paperwork seen and detailed right here by PCGamesN, The Final of Us actor claims that Foster has a historical past of “verbal abuse,” and that she has beforehand vacated her dwelling resulting from being “terrified.”
Johnson, who voices Ellie in TLOU and in addition seems within the recreation’s HBO adaptation, says that she separated from Foster in March, and now seeks a restraining order in opposition to him owing partly to his “outbursts, drug use, threats, and sexual assaults.”
In paperwork filed in Los Angeles County Courts, and signed by Johnson, the actor claims that Foster tried to extort cash from her, and that she later found a “strangulation gadget” amongst her possessions.
“On Might 15, 2023, the police issued an EPO [Emergency Protection Order] resulting from respondent’s [Foster’s] having tried to extort $150,000 from me, his historical past of verbal abuse, his very unhinged thoughts from his addictive use of narcotics, and a number of other different causes. We had damaged up on March 25, 2023 after my having tried to take action for two.5 years.
“On April 20, 2023, we had an argument and after that argument he started carrying about an ammo case and a big black bag. Upon his vacating my home on the night of Might 15, within the presence of LAPD, he didn’t take his ammo case and bag with him. I instantly opened it up and located a garotte, which is a strangulation gadget, and two Airsoft weapons.”
Johnson additionally claims that Foster blocked her web entry on all her gadgets, and that her mom, household, and mates contacted her “out of concern for my life.” Johnson says that “through the years, [Foster] broke glasses, broke gate and slamming doorways [sic].” The actor additionally says that Foster “known as me silly, ineffective f***ing b***h, f***ing c***.”
Johnson additionally describes an incident whereby Foster posted to Instagram {a photograph} of Johnson’s two pet canines, taken in Johnson’s yard. The {photograph}, which is shared as a part of the courtroom submitting, is tagged ‘Robert Blake Backyard.’
Robert Blake was an American actor arrested, tried, and acquitted for the homicide of his spouse Bonny Lee Bakley. Blake was later discovered liable in civil courtroom for Bakley’s wrongful demise. Within the submitting, Johnson alleges Foster is “ nicely conscious of this being a reference to frighten me.”
“Respondent [Foster] posted a photograph that contained my two beloved canines and in my yard and made the remark ‘Robert Blake Backyard,” Johnson says. “My mother’s finest pal held Bonny Lee Blake whereas she was dying, and respondent is nicely conscious of this being a reference to frighten me.”
Johnson claims that Foster is “mentally unstable, in a relentless way of thinking alteration, and appears to be having psychological atrophy, elevated paranoia, and incapability to differentiate actuality.”
“My members of the family have been the topic of his outbursts, drug use, threats, and sexual assaults,” Johnson alleges. “They’re fearful that he’s near the sting, has the power to homicide, and can trigger hurt not solely to me however to them.”
As initially reported in a narrative from The Blast, Johnson submitted the submitting on Might 19. PCGamesN has contacted representatives for each Johnson and Foster and can replace this story with any additional info.
