Taylor Swift Takes To The Stand In Her Sexual Assault Court Case

Music star Taylor Swift insisted during an hour of testimony Thursday that a Denver disc jockey grabbed her bare backside and held on for a long time during a concert. The pop star didn’t sugar coat her language in what she termed a sexual assault when she posed for a picture with David Mueller in 2013. She said, “He stayed attached to my bare ass-cheek as I lurched away from him,” Swift testified in federal court during a trial over dueling lawsuits in the case. “It was a definite grab. A very long grab,” she said at one point.
The singer used the word “ass” dozens of times on the witness stand, sometimes sarcastically, in her testy exchange with Mueller’s attorney that occasionally elicited chuckles — even from the eight-member jury. The courtroom’s atmosphere lightened up as people in the courtroom laughed when she said her security guard, Greg Dent, saw Mueller “lift my skirt” but someone would have had to have been underneath her to see the actual groping — “and we didn’t have anyone positioned there.” Mueller, who looked distressed stared at a table while the singer-songwriter testified. He however denied the claims in the lawsuit saying that he was falsely accused and had lost his job on that account.