On Tuesday, the second day of testimony against Danny Masterson, Jane Doe 3 — the “That ’70s Show” star’s ex-long-term girlfriend referred to in court as CB — was hyperventilating and struggling to breathe through the morning session. started fighting. Which turned out to be a full blown panic attack, talking about the impact of Scientology.
CB appeared extremely nervous from the start and his fear was evident in the courtroom, he would often look down and go out of his way to make sure he sat directly on the court with Masterson or his family and Don’t see friends. Masterson spent most of his time staring straight at her.
She is one of four women who will testify that Masterson assaulted her in a criminal case. Masterson, who appeared in court daily with his family and wife Bijou Phillips, has denied all wrongdoing. If found guilty, he could face up to 45 years in prison.
Later in the afternoon, during cross-examination by Philip Cohen, CB asked the defense attorney not to turn to Masterson when he asked her the question.
“When you go to that side of the courtroom, I don’t want to look there,” she said, requesting that he be behind the podium directly in front of him.
CB was a successful model who moved from Alabama to Los Angeles, and was Masterson’s girlfriend for six years from 1999. A non-Scientologist, she met Masterson at the age of 18 and
To be with him became a Scientologist.
The witness testified how she went to the Scientology Center to speak with her ethics officer, Miranda Scoggins, in December 2001, the day she alleged that she was raped by Masterson. Masterson is not being accused of anything in relation to the December 2001 incident, but is
The CB is being accused of forcible rape in an earlier incident that happened a month ago.
During the December 2001 incident, CB testified that she had gone out to dinner with Masterson at La Pobelle Bistro in Hollywood the night before, where she had one to two glasses of red wine. She remembered that she stood to leave the restaurant and then woke up the next morning in her bed with nothing more than, alone, naked, confused, and felt pain all over her body and pain in her anus and rectum.
After checking in the bathroom, he noticed that there was some bleeding. She went downstairs to confront Masterson, asked him what happened, and he replied that they had sex.
Scientology grew once again as his testimony continued. Testifying that Masterson had had anal sex with her, which she believed to be against Scientology’s beliefs, she reported it to Miranda Scoggins and her husband Chris Scoggins, pastor of the Scientology Celebrity Center, the next day.
Miranda Scoggins told her that no offense was committed and she “pulled it off” (a Scientology term meaning that you did something in this life or another life to cause bad things to happen to you).
When asked by the prosecutor what she thought Scoggins was, CB began to hyperventilate, saying, “I understand it almost put me in a state of panic and I just need to do what I told Went and didn’t have to tell anyone.” She also spoke of her fear of being declared an “oppressive person” and being cut off from the church.
Crying, she said that she was worried “it would destroy me… [Chris Scoggins] Scared me so much so I did as I was told… I’m afraid I can’t escape [being declared a suppressive person] That time.”
At the time, CB was barely breathing and Judge Charlene Olmeida called for leave.
Masterson was formally charged in 2020, but the charges first surfaced in 2017 when a blogger covered Scientology informed of Detectives were investigating the actor after three women came out with allegations of rape and assault. The women claim that they came into contact with Masterson through the Church of Scientology in the early 2000s, and have each said they were pressured by the Church to remain silent.
When the testimony resumed, CB’s breathing was still shallow and she spoke through tears about how Miranda Scoggins had written her a knowledge report about her “out of morality” behavior – things she had done wrong. . Through heavy breaths and trying not to cry, she said, “Miranda wanted me to ‘write things that shouldn’t be reported,'” but that wouldn’t be called Masterson.
in an ethics officer.
“I didn’t understand why he wasn’t being called into ethics,” she said.
The witness then testified that Miranda Scoggins helped her write the report, detailing her and Masterson’s relationship and what happened but that she had to remove H, E, and R (human).
emotion and reaction) and could not use the word “rape”.
CB then had to undergo a month-long ethics program, which required her to take courses at the Celebrity Center every day throughout January 2002. He then asked Masterson if he needed to take an ethics course and said that he replied that he did not because “he was fortunately getting rich in life.”
Asked to elaborate, he explained that he had read something called ‘moral protection’ “that when
One’s stats are up in life, they are called upstats.” Based on her answer she said that she was
“Done” with the relationship because according to ‘Ethics Preservation,’ “you basically decide on the relationship – and at the time I told him I was done.”
The witness said that she and Masterson had to meet with Chris Scoggins to go over the terms of their breakup and sign a deal. One of the terms she missed from the agreement was that she could not sue him.
CB testified that she did not tell anyone about the alleged rape until she told her husband around 2010 or 2011, after a year or two of marriage. After doing so, she said she understood that she had been raped, that they hadn’t just had “sex,” as Masterson claimed.
She then contacted a rape hotline, where she changed her mind and was now convinced “a crime had occurred,” which led to her eventually reporting the incidents to the Austin, Texas Police Department, where she was now living.
Asked by the prosecutor how she felt reporting the events, she said, “Frightened because of Scientology. I was scared.”
Asked if he still has fear or anxiety, he said, “Oh yes.” Holding back tears, she said she was harassed and stalked soon after reporting the incidents to the police and that the harassment and stalking continues “to this day”.
Cohen briefly began cross-examination before the session ended for the day. it’s dark on the court
Wednesday; The arguments will continue on Thursday as well.