Former KYGO radio host David Mueller claims he was fired from his job after Taylor Swift falsely accused him of groping her at a meet-and-greet in 2013. The former DJ, filed a lawsuit against Swift two years later and is now amending the complaint in his lawsuit to include slander.
According to the original lawsuit, Mueller and his girlfriend Shannon Melcher attended a meet-and-greet at Denver’s Pepsi Center in June 2013 where they met and took a photo with Swift. Later that night, the couple was approached by Swift’s security team and escorted out of the premise after Mueller was accused of touching Swift inappropriately.
The new papers filed in federal court in Colorado state that Swift and others “orally published and/or caused to be published to third parties multiple statements that Plaintiff Mueller lifted Taylor Swift‘s skirt and grabbed her bottom during a photo session.”
Mueller has denied any wrongdoing and claims he has met “hundreds” of celebrities without incident over the years.
“The contention that Mr. Mueller lifted up Ms. Swift’s skirt and grabbed her bottom, while standing with his girlfriend, in front of Ms. Swift’s photographer and Ms. Swift’s highly trained security personnel, during a company-sponsored, VIP, backstage meet-and-greet, is nonsense,” wrote Mueller’s attorney M. Gabriel McFarland in the amended complaint.
In October, Swift countersued for assault and battery seeking damages arising from the incident. “Resolution of this Counterclaim will demonstrate that Mueller alone was the perpetrator of the humiliating and wrongful conduct targeted against Ms. Swift,” read court documents. “And will serve as an example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts.”
