Seth Sabal was previously accused by three anonymous models. Now the wife of Topher Grace is going public with her own allegations.
and actress Ashley Grace posted a simple Instagram story: a leafy green tree shining in the sun, a clear blue sky behind it. Over the top, in black-and-white typewriter font, she wrote, “To every rape victim that is retraumatized by watching society debate and focus their attention on what is going to happen to the RAPIST, I see you.” She finished it with a heart emoji.
“Everything I was afraid of does not hold the weight it did when I was ,” she told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview. “He no longer holds any power over me.”Grace grew up in Indiana, a church-going teen pageant queen and high school theater star. As a teenager, someone suggested she try modeling, and she signed with a small agency in Chicago.
At the second shoot in August 2008, Grace says, Sabal asked her to work with him again, but without the involvement of her agency. She says she pushed back but he insisted, claiming it was “a hassle to go through her agents that he did not have time,” according to the lawsuit. Eager for more exposure and hurting for money, she acquiesced.About a week later, Grace, then 19, returned to Sabal’s Tribeca studio, which doubled as his apartment.
Leaving the apartment afterward, Grace says, she stopped to think about how hideous the building’s door looked. Then she walked home, sat on the floor of the shower, and cried.“If I could wave a wand, I would walk out of the apartment, I’d walk into the next bodega and ask to call the police,” she said. “That is what I wish I could get that back: the opportunity to ensure that he could not do that to somebody else.
“Once I realized that somebody could be in this much pain and something might actually be able to help, it was the only meaningful thing I could think of doing with my life,” she said. “A light bulb clicked. I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t realized until that moment that this person holds no power over me anymore.”Grace said she had hoped up until this point that she had been an outlier; that there was something unique about her that caused Sabal to target her. When she read thearticle, she realized she was wrong.
Grace says she offered counseling and support, but whenever she informed the students of their legal rights, they insisted they did not want to pursue them. She was frustrated but sympathetic; after all, she had not reported Sabal for many of the reasons her students were offering now.
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