The Final of Us megastar Ashley Johnson has filed a lawsuit in opposition to Brian Foster, her ex-boyfriend and a former fellow member of the DnD internet collection Vital Function, alleging bodily and sexual violence, in addition to psychological and emotional abuse.

The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Awesome Courtroom on Tuesday, includes a general of six named feminine plaintiffs, together with Johnson, and one anonymized feminine plaintiff. The grievance accuses Foster of home violence, sexual battery, attack, stalking, civil rights violations, gender violence and the intentional infliction of emotional misery. The allegations stem from conduct over the past decade and cite Foster’s “continual abuse of gear and alcohol” as gas for a “aggravating trend and follow of chilling and wicked conduct against girls.”

“Foster has left a path of sufferers whose lives he sought to keep watch over via quite a lot of lies, threats, intimidation and manipulation,” the grievance alleges.

Johnson in particular is alleging that Foster threatened to extort her, telling Johnson he would liberate “non-public data” about her except she paid him $150,000. The grievance additionally comprises claims that Foster bodily intimidated Johnson through punching via glass, throwing gadgets and screaming obscenities in her face — conduct that left the actress “below consistent duress for years.”

In step with the swimsuit, their courting started in 2012, with Foster transferring into Johnson’s rental and his competitive conduct and ingesting escalating as their courting improved.

The lawsuit states Johnson and Foster broke up in 2023, however that following the break up, he started sporting round a black duffel bag and ammo case, which contained “two airsoft weapons changed to seem as actual weapons and a garotte which is a strangulation instrument.”

Foster additionally left Johnson’s house below an emergency protecting order after he allegedly “commandeered Johnson’s house safety cameras and microphones to watch her and monitor her comings and goings.” Following their break-up, Foster allegedly posted an image of Johnson’s canine to Instagram and tagged the photograph’s location as “Robert Blake Lawn’s,” prompting her to touch the police. (Blake used to be an actor acquitted of his spouse’s homicide in a felony trial despite the fact that used to be later held responsible for her demise in civil courtroom.)

Johnson’s sister, Haylie Langseth — who may be a named plaintiff within the swimsuit — is claiming Foster made “wildly beside the point and undesirable sexual feedback” to and about her, and groped her in entrance of her kids and sister. The grievance accuses Foster of cultivating an atmosphere of concern that made Langseth imagine he would inflict extra hurt on Johnson if she reported him.

The grievance alleges that the verbal harassment and groping prolonged past Langseth to different girls, together with subordinates at Vital Function, the place he abused his place and “famous person” to achieve get right of entry to to his alleged sufferers.

Foster used to be now not simply at one level a member of the Vital Function internet collection ensemble, which is in the back of High Video’s animated adaptation Legend of Vox Machina, but additionally hosted their on-line communicate displays like Talks Machina. The swimsuit alleges he used to be fired from the corporate in August 2021 and others for, amongst many stuff, attacking critics of the display on social media and prompting his fans to bother the critics.

In a remark to ComicBook.com, a spokesperson for Vital Function instructed the opening that the corporate is acutely aware of the civil grievance and denied wisdom of his conduct.

“We’re acutely aware of the civil grievance that comes with aggravating information about the conduct of considered one of our ex-employees, Brian W. Foster. Whilst we will’t get into the specifics of the lawsuit, we wish to make it transparent that we had no wisdom of any of his conduct,” the remark reads. “It’s heartbreaking to us that a few of our colleagues went via this, and we’re dedicated to supporting them then again we will. We’re running with our HR staff and our personnel immediately to make sure our administrative center and tradition reside as much as all of our expectancies.”

The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Vital Function for remark.