In an exclusive conversation with Variety, the woman who was assaulted by Ezra Miller in 2020 has broken her silence. The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous out of concern for her privacy, was placed in a chokehold and pushed to the ground by the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them actor outside a Reykjavík bar.
A viral video of the April 2020 incident shows Miller, who uses they/them pronouns, confronting the woman outside Prikið Kaffihús in the Icelandic capitol. "Do you want to fight? Is that what you do?" Miller then places the woman in a chokehold, causing her to let out an audible gasp before they push her to the ground. The video ends as the person filming stops to intervene in the altercation.
According to the woman, she had been talking to Miller inside the bar when she asked about wounds around the actor's feet. They explained that the wounds were battle scars and described how they got them; as the woman walked away, she joked, "But just so you know, I could take you in a fight."
The actor, best known for playing DC superhero The Flash in several films, asked if she really wanted to fight.
She recalls how she jokingly told them to meet her in the smoking area in two minutes. Her initial interactions with Miller felt like they shared a "barbed-but-easygoing" personality, so she didn't think twice about the exchange.
"I think it's just fun and games—" she said. Miller eventually confronted her outside the bar; the woman can be seen smiling and waving at them in the moments before the assault. "—But then it wasn't."
"All of a sudden, [they're] on top of me, choking me, still screaming in my face if I want to fight. My friend who's filming sees [they're] obviously not joking and it's actually serious, so he stops filming, and pushes [them] off me as [they're] still trying to fight me. Two guy friends of mine are actually holding [Miller] back as [they're] screaming, 'This is what you wanted! This is what you wanted!'"
(Variety notes that it was unclear whether the woman was aware Miller identifies as non-binary at the time of the interview)
'I Did Not Feel Safe:' Miller Assaults German Woman Two Years After Consensual Encounter
As the woman assaulted in Iceland speaks out, another one of Miller's victims is coming forward.
A woman, who asked to be referred to only as Nadia had a consensual sexual encounter with Miller, in January 2020 after the two met at an art opening in Los Angeles. At the time, there were no red flags in sight—"They were super caring, super nice. I had no reason to suspect anything bad was ever going to happen with them," she told Variety.
When Nadia saw the viral video of Miller choking the woman in Iceland a few months after they met, she called them, just to be reassured it was a misunderstanding. "In the video, it's true that the girl is smiling, so I thought, 'OK, I guess it was taken out of context and they were just playing around.' I just let it go."
The two remained in contact via text. Nadia, who had been visiting Los Angeles from Germany, returned home and the two didn't see each other again until February 2022.
The actor was in her home city of Berlin and reached out, leading Nadia to invite Miller over to her apartment. "When they arrived, they were super nice, super polite, asking me if they could come in," she said. Miller continued to be initially respectful until she told them they couldn't smoke inside, their demeanor changing instantly.
"They started with 'I'm a maker of planets. Tobacco is sacred,'" Nadia said, quoting Miller word for word. She recounted the actor's "tirade," in which they insisted they could do whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted and attempted to command her like a dog.
When asked to leave, Miller accused Nadia of being a transphobe and Nazi. Nadia reminded them that she was a descendant of Holocaust survivors (a fact they were previously aware of); Miller began screaming about people in their family who had died and how they were being triggered as a rape survivor.
Miller went on to terrorize Nadia until nearly 6 a.m., stalking around her apartment, attempting to break down the door, and screaming that she had stolen their passport and money. Once Nadia tossed down Miller's jacket, which they had left behind, from her balcony.
"I did not feel safe."
Nadia claims that she has not seen Miller since that night and has blocked their number on her phone.
Representatives for Miller have had no comment about these allegations, but a source close to the situation told Variety that Miller hopes to address the allegations at some point but has chosen to privately focus on their health and healing over the coming months.