August 30 saw Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears named in a shocking lawsuit from a brother and sister who alleged they had been groomed and molested by the two when they were children. The sister alleged, per TMZ, that Haddish got her to star in an inappropriately suggestive video when she was a young teenager, while the plaintiff’s brother alleged both Spears and Haddish molested him while filming a Funny or Die video (which Funny or Die has denied having any involvement in). Haddish was apparently a close friend of the plaintiff’s mother for a time.
But Haddish’s lawyer is hitting back. He claimed to People that the plaintiff’s mom had supposedly been making the claims for years, noting, “Every attorney who has initially taken on her case — and there were several — ultimately dropped the matter once it became clear that the claims were meritless and Ms. Haddish would not be shaken down.”
The siblings and their mother spoke in detail about what they alleged happened with Haddish and Spears to Daily Beast, with the mother telling the outlet of her supposed former friend, “I wanted [Tiffany] to see the error of her ways, and I wanted her to do the right thing as far as helping with the therapy, and with the kids and stuff. But the way she just got real Hollywood on us. This was not the same friend that had been a friend to me.”
