“The Last of Us” star Ashley Johnson claims she was left in fear of her “sociopath” ex-fiancé Brian Wayne Foster after he was found in possession of two airsoft guns and allegedly tracked her home security cameras, Pvnew can reveal.
Johnson, 40, and six other women — including her sister — launched a civil suit against Foster in Los Angeles Tuesday, accusing him of domestic violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, sexual battery and assault and stalking.
The actress, who plays Anna Williams in the hit HBO series, got an emergency protective order against Foster in May after he allegedly attempted to extort $150,000 from her.
Bryan Freedman, the attorney for Johnson and the other woman, told Pvnew: “The police officer who reviewed the evidence was so concerned for Ashley Johnson’s safety that he went on his own to a judge to get an immediate emergency protective order against Brian W. Foster.”
Foster previously denied the allegations from the May emergency protective order, which ended last month. A judge denied the “Growing Pains” alum’s appeal for a restraining order.
Now a new civil suit, seen by Pvnew, brought by Johnson and six others has brought the case back to court. It reads: “Foster’s threats to extort Johnson by releasing personal information as well as his consistent acts of physical intimidation including but not limited to punching through glass, throwing objects, and screaming obscenities in her face, have left Johnson scared, intimidated, off-balance, confused, traumatized, and under constant duress for years.”
The court documents also claim that “Johnson has good reason to believe that Foster would act on his threats or harm her if she were to provoke him or fail to succumb to his will because after breaking up in March 2023, Foster began suspiciously carrying around a large black duffel bag and an ammo case containing two airsoft guns modified to appear as real guns and a garotte which is a strangulation device.”
The lawsuit claims that “After Foster was forced to leave Johnson’s house by the police due to an Emergency Protective Order, Foster commandeered Johnson’s home security cameras and microphones to monitor her and track her comings and goings.”
Foster, 40, was the host of “Talks Machina,” a weekly YouTube talk show where he discussed the events of the Dungeons & Dragons web series “Critical Role.”
He has since left the show and, after Johnson’s protective order was made public, his presence was completely scrubbed from the “Critical Role” YouTube channel.
The civil suit claims that Foster — “fueled by drugs and alcohol” — made “wildly inappropriate and unwanted sexual comments” to Johnson’s sister Haylie Langseth and groped her in front of her children.
Foster’s abuse also allegedly extends to women whom “he lied to and groomed while still in a relationship with Johnson,” according to the suit, which claims he used his celebrity as power.
He lied to women that he and Johnson were in an open relationship “to coax them into submitting to his inappropriate sexual advances,” the suit claims. “Being the sociopath that he is, Foster often treated these women as sexual objects freely groping them without consent, sometimes in openly public settings. Any woman who refused to submit to his will or who confronted him for any reason was met with a wrath of obscenities, intimidation, and threats.”
Another woman known as “Jane Doe,” alleges in the same suit that in 2019, Foster – “reeking of booze”…”audaciously and repeatedly groped” her. He then “forcibly attempted to stick his hands down her pants to touch her vagina. Jane Doe fought his public sexual advances and pleaded with him to stop numerous times.”
Some months later — after Foster and Doe stopped communicating — Foster allegedly sent her sexually violent messages such as “I haven’t seen you in a while but I can’t wait to shove my c–k in your ass.”
Adrienne Cho, who worked for “Critical Role” as a Product Design and Development Manager around April 2019 while Foster was a producer, claims in the suit that Foster harassed her and groped her groin while sitting next to her at an event in February 2020.
“Cho sat in the audience stunned and horrified by Foster’s conduct,” the suit claims.
“Unfortunately, Foster continued to grope her for the entire length of the event which was well over an hour. Cho was afraid to come forward with Foster’s misconduct because of his reputation as a threatening and intimidating bully.”
Danielle Carr, a producer at “Critical Role,” claims that Foster talked about wanting to have sex with her and touch her breasts. The suit alleges: “He explicitly and repeatedly told Carr, ‘I want to bend you over the couch.’”
He allegedly demanded topless photos of her. “Due to the manipulation by and fear of Foster, Carr felt she had no other choice but to reluctantly comply with his demands. In response, Foster sent Carr an unsolicited naked picture of himself wearing only a trench coat,” the suit alleges.
During a Starbucks run in 2019, Foster demanded Carr pull over. “Foster instructed Carr to pull her top up and instantaneously reached over and groped her breast. Foster then proceeded to lean over and lick her breast. When Carr told Foster to stop, he “laughed,” the suit alleges.
In May 2021, Foster allegedly invited Carr to Johnson’s home to watch the filming on a show they were working on together, then tried to massage and grope her.
A fifth woman, Whitney McKeil, also claims that Foster groped her buttocks at a 2021 he attended WITH Johnson, while another, Maude Garrett, alleges she kissed Foster after he told her he was in an open relationship. When she confronted him two months later, he launched a tirade of abuse at her and grabbed a glass as if to throw it at her, the suit alleges.
Pvnew has reached out to Foster for comment.
Responding to Johnson’s May court filing, Foster said in court documents: “The real loss for me is the inspiration my story has been to people all over the world who know about my journey through recovery from the use of heroin, alcohol, and other substances I used to self-medicate, and who have been inspired by my stories, my music, and my writing to quit or get help.
“Because of these filings, many of the people I hold dear to me now believe me to be relapsed and an abuser.”
Foster also noted that he had already “been forcibly removed from our shared residence, and obtained my possessions.”
