Comedians Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears are denying child sexual abuse claims made in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
The plaintiff’s mother, Trizah Morris, "has been trying to assert these bogus claims against Ms. Haddish for several years," the actress’ lawyer Andrew Brettler said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "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. Now, Ms. Morris has her adult daughter representing herself in this lawsuit. The two of them will together face the consequences of pursuing this frivolous action."
Spears’ attorney told the New York Post: "He isn’t going to fall for any shakedown."
A 22-year-old woman named only as "Jane Doe" in the lawsuit claims in the filing that Haddish and Spears convinced her when she was 14 and her then-7-year-old brother, known as "John Doe," to film sexually suggestive video sketches starting in 2013, including one called "Through a Pedophiles Eyes" that was allegedly uploaded to "Funny or Die" before being removed in 2018.
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In the sketch, Haddish allegedly played the boy’s mother and Spears portrayed a pedophile.
Funny or Die said it immediately removed the video after it became aware of it.
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