'The Final of Us' and 'Vital Position' star Ashley Johnson filed a restraining order towards her ex-boyfriend, saying she's endured 'many acts of terror' over years of abuse

• ‘The Final of Us’ star Ashley Johnson filed a restraining order towards ex-boyfriend Brian Wayne Foster. 
• Johnson says in authorized papers that she and her household have endured “many acts of terror” over years of abuse. 
• Johnson mentioned she and her household are fearful that Foster “is near the sting” and “has the power to homicide.”

“The Final of Us” and “Vital Position” star Ashley Johnson has filed a restraining order towards ex-boyfriend Brian Wayne Foster, alleging that he violated an emergency order of safety after she endured “many acts of terror” from him over years of abuse. 

The request for a restraining order, filed final Friday within the Los Angeles superior court docket and first reported by The Blast, accuses Foster of abuse and threats towards Johnson in addition to her household and two canine, with Johnson writing that she and members of the family “have been the topic of his outbursts, drug use, threats, and sexual assaults.” 

Johnson — a famed voice actor who originated the function of Ellie within the hit video-game-turned-HBO-hit “The Final of Us” — requested safety towards Foster for herself and her household as a result of they’re “fearful that he’s near the sting, has the power to homicide, and can trigger hurt” to them. 

Her request for a restraining order alleged that Foster is “mentally unstable, in a continuing mind-set alteration, and appears to be having psychological atrophy, elevated paranoia, and incapability to tell apart actuality.”

The court docket listed no lawyer for Foster and most of his social media accounts are offline. Insider did not get instantly get a response from his enterprise e-mail, TikTok, Discord, or Instagram accounts. 

The petition particulars what Johnson calls “numerous” cases of Foster’s abuse. Johnson alleges Foster slammed doorways, broke glasses, and referred to as Johnson a “fucking bitch” and “fucking cunt.”

In keeping with the court docket submitting, Johnson and Foster broke up on March 25, 2023, after Johnson had tried to finish the connection for over two years.

Johnson says the 2 had an argument weeks after their breakup that prompted Foster to start “carrying about an ammo case and a big black bag.”

After Los Angeles police escorted Foster out of Johnson’s home on Might 15, 2023, Johnson says she went via the bag and located a garotte and two airsoft weapons. 

The restraining order request says Johnson acquired an emergency safety order towards Foster that day after he “tried to extort $150,000” from her. The order of safety was additionally primarily based on his “historical past of verbal abuse” and “very unhinged thoughts,” the request says.

Foster then violated that order by altering the passwords to dam her entry to the safety cameras round her home, Johnson says in her restraining order request.

Johnson’s legal professionals and illustration didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark. 

A choose granted a short lived restraining order towards Foster and set a listening to for June 9 to debate a full restraining order.

Johnson’s lawyer mentioned in court docket filings that no discover of the restraining order was given as a result of worry of violence from Foster and a priority he’d “change into evasive.” 

The 2 labored collectively on ‘Vital Position’

Along with her starring function in “The Final of Us” online game, Johnson appeared as a visitor star within the HBO adaptation.

Johnson can also be well-known for her appearances as a solid member on the favored “Dungeons and Dragons” livestream collection “Vital Position,” and reprised her character Pike in Amazon’s animated adaptation of the present, “The Legend of Vox Machina.”

Foster himself hosted “Talks Machina,” a spin-off discuss present affiliated with the Vital Position stream, for a number of years. In the course of the present, he would chat with solid members, together with Johnson, concerning the crew’s “Dungeons and Dragons” recreation, and sometimes finish the stream along with his tagline: “Creepy ain’t a criminal offense.”

A minimum of 93 hour-long episodes of “Talks Machina” hosted by Foster have aired on the Vital Position Twitch channel, and at press time, they haven’t been eliminated.

Foster and Vital Position parted ways in August 2021. Vital Position wrote on the time to “thank him for his creativity and contributions to CR through the years.”

Foster has not mentioned a lot about why he was axed from the corporate’s expertise lineup, and in late 2021 mentioned that he was “simply making an attempt to maintain it cool” and stopped doing the present for causes outdoors his management.

In a message on his Discord server in late April of this yr — weeks earlier than the emergency protecting order was filed — Foster wrote that he would take a pause from streaming since he began taking new medicine as a part of a “medical/psychological well being journey.”

Foster did not reply to the allegations, however a moderator on the discussion board wrote on Tuesday: “We’ve seen the article relating to Brian and Ashley, and we acknowledge how severe the allegations are. If there’s something to be mentioned, we will probably be updating you right here within the bulletins channel. Till then, please don’t speculate or unfold misinformation.”