Chris Brown describes dog attack on maid in his own words: ‘I’m not bad’

While Chris Brown Fast approaching a February trial in the case of a domestic worker who was attacked by a security dog ​​in her Los Angeles home five years ago, the singer is sharing his detailed description of the incident, in his own words, for the first time.

Brown36, filed excerpts from her April deposition in the civil case as part of her new request that the judge dismiss the employee’s allegations of intentional infliction of emotional distress and punitive damages from her lawsuit. The description of Brown contrasts sharply with the maid’s own harrowing account of what happened.

In her file and related records, the domestic worker Maria Avila says he was taking out the trash from the house Brown on December 12, 2020, when a large brown dog “violently” attacked her, tearing chunks of flesh and even bone from her face and arm as she “screamed in terror and asked for help.” Avila claims that Brown left the house, stood over it while talking on the cell phone, and then “fled the scene while [ela] She was lying at the entrance in a pool of blood, bleeding to death.” (Avila says he needed emergency surgery and now lives with extensive disfigurement, nerve damage and vision loss.)

For years, Brown has been fighting the lawsuit and a related complaint from Avila, Patriciawho was also at the house that day and allegedly ran outside to find her sister “covered in blood as she screamed and cried for help.” In excerpts from the testimony of Brown of April filed in court on Monday, 2, Brown says he didn’t hear screams, didn’t see blood, at least initially, and only left the house because his manager advised him to do so once it became clear that paramedics were on the way.

Asked how the terrifying incident unfolded, Brown said he was in his room upstairs when he heard the dog, called Hadesgrowling outside. “Hearing the growl was what really shocked me into running down the stairs,” he replied. Brown he said that when he arrived at the garage entrance, he found the employee “face down” on the floor.

“I didn’t touch her. I bent down and looked. I was — I was making sure she was breathing and then from there I ran and got the dogs inside and screamed and told security to come,” Brown testified under oath. When asked how he could be sure that Avila was breathing, Brown Said it was clear. “I could see her chest moving,” he said.

When asked if he could remember saying anything to Avila, Brown He said he didn’t talk to her. “No. Because she was — she was unconscious. There was no communication,” he testified. “I called security to make sure she was OK.”

Brown said that after rounding up his three dogs, including Hadeswho was acting “nervous,” called his manager while his security guard was allegedly on the phone with a 911 dispatcher.

“Mr. Wilson Told you to get out of there, right?” asked the lawyer Avilato which Brown he replied: “yes, ma’am”. The lawyer then asked if Brown he felt “bad” for leaving his home under those circumstances.

“I’m not bad — I’m not feeling bad about leaving the house, more worried about — her, making sure she’s okay,” he replied. Brown remembered that his sister Avila was outside at the time, and that someone, possibly his sister, brought a towel to him. Avila. He said that Avila it was flipped when he left, although he wasn’t sure how she ended up in the new position.

“I didn’t see blood initially. I think I saw some blood. I was kind of squeamish about blood, so like, I think when — once I saw that she had — there was blood somewhere, I kind of — kind of didn’t look at it completely. I didn’t want — I didn’t want to see the damage or whatever had happened,” he testified. Brown he said he could not remember if the blood he saw was “bright red,” but that he remembered the color of the “brownish” dried blood at his entrance when he finally returned.

Brown said he was not involved in his security team’s decision to remove Hades of the premises before law enforcement arrived, nor was he involved, he said, in having a security guard take the animal to Humboldtwhere the dog, described as a Caucasian Shepherd Dog, was abandoned.

“So if you knew that one of your security guards took the dog to Humboldtput him in your car, tied him to a tree and left him there, would you have fired the security guard for doing that?” asked the lawyer Avila. Brown said he would have let his manager handle the situation if he had known. He said the dog actually belonged to his head of security and was living on his property as a deterrent to potential stalkers or home invaders.

In his own statement made in October 2023, Avila said the dog jumped on her without warning. “He attacked me in the face, in the hand, and sank his teeth into my foot,” she said. “I didn’t see it, I just felt it — it was something very big.” When asked if she saw Brown take the dog away, Avila said no, although he believed it was Brown who called 911. She said that from then on, “I only heard the car that left.” She disputed the allegation that Brown that he was told not to leave the house without permission.

In his petition filed on Monday, 2, Brown argues that Avila failed to substantiate his claim that Brown acted with malice or engaged in any “outrageous conduct.” For that reason, his claims for emotional distress and punitive damages should be dismissed before trial, he says. The lawyer for Avila, Nancy Doumaniandid not immediately respond to a request for comment. The process of Avila and the related negligence claim filed by his sister were consolidated into the same trial scheduled for February 9, 2026.

The new motion to Brown to dismiss the allegations of punitive and emotional damages has a hearing scheduled for January 15th. The husband of Maria is a co-author in its process. He claims that the harm to his wife caused him “damages for loss of consortium.” Brownin turn, is being sued together with your company, Black Pyramid, LLC.

“Defendants anticipate that Plaintiffs will point to Defendants’ conduct after the incident in support of their claim for punitive damages. However, any actions that Defendants took after the incident are entirely irrelevant because those actions in no way contributed to the occurrence of the incident,” attorneys for Brown in his petition filed on Monday, 2.

“Plaintiffs will likely argue that defendants’ decision to take Hades to another location and having him euthanized was an attempt to ‘conceal evidence’ and was therefore oppressive, fraudulent and malicious,” the document continued. “Rather, it was an attempt to remove what had just become an unpredictable animal from a terrible situation and ensure that nothing like it would happen again. The intention was not to ‘hide’ or ‘destroy’ evidence, but rather to prevent the risk of future harm. For these reasons, plaintiffs cannot provide any evidence to support a claim for punitive damages.”

In a separate document in June, the defense of Brown said there is no security footage of the incident. “[Nenhum vídeo] was recorded because the cameras were broken on the date of the incident as a result of a break-in or robbery that had occurred at the property a few weeks earlier,” the defense statement to the court said. “The head of security, Emil Lewistestified to this under oath during his testimony.”

• Chris Brown