Sarah Brady, the surfer and Jonah Hill's ex-girlfriend, is speaking out against the actor and alleging that he was manipulative and emotionally abusive when they were together. In a series of screenshots shared on Brady's Instagram Stories on Friday, the surfer showcased alleged conversations with Hill in which he repeatedly asked her to take down certain photos he deemed “sexual,” and asked her to stop being friends with men and “women who are in unstable places."
In one of the first slides, Brady shared a screen recording of what appears to be a text conversation with Hill. She captioned the video, “This is a warning to all girls. If your partner is talking to you like this make an exit plan.” The recording showed texts of Hill allegedly sending screenshots of Brady's Instagram photos that he requested she remove. Many of the photos showed Brady, who is a surfer and instructor, in a bikini.
“I've made my boundaries clear,” Hill allegedly wrote. “You refuse to let go of some of [the pictures] and you've made that clear."
“Sharing this publicly now because keeping it to myself was causing more damage to my mental health than sharing it could ever do,” Brady wrote. In another slide, Brady credited an excerpt from a Teen Vogue article in which a woman was asking for advice about her partner telling her she couldn't wear a bikini to the beach. Brady captioned the screenshot, “[Teen Vogue] did for me what couples therapy didn't.”
Hill and Brady were first romantically linked in the summer of 2021 and broke up sometime the following year. The pair shut down rumors that they had been engaged in early 2022. Hill has not commented on Brady's allegations.
Brady also said that Hill used his experience in therapy as a way to “control” her. She also posted about Hill's “unethical” documentary he made with his therapist titled Stutz, and wrote “boycott Stutz.”
“I too struggle with mental health,” Brady wrote. “It's been a year of healing & growth with the help of loved ones and doctors to get back to living my life without guilt, shame, and self-judgment for things as small as surfing in a swimsuit rather than a more conservative wetsuit.”
Brady then continued to share more screenshots allegedly from Hill, in which he makes a list of things he needs her to give up in order to be his romantic partner — including posting photos of herself in a bathing suit, “boundaryless inappropriate friendships with men,” and surfing with other men.
Brady also shared a screenshot of Hill allegedly saying that anyone who models is “the last profession I would be with as a partner.”
In the midst of sharing screenshots on her Stories, Brady then posted a photo of herself in a white two-piece outfit with the caption, “Reviving a pic I took down by request of a misogynist narcissist.”
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Brady also wrote that she wishes for Hill to be “surrounded by feminist men” who will “hold him accountable."
The messages come just days after Keke Palmer's boyfriend and father to her son, Darius Jackson, publically shamed the actress for wearing a sheer dress to an Usher concert in Las Vegas. “It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom,” he wrote on Twitter. “We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is.”
Jackson was promptly chastised by the internet for trying to embarrass Palmer — who seemed to be unbothered by the drama and continued posting her concert outfit on Instagram. The situation brought up an important conversation about men controlling women and what they wear.
“I think fame can put people in an echo chamber of viewpoints which can enable emotionally abusive behavior," Brady continued. "Someone being an emotionally abusive partner doesn't mean they're a terrible person (often stems from their own trauma) and at the same time it doesn't mean it's ok."
If you or someone you know has experienced domestic violence or abuse, you can seek help by calling the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (individuals who are Deaf or hard of hearing may use TTY 1-800-787-3224). For more resources on violence and abuse, visit The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
