Soulja Boy testified in his own defense Tuesday at a civil trial in California, telling jurors he “never” assaulted the woman who claims he beat, raped, and held her against her will while she lived with him as a personal assistant starting in 2019.
The rapper, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, vehemently denied the graphic and harrowing testimony that the woman gave March 19 when she first took the stand in the trial now underway in Santa Monica. The woman, who sued under a Jane Doe pseudonym, told jurors that Way allegedly first raped her in a bathroom during a police raid of his home in mid-February 2019. She claimed he went on to regularly beat, berate, and sexually assault her during a tortured, two-year relationship that sometimes involved consensual intimacy.
Way, 34, admitted Tuesday that there was a sexual encounter with the woman when police showed up…
