“Behind me is a screenshot from one of the videos I found of myself. The yellow circle, my naked silhouette, is my naked body,” she added. “I didn’t know that I had been filmed. I didn’t give my consent. I didn’t give my permission.”
Mace’s ex-fiancé, Patrick Bryant, has vehemently denied the allegations made against him.
“I categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made by Nancy Mace,” Bryant said in a statement obtained by the New York Post. “I have never raped anyone. I have never hidden cameras. I have never harmed any woman. These accusations are not just false — they are malicious and deeply personal.
“My mistake was loving and trusting someone who later weaponized our relationship.”
Bryant claims Mace is making the accusations in order to shield herself from legal action as the Constitution’s speech and debate clause gives lawmakers immunity from potential criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits for “acts taken within the legislative sphere.”
“If she believed them to be true and there was evidence to support her accusations, she would say them outside the chamber — away from her public role and protections and pursue them through proper legal channels,” Bryant said. “She has not done so, because she cannot.”
Mace initially went public with her allegations against Bryant and three of his business partners of committing “depraved” sexual crimes against herself and a dozen other women, including underage girls, while addressing the House of Representatives in February. The congresswoman claimed she discovered evidence of rape, voyeurism and other sexual abuse committed by the four men in 10,000 videos and photographs on her ex-fiancé’s phone.
Mace’s allegations against Bryant are being investigated by the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division and he claims to have “fully cooperated” with the probe.
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