Filmmaker Yi Zhou is standing by her accusations towards actor Jeremy Renner, who has denied sending her “unsolicited” sexual photos of himself and threatening to report her to ICE.
Zhou, who labored on the documentary “Chronicles of Disney” with Renner, dropped the bombshell allegations towards him this week in a sequence of Instagram posts. In a single, she wrote that the 54-year-old “Mayor of Kingstown” actor first contacted her in June by sending her “a string of undesirable / unsolicited pornographic photos of himself” by WhatsApp and direct messaging.
The filmmaker posted screenshots of her alleged interactions with Renner on her Instagram web page together with photographs taken with him, stating in a later submit the pictures are “details” and she or he has the “metadata saved.”
Then, in an interview with the Every day Mail printed Thursday, she accused the actor of getting drunk and yelling for 2 hours throughout a dialogue in regards to the documentary at his dwelling. She instructed the outlet she needed to lock herself in a room to be secure, “praying he wouldn’t come into the room at night time as he was actually offended.”
She added, “I didn’t say a phrase, I used to be so scared for my life.”
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Zhou’s allegations share some similarities to accusations from Renner’s ex-wife, Sonni Pacheco, who in a 2019 divorce continuing claimed he threatened to kill her. Renner known as the incident “one-sided” on the time, and in July instructed The Guardian, “It’s all of the salaciousness that occurs on the market. It’s clickbait, and it hurts my emotions and it dehumanizes folks.”
Zhou wrote in one other submit, “After I known as him out privately about his previous misconduct and requested him to behave correctly, to respect me as a girl and as a filmmaker, he threatened to name immigration/ICE on me, an act that deeply shocked and frightened me.” On Saturday, Zhou shared a cease-and-desist letter.
A spokesperson for Renner instructed Selection, “the allegations being made are completely inaccurate and unfaithful.”
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The actor’s lawyer Marty Singer additionally denied Zhou’s claims, labeling them “false, outrageous and extremely defamatory” in an announcement to Individuals. Singer additionally accused Zhou of retaliating towards his shopper after he “rejected her romantic advances.”
Singer claimed Zhou and Renner solely met twice, as soon as in July at a lodge in Reno, Nevada, the place that they had a “temporary consensual encounter.” Zhou mentioned in an Instagram submit on Saturday that their first bodily encounter was “not consensual,” including that “later interactions grew to become consensual, but the sooner incident remained deeply distressing.”
Renner’s lawyer instructed Individuals the 2 met once more in August, including that his shopper has not spoken to Zhou in over a month and has ignored her “sexually specific messages expressing her love.”
“The true details are that Ms. Zhou has relentlessly and aggressively harassed and pursued my shopper for months with no reciprocation on my shopper’s half, apart from a single temporary encounter on July 12, 2025,” Singer instructed Individuals.
Renner’s authorized crew has despatched Zhou a cease-and-desist letter of their very own, accusing her of “defamatory communications” and threatening her with authorized motion if she continues to submit “false, fabricated and salacious lies,” in line with the outlet.
The letter, reviewed by Individuals, alleged Zhou “aggressively pursued a sexual/romantic/sexting relationship” with Renner and “has manufactured pretend and outlandish claims … to generate publicity”
Nevertheless, Zhou continued to submit on Saturday, responding to Individuals’s article saying “many ladies have spoken up about Jeremy Renner’s misconduct.”
“My intention just isn’t retaliation however transparency,” Zhou wrote on Saturday.