The mother and father of Tokata Iron Eyes (left), 18, allege that their daughter was secretly groomed by "The Flash" actor Ezra Miller for years.
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Sara Leaping Eagle grew up on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, one of many poorest counties within the US. She graduated from Stanford Medical Faculty and returned to the reservation to assist the Lakota folks as a pediatrician and activist.
Now 50, Leaping Eagle by no means anticipated to wind up on a busy avenue in Santa Monica final month — in a bodily brawl with “The Flash” star Ezra Miller, 29. However she believes that the troubled Hollywood superhero has brainwashed, assaulted and presumably drugged her 18-year-old daughter, Tokata Iron Eyes, after grooming the lady for years. Miller is now touring with Tokata and several other different younger girls in California, she informed The Submit.
“He’s not letting Tokata or the opposite ladies bathe or put on make-up,” Leaping Eagle claimed to The Submit. “They must ask his permission. It’s an R. Kelly kind state of affairs and it’s very scary.”
Leaping Eagle and her husband, lawyer and Native American activist Chase Iron Eyes, 44, say Miller’s poisonous habits contains the appropriation of Native beliefs. She informed The Submit that Miller, the New Jersey-born baby of a Manhattan writer and his actress spouse, even lectured them on what sort of Lakota medication man her household ought to use.
“Like this man is aware of s–t about what he’s speaking about,” Leaping Eagle mentioned. “Telling us what to do in our personal tradition?”
Leaping Eagle mentioned she is glad the grandmother who raised her, Juanita White Eyes, is not round to see what’s occurred to Tokata.
“#EzraMiller is [a] religious voyeur dabbling in numerous indigenous peoples’ religious beliefs, combining w voodoo; utilizing these beliefs [in] Tokata Iron Eyes thoughts, luring extra folks in cult-like method,” Leaping Eagle tweeted final week.
The “Justice League” star was arrested in March in Hawaii for disorderly conduct and later pled no contest. Miller, who makes use of them/they pronouns, was additionally accused of allegedly throwing a chair at a lady and being the topic of 10 911 calls in lower than a month in Hawaii. They have been caught on video apparently choking a lady in Reykjavik, Iceland, on April 1.
Tokata, who has referred to as Miller her “comrade” on social media, was in Hawaii with the actor after they have been arrested.
Leaping Eagle and her husband each flew to Los Angeles from Pine Ridge in late Could to, they are saying, rescue Tokata, who’s additionally an activist, from what they describe because the “cult-like” grip of Miller.
Calls and emails from The Submit to Miller, the actor’s mother and father, Miller’s agent at CAA, Warner Bros. and Tokata herself went unanswered. Tokata posted a video on Instagram Thursday defending herself towards accusations she is being managed by Miller.
“It’s no one’s enterprise and no one is owed a narrative or final result,” she mentioned within the two-minute video. “That is my life and these are my determination and I’m disenchanted in my mother and father and the press — in each method. “
Tokata dropped out of a personal highschool in Massachusetts in December, her mother and father mentioned, to stay with Miller in Vermont and go on street journeys with them everywhere in the nation. She has not had a telephone since January 2022, by her personal admission. Her mother and father failed to steer her to go away the actor in LA, nevertheless, and returned to Pine Ridge with out her.
However earlier than they left, Leaping Eagle mentioned that she filed a police report about what she referred to as Miller’s assault of her on the road. (She confirmed The Submit pictures of bruises she claimed have been inflicted by the actor through the skirmish.) The couple additionally went to the Warner Bros.’ headquarters in Burbank to stress the corporate to do one thing about its “The Flash” star. The Submit didn't hear again from the Santa Monica Police Division about whether or not a police report had been filed.
In courtroom paperwork filed in Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Court docket final week, the couple allege that Miller, 29, “makes use of violence, intimidation, risk of violence, worry, paranoia, delusions and medicines to carry sway over a younger adolescent Tokata.” Each Leaping Eagle and Iron Eyes have tweeted out frantic cries for assist for his or her daughter in current days.
The tribal courtroom has issued an order of safety towards Ezra on behalf of Tokata. A listening to is ready for subsequent month.
Tokata was round 9 years outdated in Nov. 2012 when Miller, then 19, got here on a fact-finding mission to a uranium-mining area of the Black Hills in South Dakota that the Lakota think about a sacred website.
Miller returned in 2016, when Tokata was 12, to take part within the #NoDAPL protest on the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, together with celebrities together with Mark Ruffalo and Shailene Woodley. Tokata was there, protesting the North Dakota Entry Pipeline alongside her mother and father, when she and Miller first fashioned a friendship, Leaping Eagle mentioned.
By then, Tokata was already thought of a youth chief and had testified towards the mining on the website whereas protesting at quite a few tribal water rights demonstrations.
Tokata proved such an influential activist through the years that Angelina Jolie interviewed her for her 2021 e-book, “Know Your Rights and Declare Them.”
Miller flew Tokata out to London, the place the actor was filming “Implausible Beasts and The place to Discover Them,” in 2017. Leaping Eagle mentioned one other household from Standing Rock accompanied Miller and Tokata, so she wasn’t apprehensive concerning the journey.
It wasn’t till final week that Tokata’s mother and father, shocked by the current occasions involving their daughter, started calling round to individuals who knew each Miller and Tokata. Leaping Eagle mentioned she reached out to the household pal who went to London with Tokata and Miller in 2017— and was shocked by what she informed her.
“She mentioned she caught Ezra attempting to sleep in the identical room as Tokata, who was 14 on the time,” Leaping Eagle claimed. “She informed him, Ezra you may’t sleep in there along with her’ and saved checking on him the entire time they have been over there.”
However again then Leaping Eagle and her husband had believed that Miller — who identifies as non-binary and queer — was innocent and simply “buddies” with their daughter. Over the subsequent few years, the star and Tokata saved in contact. As soon as Iron Eyes introduced Tokata to New York for a “Respect Our Water” protest after being invited by Miller and others, Leaping Eagle mentioned.
Miller continued to go to the household at Pine Ridge, the place he grew to become infatuated with an area medication man named Jasper. On one other event, he informed Tokata’s household he knew a greater medication particular person than theirs. “Are you able to think about that?” Leaping Eagle mentioned. “He thinks he is aware of our tradition higher than us?”
It was Miller who steered Tokata, who was rising bored on the the Pink Cloud Indian Faculty at Pine Ridge, switch in 2020 for her junior 12 months to Bard Faculty at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts, an accelerated personal highschool affiliated with Bard, which Miller’s sister attended.
However Tokata ended up dropping out of Simon’s Rock late final 12 months after an intensified involvement with Miller, Leaping Eagle mentioned. Tokata started spending time at Miller’s Vermont dwelling with an entourage that included folks like queer efficiency artist Stella Marbles.
Though each Miller and Tokata say they're homosexual and presumably transgender, Leaping Eagle mentioned she believes the 2 have been having intercourse for months.
“Ezra’s utilizing ‘they’ pronouns as a result of they don’t wish to be labeled a white, privileged male,” Leaping Eagle informed The Submit. “However that’s what Ezra is. Ezra’s gaslighting everybody with the pronouns. What he’s doing with Tokata is R. Kelly kind stuff. However he doesn’t know who he’s f—king with. Tokata has a household who loves her. And also you don’t f–okay with water protectors.”
Though Tokata herself, in addition to Miller’s supporters, have referred to as Tokata’s mother and father abusive and transphobic, Leaping Eagle says that's false.
“None of those folks know us,” she mentioned. “We now have one other baby who identifies as non-binary. In our tradition there have at all times been what we name ‘winkte’ or ‘two-spirit’ people who find themselves essential and revered in our neighborhood.”
Led by Miller, the group took street journeys down South, together with to New Orleans, in addition to to California.
Leaping Eagle mentioned her husband seen Miller’s more and more unusual habits, saying that the actor calling themselves the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and spoke concerning the FBI and the KKK following them.
In late January, a pal of Miller’s who doesn’t wish to be recognized referred to as Leaping Eagle and Iron Eyes to say Tokata was at risk on the home in Vermont.
Tokata’s mother and father then went to Miller’s dwelling in Vermont and mentioned they discovered Tokata in what seemed to be a psychological breakdown.
“She was ranting and babbling and never making sense and Ezra was simply sitting there smirking and snapping his fingers prefer it was all a present,” Leaping Eagle mentioned. Leaping Eagle mentioned Tokata was visibly bruised and believes she was being given marijuana, LSD and ketamine.
Tokata’s mother and father succeeded in bringing her again to Pine Ridge, the place they took her to their medication man and to a sweat lodge to detox. They prayed Lakota prayers, Leaping Eagle mentioned.
“I saved telling Tokata, you have already got what Ezra and so lots of them are searching for,” Leaping Eagle mentioned. “We pray with the sacred pipe and the religious methods of Lakota folks and we’ve handed that on to our youngsters.”
Tokata bought a lot better whereas at dwelling, her mom mentioned, however in the end left once more to return to Miller. When her mother and father heard once more that Tokata was in LA with Miller and their entourage in Could and never doing effectively, they flew out once more to get her on Could 29.
After the Native American couple confronted Miller, Tokata and a few mates at a house in Santa Monica, the group began operating down the road.
Leaping Eagle discovered herself finally on busy Lincoln Boulevard the place, she claimed, Miller assaulted her whereas she was attempting to steer Tokata to get out of a automotive and are available dwelling.
“Ezra was slamming the door on my arms,” Leaping Eagle mentioned. ” I began hollering, Ezra cease!’ The police finally got here however Ezra and Tokata had gone.”
Miller, whose breakout movie was “We Must Speak About Kevin” in 2011, stars as Barry Allen in Warner Bros.’ movie model of DC Comics’ “The Flash.” The film, estimated to price between $100 and $150 million, was postponed from this summer time to June 2023, amid rumors — thus far unfounded — that Warner Bros. may substitute Miller due to the actor’s more and more erratic habits.
“The film appeared able to go,” Jeff Bock, a media analyst at Exhibitor Relations informed The Submit. “The truth that it’s being postponed appears to be solely the results of all this fiddle Ezra Miller. It’s a worst case state of affairs for a studio that wishes to maneuver forward with what may very well be a three-picture franchise. Relying on what occurs with this example with the younger lady, it may very well be a nightmare for them. Both method it could be a one-and-done for Ezra. You possibly can’t be a giant film star and act this manner.”
Now, Leaping Eagle and her husband need Warner Bros. to get entangled of their battle.
“Ezra simply retains hurting folks,” she mentioned. “He’ll most likely simply drop my daughter finally however what sort of form will she be in when he leaves her? And who’s subsequent?”
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