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Jun 18, 2025 12:46 PM IST While Christian Keyes didn’t title his alleged abuser, a number of web sleuths speculated that he was speaking about Tyler Perry. Tyler Perry is making headlines after being accused of sexual harassment, office gender violence and sexual assault in a lawsuit by actor Derek Dixon, who isseeking no less than $260 million in damages. However, this isn’t the primary time Perry has come beneath fireplace. Old video of Christian Keyes accusing ‘poweful man’ of sexually harassing him resurfaces (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File, christiankeyes/Instagram) In a December 2023Instagram stay, Christian Keyes, an actor and author whose novel ‘Ladies Night’ was tailored within the BET+ present ‘All the Queen’s Men,’ spoke out in opposition to alleged abuse he had confronted, particularly referring to a “powerful man” in Hollywood who he accused of sexually harassing him. While Keyes didn’t title his alleged abuser, a number of web sleuths speculated that he was speaking about Perry. Perry employed Keyes in his stage performs ‘Madea Goes to Jail’ and ‘What’s Done within the Dark,’ and likewise produced ‘All the Queen’s Men.’ What did Christian Keyes say?Keyes stated in his video on the time that his abuser had a number of Black folks on a payroll. “You get a grown-a** man that knows you’re heterosexual and you’re sleeping off Hennessey in his guest room, because he says it’s safe…I’m 5 full Hennesseys down and not short Hennesseys either. And this dude tries to climb in the bed with you, so you spaz out, push him out,” Keyes said while talking the alleged sexual assault. Social media users are now drawing similarities between Keyes and Dixon’s allegations against Perry. “Actor Derek A Dixon and Christian Keyes stories are extremely similar, and both men continued working with the abuser. Both victims never called the police nor filed a police report,”one X consumer wrote. “remember Christian Keyes made this video about Tyler Perry (allegedly) last year? I remember a blind item saying he was paid off, but more people will come forward about TP. I guess where there’s smoke, there is fire,” one other stated. One consumer wrote, “The same story Derek Dixon is sharing of his alleged sexual assault from Tyler Perry is the SAME story Christian Keyes shared about a “Black Hollywood giant” that he’s labored w/ for yrs earlier than he was bullied into deleting his movies from IG. Believe survivors the FIRST time.” Dixon’s lawsuit accused Perry of utilizing “his power and influence to molest, abuse, and sexually assault impressionable and vulnerable employees and actors who look to him for guidance and mentorship,” in line with The Guardian.Perry has denied the allegations, along with his legal professional, Matthew Boyd, saying in a press release, “This is an individual who got close to Tyler Perry for what now appears to be nothing more than setting up a scam. But Tyler will not be shaken down and we are confident these fabricated claims of harassment will fail.”
