"How could you guys support sexual predator filmmaker Travis Mills!? He has abused physically and sexually, as well as blackmailed, many of the Arizona Film and Acting community. And you guys have the audacity to promote his films when he comes back out from under his rock? You have reached a new low! Why don't you do a little journalism and figure out who you're promoting??\nIf you choose to work with this person please be careful. This is a real testimony from just one of his victims.\n\nAmber R Nichols\n\"I've been holding back discussing it for years, but not for the reasons some may think. This has nothing to do with not having the courage due to feeling singled out. This has nothing to do with trying to take him down. This has everything to do with giving him the power and attention he loves.\n\nI was abused by Travis Mills, sexually, psychologically, and physically, from 2007 to 2008 when we were dating. After the breakup, mutual friends informed me that he would frequently gloat about what he was doing to me and what he had the power to do if he wanted. He told one friend about how he would intentionally create scenarios where he could abuse me in a way so that he could see how much he could do to me and I would still come crawling back. He can be quoted as saying, \"I have her at the point where I can hit her and she believes she deserves it.\" He also involved some of his friends in his strategies to abuse me. I will not name these people (who informed me, themselves), but they are welcome to speak up, as I do not hold them responsible. Often, these strategies seemed very innocent. When some of these mutual friends confronted him about what he was doing to me, he had one of two reactions. He either laughed and said, \"I'm just an asshole,\" or he stated \"When a man abuses a woman, she usually deserves it, simply for the reason that she allows the abuse to happen.\"\n\nAs a result of my relationship with Travis, I became suicidal, and began a long, painful, and expensive journey searching for treatment. It took years of misdiagnosis (it was even thought to be psychosis at one point, and I cannot tell you how horrifying it is to be on antipsychotics when you do not have psychosis, and how difficult and dangerous it is to come off of them). A couple of years ago, I was formally diagnosed with PTSD. Travis continued to be abusive through emails he sent to me after the break-up. In these emails, he states many things that illustrate his way of thinking, such as, \"Depression is for pussies. You are a pussy,\" and \"You deserved everything you got because, honestly, it's hard NOT to abuse you.\"\n\nA year after the breakup, I moved from central Tempe to central Mesa to get away from his romping grounds. Seven months later, Travis \"coincidentally\" moved into my apartment complex only four doors away from mine in a complex with over 500 units. I attempted to get a restraining order that would force him out, but the judge informed me that they could not issue one because I had not filed a police report in the past. They told me to wait for another incident to occur and to file a police report then. Only then would I be able to get a restraining order. I was suffering a severe psychological and emotional break due to him moving in, so I immediately broke my lease and moved into a new complex in Chandler within 4 days of discovering he had moved in. Before leaving the Mess complex, I approached him in the parking lot with a friend, told him I was moving to a new complex in another city, and that if I ever saw him, I would call the police. In the following years, I was vigilant in making sure to avoid him and his new friends and colleagues. I lost film opportunities and left social events because I discovered he was involved in some way or saw that he was present. Needless to say, after I confronted him and threatened to call the police if I saw him again, I never had a reason to call the police and file a complaint against him.\n\nMy reasons for not filing a police report when the abuse was happening was simply this: I was so psychologically and emotionally under his control that I believed I deserved everything he was doing to me. I became completely submissive to him in every way, to the point that I would not make decisions or even form likes and dislikes without consulting my mental \"what would Travis want?\" (I even stopped wearing high heels because he said he didn't like the way women walk in them)."^^ . . "2017-12-09T00:00:00"^^ . . . "2"^^ . "0"^^ . "1"^^ . "0"^^ .