DJ who groped Taylor Swift can’t find a new job
No one wants to hire the DJ who groped Taylor Swift.
“Within probably a couple weeks [of the alleged incident] I started seeking employment,” David Mueller vented to TMZ on Thursday. “I also had a talent agent at the time of the incident.”
The “incident” which Mueller refers to occurred at a 2013 meet-and-greet where he reached up Swift’s skirt and grabbed her bare backside, after which he was terminated from his $150,000-a-year job at KYGO FM in Denver.
Last week, a Denver jury determined the DJ had groped the singer and that she was within her rights to contact his boss.
Mueller previously said he sued the “Out of the Woods” singer, as well as her mother and radio liaison Frank Bell, in civil court in an attempt to clear his name after he was fired.
Swift, 27, countersued for assault and battery and won a symbolic $1 judgment against Mueller, then began a campaign to financially support sexual assault survivors’ causes.
“Right now, I don’t have any offers. A lot of my friends in radio know that I’d be willing to even work for free. I offered to do a job that I did when I first got into radio, which is just screening phone calls. I think it’s hard for people to picture having me around,” he admitted.
The embattled DJ, who previously swore he’d pass a polygraph test to prove his innocence, is considering extreme measures to get back on the airwaves.
“I’m hoping to clear my name and get my reputation back so I can work on a morning show. That’s my No. 1 passion, morning radio,” he said. “When I’m talking to people, not one person has said, ‘Yeah, let’s give him a chance.’ That might change — this is still very fresh, this was a big story this week. Maybe in the future I may have to get some plastic surgery and change my identity. I don’t know.”