Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - U.S. Rep member, Nancy Mace shared photos of her “n@ked silhouette” on Capitol Hill Tuesday, May 20, alleging that they were taken without her consent by her ex-fiance.
The congresswoman addressed the photo during a House
Oversight Committee hearing.
She said: “Freedom is not a theory. It is the right to
breathe. It is the right to dress and undress, to sleep without someone’s
camera filming your n@ked body.
“The Founders wrote liberty in parchment, but hidden cameras
erase it in pixels.” “I speak not just as a lawmaker, but as a survivor,”
she added
As Mace urged lawmakers to support legislation expanding
prohibitions on video voyeurism, behind her were poster boards of
black-and-white still images apparently taken from a security camera installed
in the living room of a home, which showed a blurry figure.
Mace claimed she was the figure, which she had circled in
yellow.
“Behind me is a screenshot from one of the videos I found of
myself. The yellow circle, my n@ked silhouette, is my n@ked body,” she said. “I
didn’t know that I had been filmed. I didn’t give my consent. I didn’t give my
permission.”
Patrick Bryant, Mace’s ex-fiancé, has vehemently denied the
allegations.
“I categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made
by Nancy Mace,” Bryant said in a statement. “I have never raped anyone. I have
never hidden cameras. I have never harmed any woman. These accusations are not
just false — they are malicious and deeply personal.
“My mistake was loving and trusting someone who later
weaponized our relationship.”
Bryant claims that Mace is lobbing the accusations in her
official capacity as a congressional lawmaker in order to shield herself from
legal action.
The Constitution’s speech and debate clause provides
lawmakers immunity from potential criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits for
“acts taken within the legislative sphere.”
“If she believed them to be true and there was evidence to
support her accusations, she would say them outside the chamber — away from her
public role and protections and pursue them through proper legal channels,”
Bryant said. “She has not done so, because she cannot.”
Mace first brought her allegations against Bryant and three
of his business partners to light in a shocking House floor speech in
February.
The congresswoman accused her ex-fiancé of committing
“depraved” s£xual crimes against herself and a dozen other women — including
underage girls — in the explosive remarks.
Mace claimed that she discovered evidence of r@pe, voyeurism
and other s£xual abuse in trove of more than 10,000 videos and photographs she
found in her former husband-to-be’s phone.
The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division is
investigating Mace’s allegations against Bryant, who claims he has “fully
cooperated” with the probe.
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