Who Is Madison Shockley III? Issa Rae Accused of Assaulting Actor with a Chair

Madison Shockley III accused Insecure star Issa Rae of assault in a Monday Facebook post. The actor took to social media to say Rae, who arguably has one of the most popular comedies on HBO, dug a chair into his foot and smiled during a dinner event in 2012. Shockley played Rae's love interest, Fred, on the web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.

Shockley apparently tried to confront Rae for years but she never responded. "I'm no longer afraid to address it publicly for numerous reasons but among them is the fact that my private attempts to reach out to her over the past five or six years have failed to result in even a returned phone call," he wrote.

According to Shockley, he asked to meet Rae after a screening of ABG in New York. She told him to meet at a restaurant with Pharrell Williams, who apparently sponsored Season 2 of the show. When he showed up with his friends, he was invited to sit down and have some drinks. "There was calamari going around too, it was great," he remembered.

That's when Rae, 33, showed up with two of her friends. There wasn't room for her or her guests at the table. "I look up from my drink and plate of calamari to see her walking in and staring at me dagger eyes. I rose up out of my seat to say hello to her as she walked over," Shockley said. "Then I realized that there were no more seats at the table for her and her guest to sit down at."

The actor, 31, said his goodbyes and got ready to leave but not before Rae allegedly made her displeasure clear. "As Issa approached, I offered her my seat. She took the chair, placed the foot of it on the top of my foot then used her hands to put pressure from the top of the chair down on my foot," Shockley alleged. "While she smiled at my face, she was driving the foot of the chair into my foot. I got the message that she was very upset that I was there."

He continued: "I held a welt under my breath out of not wanting to be embarrassed in front of everyone. And it happened so fast I was shocked that he had just done that. I limped out of that restaurant and into a cab with my two friends. When we got in the cab I immediately started cursing and taking my shoe and sock off. I had a bruise and a scratch that broke the skin on the top of my foot."

Read Shockley's full statement here.

Aside from AGB, Shockley is best known for The Neighbors, Almost 30, True Friendship Society and Next Day Air.

Shockley did not immediately respond to Newsweek's request for comment. Rae's rep said she had no comment.