The "Rick and Morty" co-creator was fired due to allegations of domestic violence. According to investigators, he beat his girlfriend

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In mid-January 2023 , it became known that the California District Attorney's Office in Orange was accusing Justin Roiland of domestic violence. According to the prosecution, in 2020, Roiland beat and forcibly held the girl with whom he met and lived together (the investigation did not disclose her name). in August 2020 She contacted the police and Roiland was arrested . He was later released on $50,000 bail, and the case has since gone through several pre-trial hearings. The next one is scheduled for April 27th.

Roiland faces up to seven years in prison, he pleaded not guilty. Just a week ago, Roiland's lawyer accused the media of "inaccurate coverage" of the situation and said he expected the case to be closed soon in favor of his client. However, it soon became known that several more people accused Roiland of abuse and inappropriate sexualized behavior, including in relation to underage fans.

For example, one girl said that 35-year-old Roiland began flirting with her by correspondence in 2016, when she was only 16 years old. Three years later, he invited her to a bar, where she said he tried to get her drunk. He then brought her to his apartment, where he forced her into group sex with two other girls.

Other social media users tell similar stories of how Roiland wrote compliments to them in private messages on social networks and asked them if they had boyfriends when they were underage. And journalist Jordan Cruciola wrote that journalists began to investigate how Roiland abuses women until 2020: “There are even more such women and stories.”

Roiland was fired from Rick and Morty. Adult Swim, which produces the animated series, had previously declined to comment on news about Roiland, but on January 24, spokesperson for the channel, Marie Moore , announced that the studio had ended its partnership with Roiland. The same information appeared on the twitter of the series.

Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon created an animated sci-fi sitcom about a mad scientist and his grandson in 2013. For six seasons, the animated series aired on Cartoon Network as part of Adult Swim's late-night programming block. The series was the most viewed on the channel : during the premiere, each episode of the last season was watched by an average of 560,000 viewers. In 2018, Adult Swim ordered 70 more episodes of the animated series, which actually extended Rick and Morty to 10 seasons.

Roiland not only wrote the script, but also voiced the two main characters of the show - the inventor Rick and his grandson Morty. Now Adult Swim is going to invite other actors for these roles, unnamed sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. According to them, Roiland will remain in the credits of the next seasons of the show as a co-creator, but Dan Harmon will be the sole showrunner.

Roiland also created and voiced the animated comedy The Other Side of the Earth and produced the animated series Koala Man, which aired on Hulu and Disney+. The fate of Roiland's collaboration with Hulu and 20th Television is still unknown. The companies previously declined to comment. Also, after the announcement by Adult Swim , it became known that last week Roiland quit the game studio Squanch Game, which he co-founded in 2016.