Ezra Miller: ‘The Flash Is the One Who Brings the Multiverse Together Just Like Jesus’

In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, investigative reporter Julie Miller uncovers the truth  behind the deluge of innuendo over the last six weeks about Ezra Miller, in which sources describe the actor’s spiral as a conflagration of mental health issues, drugs, guns, and outlandish claims and that finally stopped  when “The notion that The Flash was at risk was a wake-up call.”

What’s clear is that Miller has been endangering not just their career, but also their safety—and allegedly that of others—in increasingly plain sight for the last two years. Since 2020, the actor has been accused of crimes and abuses spanning 6,000 miles and two oceans: throwing a chair that hit a woman in the forehead, threatening a couple in their bedroom and stealing their wallet and passport in Hawaii, on top of the incident at Margarita Village; choking two strangers in Iceland; and breaking into a neighbor’s home in Vermont to steal alcohol, which resulted in a felony charge.

Miller has long fashioned themself as a Hollywood outsider and queer champion who blurs gender lines and seems to revel in provocation. The actor has offered journalists marijuana midinterview and spoken in gibberish to reporters at ComicCon while wearing silk lingerie as a sexy Super Mario Bros. character. In 2018, in what was intended to be a jovial junket interview promoting Fantastic Beasts, Miller recounted a childhood nightmare that involved the PATH train, Beethoven, and their mother’s and sisters’ throats being slit open like pigs. (Miller’s costar mouthed “holy shit” to the camera.) Though it veered dark, the actor’s eccentricity initially struck many as endearing—a rarity in a town where most celebrities are on script even off set. Miller’s outspokenness about sexuality and gender identity earned them a reputation for empathy and progressiveness, as well as effusive internet titles like “queer icon,” “the hero we need right now,” and “our nonbinary king.” In 2018, GQ Style put Miller on its cover, and wrote, “Please God, tell us the next generation of movie stars is going to be like this.”

Miller doesn’t uncover much new about the list of allegations but does underscore them with some juicy one liners and anecdotes, the best being perhaps Miller’s comparison of the superhero speedster to God when he allegedly told his entourage:

“The Flash Is the One Who Brings the Multiverse Together Just Like Jesus.”

Miller reveals that despite all this, “the actor’s legal problems, through good luck or good lawyering, have mostly gone poof. VF has seen one nondisclosure agreement and heard of a handful of others in what three sources describe as a whack-a-mole style legal strategy of paying off alleged victims. (Miller declined to comment.) No charges were pressed in Iceland. In Hawaii, Miller paid a $500 fine after pleading no contest to a disorderly conduct charge related to the karaoke arrest, as part of a plea deal where other charges were dropped. Other allegations in Hawaii—about Miller hurling a chair at a woman, and breaking into a couple’s home, shouting obscenities, and stealing a passport and other legal documents—were subsequently dropped. A source close to that couple refused to comment, but warned VF, “Don’t poke a hornet’s nest because one stung a few people.”

In an investigation by @juliewmiller over the last six weeks, sources describe the actor’s spiral as a conflagration of mental health issues, drugs, guns, and outlandish claims.

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Online, Miller’s fans battle negative headlines on the star’s behalf. People who have spoken out against Miller on record, or supported their alleged victims, have been attacked and doxed on Twitter. “I know Johnny Depp has a lot of fans and stuff,” says a person close to Miller, who claims that Miller’s fans are even more dedicated. “People devote their time to do this at a time when it’s needed.”

In early August, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav told investors that he was bullish on The Flash and that the movie would go forward with its 2023 theatrical release. The Hollywood Reporter, however, reported that Warner Bros. had discussed scrapping the film. Four days later, Miller released their contrite statement about addressing their “complex mental health issues.”

“The notion that The Flash was at risk was a wake-up call,” says the actor’s rep. Miller and their CAA agent even made a trip to the studio’s Burbank, California, headquarters to apologize for the negative PR in person and express renewed commitment. The actor is now said to be working with producers on The Flash to shoot additional scenes.

If Miller is in treatment then there seems to be room in everyone’s hearts to forgive.. and for The Flash to perhaps become the biggest box office ever,