Pop star defiant in groping testimony

DENVER — A defiant and occasionally exasperated Taylor Swift insisted during a whirlwind hour of testimony Thursday that a Denver disc jockey grabbed her bare backside and held on for a long time during a meet-and-greet before a concert.

The pop superstar used explicit language with little sugarcoating as she recounted what happened when she posed for a picture with David Mueller in 2013.

“He stayed attached to my bare ass-cheek as I lurched away from him,” Swift testified in federal court during a trial over dueling lawsuits in the case.

“It was a definite grab. A very long grab,” she said at one point.

The singer-songwriter used the word “ass” dozens of times on the witness stand, sometimes sarcastically, in her testy exchange with Mueller’s attorney that occasionally elicited chuckles — even from the eight-member jury.

Swift got a laugh from people in the courtroom when she said her security guard, Greg Dent, saw Mueller “lift my skirt” but someone would have had to have been underneath her to see the actual groping — “and we didn’t have anyone positioned there.”

Mueller denies groping Swift and says in his lawsuit that he was falsely accused and lost his job because of the allegation.

His lawsuit seeks up to $3 million in damages, though Mueller has said he’s not seeking a specific amount — just a chance to clear his name and salvage his career.

Swift countersued, alleging sexual assault. She is seeking a symbolic $1 judgment that holds Mueller responsible.