The Family Behind the Fallout: Space Jesus’ parents detail witness accounts of ex-girlfriend turned rape accuser’s behavior [OP-ED]
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When Space Jesus (Jasha Tull) filed a recent lawsuit alleging harassment, defamation, and stalking, it wasn’t just about clearing his name. The complaint revealed something deeper: a family under siege, a digital mob turned personal, and a story of fear stretching from festival fields to the front porch of the Tull family home in Princeton, New Jersey.
The filings describe years of escalating harassment allegedly committed by Michaela Higgins (also known online as @Caeli_La and @Caeli_xo), who had once been romantically involved with Jasha Tull. In her parents’ sworn declarations, the nightmare began in 2016 — when Higgins appeared uninvited at their summer home and, according to Dr. Herman Tull, “stood on our property and began shouting loudly at us… berating [Jasha] that if he did not renew their romantic relationship, she would seek to destroy him personally and professionally.”
Conscious Electronic has obtained new court declarations from Tull’s parents— offering a disturbing, firsthand look at the harassment, threats, and intimidation they say they endured at the hands of Michaela Higgins — the same woman named in Tull’s 2021 lawsuit for defamation, harassment, and stalking.
These filings, submitted by Dr. Herman Tull, Ph.D., and Dr. Lekha Tull, DDS, offer a window into seeing what the family describes as a years-long campaign of digital and in-person terror — one that reached far beyond social media and into their own home. The sworn statements depict a pattern of obsessive behavior, unprovoked confrontations, and explicit threats that offer another window into the behaviors of a woman who has co-opted the #MeToo Movement for personal gain.
From Online Smear to Real-World Stalking
According to the court documents, the ordeal began in 2016, when Higgins, who had been romantically involved with Jasha Tull, appeared unannounced at the Tull family’s summer home in Harvey Cedars, New Jersey. In his declaration, Dr. Herman Tull recalls that she “stood on our property and began shouting loudly at us… berating [Jasha] that if he did not renew their romantic relationship, she would seek to destroy him personally and professionally.”
His wife, Dr. Lekha Tull, corroborated this encounter almost verbatim: “She berated us that she and Jasha were meant to be together, and that if he did not renew their romantic relationship, she would seek to destroy him personally and professionally.”
Rather than calling police, Dr. Lekha says she offered to help Higgins leave safely — changing her airline ticket to return to the West Coast. But that kindness, she says, marked only “the beginning of years of harassment.”
“A Campaign of Harassment, Defamation, and Fear”
The declarations reveal what the parents describe as a “multi-platform assault” that unfolded over the next several years. Higgins allegedly sent them dozens of messages across email, Instagram, and text — alternating between pleas, accusations, and threats.
In one particularly alarming passage, Dr. Lekha Tull recounts receiving a barrage of messages accusing her son of sexual assault, naming two supposed witnesses — both of whom, she says, later contradicted Higgins’s story. When confronted with that inconsistency, Higgins allegedly pivoted, claiming Jasha suffered from “multiple concurrent substance issues” and demanding that his parents “make him get help.”
By 2019, the digital harassment had widened. Dr. Herman Tull states he began receiving tags from accounts with names like @fuckthekkkops and @evidenceagainstspacejesus, accusing his son of being a “serial rapist” and “drug addict.” He writes that the experience was so distressing it led him to “severely restrict” his social media use and retire from teaching at Princeton and Lafayette College — “a profession I loved dearly.”
The toll wasn’t just professional. Herman writes that he and his wife now live in constant fear that Higgins could act on her words: “Her knowledge of our home addresses, combined with her prior history of confronting my family unannounced… along with her apparent public postings a short drive away and with a firearm, all create significant anxiety that she can or will act violently against us.”
Harassment Spreads to Their Business
The filings also reveal how the alleged campaign spilled into Dr. Lekha Tull’s dental practice, DenTull, where Higgins reportedly posted defamatory comments accusing her of overcharging patients for COVID-19 testing.
The accusation, Dr. Lekha says, was both false and devastating: “My practice is a licensed COVID-19 testing facility and follows all laws and regulations in accordance with its licensure. We further distribute tests to community members who are uninsured without charging them.”
She describes the stress of having her professional reputation attacked online as “severe and ongoing,” saying that some patients even brought up the false accusations during appointments.
A Family in Hiding
Both parents emphasize the psychological toll of living under the shadow of harassment. “Her statements led to numerous student inquiries,” Herman wrote. “I determined it was untenable to engage with or counteract her unwanted communications without drawing her ire or that of her supporters.”
Lekha echoes that isolation: “Her false accusations and harassment… have forced us not to reenter and engage with community life. The prospect for renewal of this harassment and its further spread have severely hampered the likelihood that our lives will return to normalcy.”
The couple’s words paint a portrait of a family besieged — their personal and professional worlds shaken by what they describe as “unceasing, unwanted communications” and “threats that escalated in both tone and proximity.”
These revelations deepen an already complex legal and cultural story.
The Dangerous Precedent of Digital Vigilantism
The Tull family’s ordeal reveals what happens when the noble aims of #MeToo are twisted into a weapon of personal vendetta. Movements born to protect the vulnerable can be co-opted by those who exploit their moral authority — and in this case, Higgins’ alleged conduct reads less like activism and more like obsession masquerading as justice.
Through her repeated appearances, late-night messages, false accusations, and veiled threats, Higgins blurred the line between accountability and abuse. What began as a personal grievance metastasized into a campaign of defamation and intimidation that terrorized not only an artist but his entire family.
Her actions expose the most dangerous mutation of online call-out culture — where belief without verification becomes a license to destroy, and digital empathy devolves into mob power. Each post, each tag, each false claim was another blow not just to the Tulls, but to the integrity of a movement meant to uphold truth.
For Conscious Electronic, this is the heart of the issue: accountability and compassion are not opposites. Real justice demands evidence, empathy, and restraint. The Tulls’ story reminds us that when we abandon those principles, we invite a culture of chaos — one where unverified accusation replaces due process, and vigilantism cloaks itself in virtue.
Because when moral outrage becomes performative violence, and when individuals like Higgins exploit a movement to settle personal scores, the result isn’t progress — it’s persecution. And that’s not justice. It’s tyranny in the age of the algorithm.
Read the full complaints from Jasha Tull’s mother, Dr. Lehka Tull, below.
Read the full complaints from Jasha Tull’s father, Dr. Herman Tull, below.
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