Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham filed a temporary restraining order against Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, her attorney announced Monday.

Grisham’s restraining order comes as Miller, 37, faces mounting calls to resign in light of allegations made by his ex-wife Emily Moreno — daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio — that the congressman physically abused her and their 2-year-old daughter. Miller has denied the allegations, which were made in court filings as part of the former couple’s ongoing custody dispute.

It was unclear in the immediate aftermath of that announcement why the restraining order is being filed at this time.

Grisham and Miller, who dated in 2019 and 2020, have been involved in a separate legal battle, after Grisham published a 2021 op-ed in the Washington Post describing an abusive relationship with her boyfriend who was, at the time, a White House staffer. While Grisham did not disclose the name of her boyfriend, Miller sued her for defamation hours after the op-ed was published and denied any allegations of abuse.

At the time, Miller was running for a House seat in Ohio’s 16th Congressional District.

Miller later dropped his defamation lawsuit against Grisham and both parties signed a nondisclosure agreement that noted they could not speak about each other in disparaging ways, according to court documents obtained by the Ohio Capital Journal.

“The settlement included certain promises that Congressman Miller made to our client Stephanie Grisham, and those promises were broken,” Marc Dann, Grisham’s lawyer, told the Journal.

Miller currently represents Ohio’s 7th Congressional District.

President Donald Trump weighed in on the situation on Monday.

“I always thought he was a very good person, and I’m going to let the families figure that out,” Trump told reporters.

Sen. Bernie Moreno did not speak directly about his daughter’s domestic violence allegations against Miller until Sunday, when Miller aired a livestream denying the accusations and asserting he was not ending his bid for reelection.

Sen. Moreno responded by saying Miller “should not serve in the House of Representatives” and should “seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake.”

Asked by reporters on Monday why he had stayed quiet for so long, Sen. Moreno replied: “You know, I hope you never have to go through a situation like this and you wouldn’t ask that kind of f—–g question.”

Mychael Schnell contributed to this report.

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