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Berg's February 2025 phone call to Erin Gunther

In February 2025, Alexis 'Ali' Berg placed a recorded phone call to Erin Gunther, an Assignment Desk Works employee who held the position Berg once had. Across several public court filings, the call is described as one in which Berg repeated the sexual-assault allegations Rep. Nancy Mace had told her, while also stating she had no memory of the event, had never seen the alleged video, and that Mace was her only source. The audio and transcript are litigation discovery and are not public; what is public is how the call is recounted in filed pleadings, in a sworn affidavit quoted in a public memorandum, and in counsel's statements in open court. Every allegation on every side is contested and unproven, the parties deny the claims against them, no criminal charges have been filed, and the litigation is ongoing.

Berg's February 2025 phone call to Erin Gunther

"Nancy's making all this up. This is literally a lie so she can get in some political position."

According to a sworn affidavit quoted in a public court filing, that is what Alexis "Ali" Berg told a co-worker she had told her own lawyer about Rep. Nancy Mace. The co-worker was Erin Gunther, an employee of Patrick Bryant's company Assignment Desk Works (ADW) who held the same position Berg once held. In February 2025, Berg, the plaintiff in Berg v. Bryant who initially proceeded as "Jane Doe," placed a phone call to Gunther, and Gunther recorded it. On that call, according to Gunther's sworn affidavit and Bryant's filings, Berg repeated the sexual-assault allegations Mace had described to her, while also stating she had no memory of the event, had never seen the alleged video, and that Mace was her only source. That is why the call matters to the Mace record. (It is a separate event from the leaked April 6, 2024 call between Mace and Berg; this one is between Berg and a co-worker, more than ten months later.)

The audio recording and transcript are discovery material and are not public (see below). What is public are the words below, quoted in filed court documents.

Berg's own words, as sworn by Gunther

After the call, Gunther signed an affidavit, dated May 9, 2025, recounting what Berg said. That affidavit was attached as Exhibit N to a publicly e-filed memorandum in the related GLT2, LLC v. Mace case (No. 2025-CP-10-00981). The exhibit copy was filed "redacted heavily," but the substance is quoted, un-redacted, in the body of the public memorandum (e-filed July 14, 2025). According to that memorandum, the affidavit quotes Berg saying:

"I haven't seen the video" and "Nancy doesn't have it, she [Mace] just told me what she saw."

"I don't know what to believe or who to trust . . . I called my lawyer last week and told them, 'Nancy's making all this up. This is literally a lie so she can get in some political position.'"

Page 22 of the publicly e-filed July 14, 2025 GLT2 v. Mace memorandum, quoting the Erin Gunther affidavit and noting in a footnote that the affidavit exhibit was redacted heavily for filing Page 22 of the GLT2 v. Mace memorandum (e-filed July 14, 2025), quoting the Gunther affidavit. The footnote states the affidavit exhibit itself "has been redacted heavily for filing herewith." The quotes are Berg's words as Gunther swore to them; they have not been tested by cross-examination.

To be exact about what is public: the affidavit's substantive quotes are public, because they are reproduced in the body of a public court memorandum. The affidavit exhibit attached to that memorandum was filed in heavily redacted form, and the full, unredacted affidavit is not part of the public record.

A note on the record below. The characterizations that follow reflect the positions parties took in their filed documents and the words attributed to witnesses in those documents. They are not findings by this wiki or assessments of the merits. Berg's allegations against Bryant, John Osborne, and Eric Bowman are her contentions; those men deny them. Bryant's account of the call is his contention; Berg disputes it. Mace has denied Bryant's allegations against her. No criminal charges have been filed against any party in connection with these matters. The litigation is ongoing.

How the pleadings describe the call

The fullest public description of the call appears in Bryant's Amended Counterclaims and Third-Party Complaint, e-filed in Berg v. Bryant (No. 2025-CP-10-03124) on December 9, 2025. In paragraphs 53 through 60, Bryant alleges that, on the call, Berg told Gunther she had been a victim, that there was video footage, and that she encouraged Gunther to leave ADW, while also, in Bryant's own telling, admitting she had no firsthand knowledge:

"Berg made these statements despite also admitting during this phone call with Gunther that she has no memory of it and that she had not seen the video. Berg also explained that Mace did not have the video." (Am. Countercl. para. 55)

"Despite admitting she lacked any firsthand knowledge and that her only source of this information was Mace, Berg did not stop there." (Am. Countercl. para. 57)

The same paragraphs are repeated in Bryant's November 6, 2025 Third-Party Complaint and in Mace's February 3, 2026 Amended Notice of Removal to federal court (No. 2:26-cv-00305-BHH-MHC), both of which are on the public docket.

Page 10 of Patrick Bryant's Amended Counterclaims and Third-Party Complaint, e-filed December 9, 2025, paragraphs 53 to 60, describing the February 10, 2025 phone call from Alexis Berg to Erin Gunther Paragraphs 53-60 of Bryant's Amended Counterclaims and Third-Party Complaint (e-filed Dec. 9, 2025), describing the call. These are Bryant's allegations; Berg disputes his characterization, and the underlying claims remain contested and unproven.

What Berg's counsel told the court

Bryant's December 4, 2025 Motion to Dismiss with Request for Sanctions quotes the transcripts of two open-court hearings in which Berg's own counsel addressed the call. According to that public filing:

  • At the September 30, 2025 hearing, counsel for Berg "admitted to the Court that Berg had called Gunther to warn her about working at ADW," and that the reason was "because Ms. Gunther held the same position [at ADW] that [Berg] held." (Sept. 30, 2025 Hr'g Tr. 12:22-25.)
  • At the October 14, 2025 hearing, Berg's counsel stated that "[Berg] warned a co-worker that she was assaulted and Assignment Desk Work[s] isn't safe." (Oct. 14, 2025 Hr'g Tr.)

These are characterizations by counsel as recorded in a public motion; the hearing transcripts themselves are referenced as exhibits to that motion.

The recording itself is not public

The audio recording and its transcript exist, but they are litigation discovery material, not public records.

  • ADW (Bryant's side) holds Gunther's recording and produced it only in discovery, to Berg. In its discovery responses, ADW stated it would "produce a copy of the recording and transcript of the February 12, 2025 call," noting "[t]he recording provided is the complete recording made by Erin Gunther." ADW separately objected to producing Gunther's phone records, pay records, and similar items as "private information regarding a non-party" that "should not be made available for public consumption."
  • Berg's counsel subpoenaed Gunther and obtained responsive documents, but has withheld production pending a protective order. In a December 16, 2025 email reproduced in the public record, Berg's attorney Marybeth Mullaney wrote: "I have received responsive documents from Erin Gunther pursuant to my subpoena. I am prepared to produce these materials upon entry of an appropriate confidentiality order," adding that "[g]iven the sensitive nature of these materials," safeguards were needed so they are "not disclosed to third parties or media outlets."
  • There is an unresolved fight over that confidentiality order. Bryant opposed a blanket confidentiality designation in his December 22, 2025 Response and Opposition to the Motion for a Confidentiality Order (hosted below). That dispute is why no public copy of the audio or full transcript exists.

Consistent with that posture, this page does not host or transcribe the recording. It catalogs only what is already on the public record.

A note on the date

Bryant's pleadings date the call February 10, 2025. The discovery requests in the companion ADW v. Berg case (No. 2025-CP-10-02671) refer to a February 12, 2025 call. The two-day discrepancy appears in the filings themselves and is noted here for accuracy; the parties agree a single recorded call took place in mid-February 2025.

Documents on the record (public court filings hosted here)

Sources & related coverage

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