Ashleigh Messervy
Ashleigh Messervy is a South Carolina journalist and former girlfriend of Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit describes an August 2024 meeting at which she says Rep. Nancy Mace told her 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone' and recounted a series of unproven allegations about Bryant.
Ashleigh Messervy is a South Carolina journalist and a former girlfriend of Patrick Bryant, who dated him before his relationship with Rep. Nancy Mace. In her own sworn affidavit, Messervy describes being contacted by Mace in late August 2024 and meeting with her the next day for what she says became an unsolicited account of allegations against Bryant, a meeting at which, she swears, Mace stated: "I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone."
The affidavit
Messervy executed the sworn affidavit below before a South Carolina notary on June 30, 2025. The only redaction is paragraph 16, an allegation concerning a minor child, which has been blacked out to protect the minor; nothing else has been altered. The full document is available here.
Page 1, Messervy states she has known Patrick Bryant about nine years, that she had no prior relationship with Mace, and that Mace contacted her by phone and text on August 27, 2024, having obtained her number through a mutual contact at WCBD News 2, saying she had images and information about Bryant she wanted to share.
Page 2, the August 28, 2024 meeting at The Dime on Daniel Island: Messervy swears Mace showed her an envelope of photographs, said she had obtained them from Bryant's phone, and, explaining she "used to be a 'programmer'", stated, "I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone." Messervy attests Mace declined to name any alleged victim or witness who could corroborate the claims.
Page 3, allegations Messervy attributes to Mace, including images Mace said came from Bryant's Isle of Palms condominium, of which Messervy attests "none of these women are identifiable in the photos." Paragraph 16, an allegation concerning a minor child, is redacted.
Page 4, further allegations Messervy attributes to Mace, her statement that she believed the meeting's purpose "was to attempt to sway me to assist her," and the start of the text messages Messervy says Mace sent her afterward.
Page 5, the text exchange Messervy reproduces, including her question "So how do we know they were raped?" and Mace's reply, "Because they recorded it and I found the recordings … allegedly …"; Messervy also attests she gave an oral statement to SLED on November 13, 2024.
Page 6, Messervy's signature over "Ashleigh Messervy," subscribed and sworn before a South Carolina notary public on June 30, 2025.
Connection to the Nancy Mace record
The meeting (August 28, 2024). According to her sworn affidavit, Mace telephoned and texted Messervy on August 27, 2024, having obtained Messervy's number, Messervy says, through a mutual contact at the Charleston television station WCBD News 2, and the two met the following morning at The Dime, a restaurant on Daniel Island, South Carolina. Messervy swears she initially believed the outreach concerned business, but that Mace quickly turned to a series of allegations about Bryant.
During that meeting, Messervy attests, Mace produced an envelope of photographs, said she had obtained them from Bryant's phone, and, after stating she "used to be a 'programmer'", said: "I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone." Messervy swears Mace then recounted a series of unproven allegations against Bryant, declined to name any alleged victim or witness who could corroborate them, and said any evidence she had gathered had been turned over to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED). Of the images Mace showed her, Messervy attests that "none of these women are identifiable in the photos."
Messervy further attests that, after the meeting, Mace continued to message her by text, writing among other things that Messervy had "a right to know" whether she had been "recorded on one of the four devices he used to record women without their knowledge … (Allegedly, for legal purposes)." In one exchange Messervy reproduces, she asked, "So how do we know they were raped?", to which, she swears, Mace replied, "Because they recorded it and I found the recordings … allegedly …" Messervy states she gave an oral statement to SLED on November 13, 2024, and has not communicated with Mace about the allegations since.
How it entered the record. Messervy's affidavit and contemporaneous notes were provided to Bryant's counsel and produced in discovery in GLT2, LLC v. Jane Doe and John Doe (No. 2025-CP-10-00981, Charleston County Court of Common Pleas); the affidavit is also among the witness materials referenced in publicly filed opposition briefing in Musgrave v. Mace (D.S.C.) as evidence that Mace's August 2024 conduct was personal rather than official.
The statements above are Messervy's own sworn allegations about what Mace told her. Rep. Mace has denied wrongdoing and has maintained that her conduct was undertaken in her official capacity as a Member of Congress; the scope-of-employment question is contested and, as of this entry, unadjudicated. No court has made any finding of fact based on the affidavit, and the related litigation remains pending.
Sources
- The affidavit itself: Sworn Affidavit of Ashleigh Messervy (June 30, 2025, redacted, PDF, 6 pages), the only redaction is paragraph 16, which concerns a minor child. Produced in discovery in GLT2, LLC v. Jane Doe and John Doe (No. 2025-CP-10-00981, Charleston County Court of Common Pleas) and referenced in publicly filed briefing in Musgrave v. Mace (D.S.C., No. 2:25-cv-01823-RMG).
- Litigation Overview
- Brian Musgrave