Home Uncategorized A FORMER CHURCH MEMBER JUST MADE ONE OF THE MOST DISTURBING CLAIMS YET ABOUT MICA MILLER’S MARRIAGE The story around Mica Miller was already heartbreaking. But now, someone who says she knew Mica closely is speaking out with allegations that go far beyond a troubled relationship. She claims there was control, fear and pressure behind closed doors — the kind of details that make viewers look back at the Netflix series with a very different feeling. John-Paul Miller has denied abuse allegations through his attorney. But this new account is now raising even more questions about what Mica was living through before her death.

A FORMER CHURCH MEMBER JUST MADE ONE OF THE MOST DISTURBING CLAIMS YET ABOUT MICA MILLER’S MARRIAGE The story around Mica Miller was already heartbreaking. But now, someone who says she knew Mica closely is speaking out with allegations that go far beyond a troubled relationship. She claims there was control, fear and pressure behind closed doors — the kind of details that make viewers look back at the Netflix series with a very different feeling. John-Paul Miller has denied abuse allegations through his attorney. But this new account is now raising even more questions about what Mica was living through before her death.

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Former Church Member Claims Pastor John-Paul Miller Was Using His Wife Mica Miller ‘for Sex’

“It was sexual and mental abuse he was putting Mica through,” alleges Bruna Pabon, a former church member and good friend of the pastor’s late wife Mica Miller

Mica MillerThe congregation at Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, S.C., was often reminded by their dynamic pastor, John-Paul “JP” Miller, to resist temptation—and to keep their sex lives active. “Do not refuse sex to each other,” JP, 47, urged in one sermon. “Then Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”

Bruna Pabon, a former church member and a good friend of the pastor’s wife, Mica Miller, 30, was convinced he was speaking most of all to his own spouse. “It was sexual and mental abuse he was putting Mica through,” alleges Pabon, 34. “He wouldn’t let her sleep. He would splash water on her face and pull off the covers. She couldn’t take a trip because he couldn’t go two days without getting physical. He was basically using her for sex. That was the whole marriage.”

JP’s attorney Russell Long did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s inquiry regarding Pabon’s allegations.

In the hit Netflix docuseries Death of the Pastor’s Wife, former followers claim JP harassed Mica for sex, demanded obedience in their marriage and even forced her to be admitted to a mental hospital when she refused to comply—an alleged yearslong campaign of fear and intimidation seen in text messages and Ring camera footage.

Photo of John-Paul Miller and his ex wife Mica.
John-Paul Miller and Mica Miller in an undated selfie.

At one point, after Mica moved out and was living with friends or at secret locations, JP appealed to the congregation for help: “I need you to pray that [Mica] will hit rock bottom so that she can come to her senses. Sometimes people need to lose everything. Y’all know that she’s mentally ill, and the stuff that she’s doing is not her. She’s in and out of psychosis.”

Mica, who grew up in Wichita, Kan., before moving with her family to Myrtle Beach, met JP when she joined the church where he was a worship leader. She was 13; he was 28. Mica was 21 and married to someone else when JP, who was also married, announced to the congregation in 2015 that the couple were romantically involved. After getting divorces, they married in 2017.

Death of the Pastor's Wife
Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, S.C.NETFLIX

Pabon says Mica initially strove to be an obedient wife—until a growing sense of self-respect and independence put her on a collision course with her outspoken pastor-husband.

Finally, on April 27, 2024— two days after she filed for a divorce—Mica, who was seen on security video buying a gun that day, was found dead from what authorities determined was a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a state park in North Carolina.

Death of the Pastor's Wife: Season 1. (L-R) Destinee Barrientos, Nate Francis, Mica Miller, Sierra Francis, Anna Francis, and Abigail Francis in Death of the Pastor's Wife: Season 1.
Mica with her siblings. From left: Destinee Barrientos, Nate Francis, Mica, Sierra Francis, Anna Francis and Abigail Francis.NETFLIX

Although the death was ruled a suicide—and JP was some 140 miles away in Charleston, S.C.—former members of his flock believe he was somehow to blame.

Says Kenn Young, 50: “Even if she did unalive herself and JP forced her into that [place] where she just couldn’t handle it, it’s still his fault.”

Death of the Pastor's Wife: Season 1. John-Paul Miller in Death of the Pastor's Wife: Season 1.
John-Paul Miller in Netflix’s “Death of the Pastor’s Wife.”.NETFLIX

Although JP has never been charged with involvement in his wife’s death, on Dec. 17, 2025, he was indicted on federal cyberstalking and false statement charges for allegedly interfering with Mica’s finances, damaging her tires, placing tracking devices on her car and posting a nude photo of her. He has pleaded not guilty.

Mica Miller and John Paul Miller on their wedding day.
Mica Miller and John-Paul Miller on their wedding day in 2017.Netflix

“Our client refutes any report that suggests he ever abused his wife,” Long, JP’s attorney, said in a statement in 2024.

In Myrtle Beach, Mica’s loved ones continue to push for “Mica’s Law,” a proposed South Carolina measure that would make coercive control by a spouse a criminal offense and expand the state’s definition of domestic violence. “The police weren’t able to do a single thing for Mica,” says her sister Anna Francis, 29, in the doc. “That’s why ‘Mica’s Law’ is so important to us as a family.”

 

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