What Happened to J.D. Madison on Southern Charm? What We Know

Madison began to drift away from the series after he revealed that he and his wife Liz had separated. Over the first part of the series, he was generally well-liked among the cast on the show, but that began to change after it was suspected that his cheating was the reason the marriage had ended. In speaking with Bravo’s The Daily Dish, he said that the couple split up for other reasons.

“Over the last few years, whether it was from lifestyle differences, demanding work hours, high levels of stress, or the demands of marriage, we had grown apart,” Madison explained back in 2018. Although the separation was the beginning of his trouble, it wasn’t the end.

Like fellow Southern Charm personality Thomas Ravenel, Madison was accused of sexual assault in 2017. A woman named Susan Johnson claimed that Madison had drugged her and then sexually assaulted her. She claimed that Madison had slipped something into her drink, and then she then felt ill and passed out. When she woke up, she reportedly found that she was being assaulted by Madison.

Five months after she made the initial allegation, Johnson was charged with filing a false police report. In a statement to People, her attorney said that Johnson was not guilty.

“Susan is going to fight this unfair, unfounded charge,” the statement said. “She was severely intoxicated on the night in question and so naturally there are some inconsistencies in her recollection. Such inconsistencies do not make her a liar, and they certainly do not make her a criminal.”