Moment reporter asks JP Miller if he ever abused wife Mica was left out of Netflix doc

Warning: This article contains discussion of domestic abuse and suicide which some readers may find distressing

JP Miller’s alleged abuse of his wife Mica has come to the fore once again after a Netflix documentary has gone viral.

In the first interview he gave after Mica’s death by suicide JP burst into tears before the first question was even asked, claiming that he was emotional at the idea he would finally get to give his side of events.

Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife covers Mica’s allegations that JP abused her through coercive control and cyberstalking, claims that JP denies. He was later arrested for cyberstalking, pleading not guilty.

The Netflix doc features numerous interviews with Mica’s family and a number of her friends from the church, but it is limited to just three episodes and so cannot cover everything.

The true crime series leaves out JP’s criminal past in which he hit a woman with his car but later had his record expunged, but this isn’t the only major part of the case Netlfix did not cover.

They include the clip of JP bursting into tears at the start of his interview with NewsNation’s Rich McHugh, along with him calling a question of why he felt the need to hold a sermon the next day ‘a great question’. What they didn’t include however, was McHugh asking JP is he ever abused his wife.

JP outright denied that he had ever abused her, and explained his ‘apology letter’

The pastor was quick in his response to the question, telling McHugh: “Never. Not once in any way, shape or form.”

He claimed that he took ‘better care than anybody could ever take care’, adding: “I never asked her to clean the house, not once in seven years of marriage, she never had to work, she was never harmed in any physical way.”

McHugh asked however about an ‘apology letter’ he wrote to Mica in which he said sorry for putting razor blades in her tires, tracking her, and posting a naked photo of her online.

The pastor admitted that he ‘100% wrote the letter’ but claimed Mica didn’t want to take her medication and had said she would only agree to take her meds if he gave her $10,000 and an apology letter.

He admitted to hiring a private investigator but denied the other admissions he made in the letter, stating that he did so in order to be alerted if she went to a gun store. He claimed however that he stopped paying weeks before she died by suicide using a gun she purchased the day of her death.

The FBI however alleged in their filings that this was not the truth and that he hired the PI to cyberstalk his wife to find out if she was cheating on him.

Reporter warned that Netflix’s new doc could influence JP’s upcoming trial

The pastor was indicted on charges of cyberstalking and making false statements, claims he denies and pled not guilty to.

According to Rich McHugh though the Netflix doc may cause issues for JP in the upcoming trial as the allegations may compel the authorities to ‘look harder’ at allegations mentioned I the doc.

Appearing on NewsNation he said: “They allege he threatened to harm her physically. He was forcing her to take drugs, committed her to hospitals without her permission.

“I know that there were certain things that they were looking at him for that are not included in the current charges that we’re seeing in federal court.”

JP will next appear in court on October 6, 2026 for a pre-trial conference after a sixth continuance was granted.

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