ALERT MINI-ME Sex Tape Drama; Verne Troyer ‘tells all’; Felt Betrayed by Ranae Shrider

From E! Online

“I feel like I have no privacy. Just because people are seeing something that was meant to be between me and her. That’s the biggest reason that I’m, you know, trying to stop the tape from being released.”

The diminutive actor says he feels “betrayed and hurt” by the release of the tape, and he denies all involvement in its release. Troyer and his attorney, Edwin McPherson, succeeded last week in upholding an injunction to prevent the sale of the tape while they try to shelve the issue entirely.

“I’ve been, for the past two weeks, three weeks probably, spending a lot of money to fight this. I have my lawyer and he’s doing a great job,” Troyer said.

According to Troyer, the couple had been dating about six months when the actor decided he wanted to break up with Shrider. He says this is what motivated her to give the footage to the website TMZ.

“I broke up with her in the middle of June; it was something probably to do with that. It was basically when she decided to give the tape away. I highly doubt that she thought that would get me back with her. Ransom or something,” Troyer said.

And what of claims made by Shrider, like that she nearly drowned the Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me star in a romantic bubble bath?

“There’s no incident like that. She’s coming up with things and telling media anything to make it interesting. I haven’t seen everything she’s done…The things she says just aren’t true,” he adds.

Must be awkward, then, considering the former couple still live together.

“She’s still in the house,” Troyer says, noting that he’s taking legal action to force her out, but their situation “makes it even harder, to, you know, not strangle her.”

According to the actor, his brunette ex has been taunting him.

“I saw her when I left today and she was calling me names and stuff. Uh, so I can’t get away from it,” he said, choking back tears.

Troyer says friends, family and attorney are helping him pull through the mess, but that the embarrassment “has already started affecting [work opportunities].”