A woman recanted her claim that former Auburn running back Jovon Robinson physically assaulted her by smashing her head in a door, causing injuries to her knees, shoulder and face, later telling school officials she lied about the incident that factored into his dismissal from the football team, according to documents and interviews with AL.com.

Emails sent from the accuser, whose identity is being protected by AL.com, to Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn and between Auburn's football coach and the university's Title IX coordinator were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The accuser and Robinson also signed letters waiving their protections under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), granting AL.com exclusive access to the documents.

Robinson provided the accuser with a phone number to reach AL.com, which she first contacted on the evening of Aug. 5, two days after Malzahn dismissed Auburn's projected starting running back. Earlier that day, AL.com first reported Robinson was dismissed due to an incident with this woman and for being present when then-teammate Marshall Taylor suffered injuries at a small party in the Columbus, Georgia area earlier this summer, as well as less serious infractions like being late to class and meetings.

Robinson has denied wrongdoing in both incidents, neither of which were reported to police.

The accuser, who is a student at Auburn, told AL.com she was coming forward to "clear the air" about what happened between her and Robinson, who she characterized as a friend.

"I was upset with him because he didn't want me in his room," the accuser told AL.com. "We were just arguing."

She also provided AL.com with two voicemails left on her cell phone by Auburn's Title IX coordinator, Kelley Taylor, including one from the day she initially emailed Malzahn to report the alleged incident.

The accuser first emailed Malzahn at 5:56 a.m. on July 16 and claimed that at approximately 3 a.m. that morning she and Robinson "had a disagreement that turned physical."

According to the accuser's email, the disagreement between her and Robinson began when he "unintentionally broke my necklace, but proceeded to laugh about it and not apologize."

After requesting to be brought back to her dorm, to which she said Robinson refused, the young woman watched TV with Robinson in his room, she wrote in the email to Malzahn.

"After about (five) minutes, without being provoked in any way, he frantically gets up and shoves me out the door, not giving me a chance to gather my things before doing so (phone and keys)," the accuser wrote to Malzahn. "In the process to physically throw me out, Jovon managed to smash my head in the door and skin both of my knees on the hallway carpet. I now have two bloody knees, a bruised shoulder, and a knot above my eye.

"Although I have every reason to, I chose to not get the law involved; as I know how nasty things could get; especially for someone in his position. Therefore, I am trying to keep the situation as private as possible. With this being the second or third time an incident of this sort has happened with him, I believe that it is time he be held responsible for the way he has been acting toward not just me, but women in general. Although were [sic] are very close, as I said before, I will make sure to stay away from and not contact him."

As to the accusation of prior incidents with Robinson, the accuser told AL.com, "(I) never reported anything else to anyone. ... It was all made up. Nothing happened."

Robinson denied ever having a physical altercation altercation with any woman, telling AL.com, "I never will (have such a situation)."

From there, all actions by Auburn officials appear to have been conducted in full accordance with law and university procedure for handling Title IX complaints.

Less than three hours later, at 8:42 a.m. on July 16, Malzahn forwarded the accuser's email to Taylor.

"This is the first I have heard of any incident regarding Jovon and any female," Malzahn wrote.

Later that morning, Taylor called the accuser and left a message on her voicemail.

"I just wanted you to know coach (Malzahn) got your email and was very concerned but he did what he's required to do by Title IX, initially at least, which is report it to me," Taylor said on the voicemail to the accuser. "He's very anxious to take some precautionary steps but he can't really until I've checked in with you. ... I just wanted to know if you would have some time to talk either by phone or in person or something about what happened last night and make sure I can help you with any steps that might need to be taken to make sure he doesn't try to retaliate or anything like that - I'm talking about, Jovon."

The accuser repeatedly told AL.com there was no physical violence between her and Robinson, recanted her original claims and vehemently denied sexual violence of any kind took place.

"If it was anything like that I wouldn't have just went to the school," she said. "Nothing like that happened."

The accuser told AL.com she left Robinson's room on her own and later spoke with Taylor, who left a second voicemail for her on July 20 asking if she had anything else to add after speaking with Robinson.

Following his dismissal, sources close to Robinson told AL.com he admitted to lightly grabbing the accuser by the wrist and leading her out of his room.

However, Robinson maintains "nothing" happened on July 16 between himself and the accuser, who also told AL.com she left his room that night on her own.

"I didn't lead or grab her," Robinson told AL.com this week. "I followed to make sure my door was locked."

The accuser claims Taylor "wanted me to send her pictures.

"Me knowing that it wasn't true, I never did. They never saw any physical bruises on me" and the university "never had any hard evidence" to support her claims against Robinson, which she said she told Taylor were untrue.

"(Taylor) really wanted to make it a big deal, after I told her basically that I lied," the accuser told AL.com. "I can see her calling me one time after I said it, but two times and then a week later? That kind of made me wonder, why was she trying to do that?"

Taylor did not return multiple messages from AL.com, which visited the university's Title IX office on Aug. 9.

AL.com requested all email communication between the accuser, Malzahn and Taylor between July 1 and Aug. 5, but Taylor's only email correspondence with Malzahn during that time came on the morning the accuser's initial email was sent.

AL.com was unable to corroborate the accuser's account that she recanted to all parties involved in the matter until her second email to Malzahn, which was on the evening of Aug. 3, after Malzahn dismissed Robinson earlier that day.

Auburn athletics provided a statement to AL.com Thursday evening stating, "Jovon Robinson was dismissed for a number of incidents that occurred over the course of his time as a member of the Auburn football team. As a matter of practice and policy, we won't discuss the specifics of those incidents."

Malzahn declined to elaborate as to the details that went into the decision to dismiss Robinson, who was expected to be Auburn's starting running back and perhaps its best offensive skill player this season.

"He did not meet my standards or expectations of what it takes to be an Auburn Tiger football player," Malzahn said in his press conference following the team's first practice of fall camp. "We're going to have zero distractions on this team this year. I've given him his release and we wish him the best."

At 7:50 p.m. that evening, the accuser emailed Malzahn for a second time, telling him directly that she had lied about what happened between her and Robinson.

"I'm not sure if your decision today had anything to do with my situation a few weeks ago, but I just wanted you to know that I made up the entire thing simply because I was upset with Jovon at the time," the accuser wrote to Malzahn. "I haven't had any contact with him in the past few weeks but I do not think my lie should have costed him his spot on the team. Please consider changing your mind because I would really hate to see a person with so much potential lose his opportunity because of my silly fib. Jovon didn't do anything to me that night but ask me to leave his room and I was upset about that."

Malzahn forwarded that email to Taylor at 12:05 p.m. on Aug. 4, writing "Fyi" in the message.

While Auburn is coming off its worst rushing performance of Malzahn's head coaching career (87 yards) in a 19-13 loss to No. 2 Clemson, Robinson, who rushed for 639 yards rushing with three touchdowns in 2015, is still deciding on where he'll go next to continue his football career.

An erroneous report on Aug. 15 claimed the Memphis native was transferring to Division II Valdosta State, which he denied later that day and has proven untrue.

The former No. 1 junior college player in the country, Robinson has one season of college eligibility remaining or he could pursue a professional career.

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