Actor Verne Troyer is suing his ex, aspiring actress Ranae Shrider, alleging she beat him, TMZ.com reports.

In the lawsuit, Troyer who is 2'8" and weighs 40 pounds, accuses the 5'5" 110-pound Shrider of intentional infliction of emotional distress and battery.

The 39-year-old is asking for $20 million in damages.

"When you pick up a 2'8" human being and throw him to the floor, it hurts," Troyer's attorney, Ed McPherson, told TMZ.

Troyer feared for his safety and "did not want to go into his own home without having someone else accompanying him," according to the court documents.

The papers describe one instance in which "Shrider grabbed [Troyer] very forcefully by the arm, held him against his will, and did not let him get away from her."

Responding to Troyer's lawsuit Shrider released a statement late Thursday afternoon.

"This law suit is ridiculous and riddled with lie upon lie from Verne Troyer and his camp. It is in our opinion a transparent attempt to secure as much publicity as he can from his less then average career in the wake of his most recent failure in The Love Guru."

Troyer and Shrider made headlines in June, when she leaked a 25-second clip of their explicit sex tape onto the Internet.

"It's been hard," Troyer told Us Weekly in his first post-scandal interview. "I haven't done anything except stay in my house. The fact that I could be close to somebody and for them to do this is the biggest thing that gets me."

He said it was initially Shrider's idea to make the tape.

"I put all the trust in her," Troyer told Us. "She kept the tape in her camera on top of the closet where I couldn't even reach it!

"Hate is a good word," Troyer said when asked about Shrider. "The sad part is, I have a house and she's still renting one of the rooms. She won't leave. I'm trying to see if I can evict her."
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