San Diego Charges football player Shawne Merriman is suing Tila Tequila, citing that she lied and damaged his reputation. At the U.S. District Court, Merriman claimed that Tequila posted lies on her website about how he beat her up.

Tequila’s website claims that Merriman “choked and attacked her.” Tequila also claimed that Merriman “sleeps with minors and forces them to take drugs.” Merriman is not suing Tequila for defamation. Instead he is suing her for intentional interference with contract, trademark infringement, and unfair competition.

Shawne was arrested on September 6 and the case was dropped due to insufficient evidence.

Tila Tequila started off as a MySpace sensation and then made her way to her own TV show called A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila. Through her MySpace friends and her TV show fans, Tequila gained a large following which ended up becoming her Twitter followers too.

Tequila is suing Merriman for assault, battery, and false imprisonment during a fight at Merriman’s house. Tequila argues that Merriman argued with her over his drug use and disrespect towards women. Merriman claims that Tequila was drunk and he was trying to prevent her from driving. Tequila said that Merriman shook her like a “rag doll,” choked her, and threw her onto a couch.

Tequila said that being thrown against the couch caused damage to her neck, arms, and back. After the jump is a picture that Tequila is using in the court case that displays bruises to her body.

Tila Tequila, best known for her MTV show “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila” started her career as being a popular MySpace user.  She then transitioned into a power Twitter user.  She currently has over 242,000 followers on Twitter and has almost 4 million MySpace friends.

Tequila reported on her MySpace page that she was in San Diego, but she apparently called the police to inform them that NFL San Diego Charges player Shawne Merriman assaulted and choked her.  Merriman denied the claim. Tequila wrote on her Twitter profile “The truth will set you free…..God is with me” since the incident took place.

Tequila signed a citizen’s arrest and was later transferred to a hospital.  Merriman was taken into custody by the police based on suspicion of battery and false imprisonment.  Tila Tequila also known as Tila Nguyen reported on Sunday that she was home safe again.

Merriman’s lawyer Todd Macaluso said that Nguyen was “extremely intoxicated and inebriated” during the incident and that Merriman tried to arrange her to leave the house.  Since the incident, Tila has not been tweeting much.  Ian Corbin of CelebrityTweet said that he is not surprised because a legal team is probably telling her not to say much.