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Earlier this week, we confirmed that Jaime King had misplaced main custody of her youngsters to ex-husband Kyle Newman.
Now, new data pertaining to this unlucky state of affairs has come to mild.
In a authorized declaration filed by Newman approach again in Could 2020 as a part of the ex-couple’s divorce proceedings, he said that his then-wife was a “chronic drug addict and alcoholic who refuses to acknowledge that she has a problem, let alone seek meaningful treatment for such problem.”
Primarily based on paperwork obtained by In Contact Weekly, Newman even mentioned King had drank and brought medication whereas pregnant.
Newman’s five-year outdated submitting learn as follows:
“Jaime has spent the past decade high. Jaime abused opiates before the children were born, continued to abuse drugs and alcohol throughout her pregnancies … driving under the influence with them in the car, becoming so intoxicated in front of them that they thought their mother was dying and abandoning them for days at a time to get drunk and high instead of care for them.”
This story has gone particularly viral, we should always notice, as a result of Taylor Swift is the godmother to certainly one of King’s sons.
Newman additionally accused King of “infidelities” that he blamed on the drug use and added on this submitting:
“I have done everything I can think of to try and get her well so she can be the mother to our children that I know she can be, including interventions, working with her doctors to wean her off opiates, and trying to convince her to get into rehab many, many times”
There’s extra, too, as simply found and revealed by the aforementioned tabloid.
“I have spent years worrying about Jaime killing herself by overdosing, drinking herself to death, starving herself, passing out drunk or high somewhere and getting hurt, raped, or murdered, or killing herself or others with her erratic and intoxicated driving,” Newman wrote.
“Since the birth of our children, I have struggled more and more with trying to balance helping Jaime and protecting the kids.”
Newman alleges that he and the actress had many conversations about her opiate abuse, however that she frequently lied to him and saved taking these drugs even when 20-plus weeks pregnant with their second youngster.
“As a result, he claims, the baby was born with a “congenital heart defect [that] would need surgery to survive as soon as he was born.”
After giving beginning to this child, Newman wrote that his former partner wouldn’t “remember conversations” and that her psychological state continued to deteriorate.
He continued alongside these traces, stating of NewmanL
“She had stopped consuming and had misplaced a scary quantity of weight. Jaime would exit to ‘business dinners’ at 8 p.m. and never come residence till after 5 a.m., refusing to reply any texts or calls. When she did come residence, she was often drunk or hung over or excessive or strung out.
“She would be confrontational with me, often getting physical.”
As a result of newest ruling, King is entitled to a few supervised visits along with her children per week for now. Nothing extra.
She has been ordered to finish a a six-month drug/alcohol program with weekly testing, together with a 26-week parenting program and counseling, earlier than this may be amended.
Beforehand, her lawyer responded to a lot of Newman’s claims by telling In Contact:
“The allegations in opposition to Jaime are completely false and supposed to trigger her hurt and garner damaging media consideration.
“It’s unlucky that Mr. Newman continues to make the most of the court docket in try and proceed … the submitting of unfounded malicious claims and to make use of the kids as weapons and pawns with out regard to their privateness.
“Jaime is intent and solely focused on a peaceful and harmonious coparenting process and her utmost priority is the happiness, health, and well-being of their children.”
