Richards’ submitting cites pictures and textual content messages as proof. One photograph from March 26, 2020, allegedly exhibits a bruise she sustained when Phypers “pulled her off a chair by her legs”.
One other, from June 2023, seems to point out bruises on her arm taken whereas attending a red-carpet occasion. Richards additionally submitted alleged textual content messages, together with one she despatched to Phypers’ mom in January 2023 concerning the alleged abuse.
Different texts reportedly describe Phypers threatening to drive off a cliff, making threats involving firearms, and, in a single June 2025 message, Richards telling him he had “prompted an issue to her implant”.
Richards went on to allege in her restraining order petition that Phypers would “continuously violently choke me, violently squeeze my head with each fingers, tightly squeeze my arms, violently slap me in my face and head, aggressively slam my head into the lavatory towel rack, threaten to kill me, maintain me down together with his knee on my again to the purpose the place I must plead with him to get off me in order that he wouldn’t kill me.”