Issues grew to become much more heated when Newman filed new paperwork in September 2020, during which he claimed King “emptied and closed” their joint financial institution accounts. In consequence, he requested the court docket to have his estranged spouse pay for all his authorized charges.
Along with asking for monetary reimbursement, he disclosed he was their children’ major caregiver, and that King was “not often alone with the youngsters” due to her alleged historical past of substance abuse.
“I don’t recall her ever taking them wherever by herself – there has all the time been a nanny, godparent‚ somebody to oversee and assist her,” he shared within the authorized paperwork. “By 2015, it grew to become evident to me that Jaime was not able to taking good care of the youngsters – she merely didn’t have the schools or means to deal with them given her substance abuse points.”
Newman requested sole bodily custody of their kids in a separate November 2020 submitting.
King responded in a movement, writing, “In February of 2020, [Newman] tried to wreak havoc with my skilled life. [He] referred to as not less than one of many executives on Black Summer time after midnight, demanding details about me. [He] had a 3rd occasion name numerous individuals who labored on the present, demanding that some motion be taken earlier than I ‘killed myself’ with medication or alcohol.
“Nobody on set believed that I had a difficulty, as a result of I didn’t (and don’t.) In actual fact, I used to be on set on time day by day, and all the time skilled.”