Jaime King Accused of Alcohol, Drug Use Whereas Pregnant by Ex-Husband

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Earlier this week, we confirmed that Jaime King had misplaced major custody of her youngsters to ex-husband Kyle Newman.

Now, new info pertaining to this unlucky state of affairs has come to gentle.

In a authorized declaration filed by Newman means again in Might 2020 as a part of the ex-couple’s divorce proceedings, he acknowledged that his then-wife was a “persistent drug addict and alcoholic who refuses to acknowledge that she has an issue, not to mention search significant therapy for such downside.”

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Newman’s five-year outdated submitting learn as follows: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 previous decade excessive. Jaime abused opiates earlier than the kids had been born, continued to abuse medication and alcohol all through her pregnancies … driving below the affect with them within the automotive, changing into so intoxicated in entrance of them that they thought their mom was dying and abandoning them for days at a time to get drunk and excessive as a substitute of look after them.”

This story has gone particularly viral, we must always observe, as a result of Taylor Swift is the godmother to one among King’s sons.

Newman additionally accused King of “infidelities” that he blamed on the drug use and added on this submitting:

“I’ve carried out every part I can consider to attempt to get her nicely so she will be the mom to our kids that I do know she will be, together with interventions, working along with her medical doctors to wean her off opiates, and attempting to persuade her to get into rehab many, many occasions”

There’s extra, too, as simply found and revealed by the aforementioned tabloid.

“I’ve spent years worrying about Jaime killing herself by overdosing, ingesting herself to dying, ravenous herself, passing out drunk or excessive someplace and getting damage, raped, or murdered, or killing herself or others along with her erratic and intoxicated driving,” Newman wrote.

“Because the beginning of our kids, I’ve struggled increasingly with attempting to stability serving to Jaime and defending the youngsters.”

Newman alleges that he and the actress had many conversations about her opiate abuse, however that she frequently lied to him and stored taking these capsules even when 20-plus weeks pregnant with their second baby.

“Because of this, he claims, the infant was born with a “congenital coronary heart defect [that] would want surgical procedure to outlive as quickly as he was born.”

After giving beginning to this child, Newman wrote that his former partner wouldn’t “bear in mind 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 ‘enterprise dinners’ at 8 p.m. and never come house till after 5 a.m., refusing to reply any texts or calls. When she did come house, she was continuously drunk or hung over or excessive or strung out.

“She could be confrontational with me, typically getting bodily.”

Because of the newest ruling, King is entitled to a few supervised visits along with her youngsters 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 legal professional responded to lots of Newman’s claims by telling In Contact:

“The allegations towards Jaime are totally 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 courtroom in try to 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 targeted on a peaceable and harmonious coparenting course of and her utmost precedence is the happiness, well being, and well-being of their youngsters.”