Why Taylor Swift and Jaime King’s once-close friendship ‘suffered’ earlier than actress’s custody battle
Jaime King’s friendship with Taylor Swift has “suffered due to the non-public challenges” the actress has “confronted over the previous few years,” a supply completely tells Web page Six.
In response to our insider, the “Sin Metropolis” star and the Grammy winner “haven’t been in contact for a very long time” however tells us that King “misses Taylor” and hopes they’ll “reconnect sooner or later.”
“Jaime made Taylor her son’s godmother for a purpose and she or he needs to proceed that friendship,” the supply notes.
King, 45, and Swift, 35, turned inseparable after assembly at a 2014 Golden Globes celebration. Only one 12 months later, the “White Chicks” actress requested the pop star to be her son Leo’s godmother.
King’s now ex-husband, Kyle Newman, additionally directed Swift’s 2015 “Fashion” music video.
“She goes by a tough time proper now. Between being pressured to maneuver out of her rental house due to the lawsuit involving her former landlord, and her ex getting sole bodily custody of her boys, it’s all been very difficult,” the insider tells us.
Final month, a choose declared that Newman, 49, will have sole bodily custody of James, 11, and Leo, 9, on account of King’s failure to finish her rehabilitation program.
King will solely be allowed supervised visitation along with her boys thrice every week.
Her mom, Nancy King, sister, Sandi Larson, brother-in-law, Andy Larson, and Kyle’s brother, Kevin Newman, are named as mutually agreed upon supervisors for Jaime’s scheduled conferences which is able to proceed till ordered unsupervised by the Los Angeles household court docket.
The mannequin “is doing her greatest to remain optimistic and she or he is decided to achieve bodily custody again of her sons,” the supply tells us.
“However step one is working in the direction of unsupervised visits.”
“Jaime is so grateful she has a really supportive household. She’s grateful they’ve agreed to step up and be concerned on this custody state of affairs as a result of she couldn’t do it with out them.”
After virtually 13 years of marriage, King filed for divorce from Newman in 2020. She was granted a restraining order in opposition to the “Barely Deadly” director on the time.
Shortly after, Newman claimed King was a “power drug addict and alcoholic,”alleging she had abused opiates earlier than their two kids have been born and all through her pregnancies, leading to Leo “being born addicted” to medication.
In response to court docket docs filed in Might 2020, Newman additionally alleged that his and King’s associates had staged an intervention. Since then, the youngsters have remained of their father’s care and, most lately, Newman gained sole bodily custody of them.
