Actress Keke Palmer on Thursday filed for a home violence restraining order in opposition to her ex-boyfriend Darius Jackson, alleging that he bodily attacked her on a number of events, PEOPLE reported. The 30-year-old can also be in search of full custody of their 8-month-old son.
Within the paperwork that have been filed in a Los Angeles courtroom, the Akeelah and the Bee actress cited situations the place Jackson was allegedly emotionally and bodily abusive, claiming that it occurred over two years.
She cited an incident on Sunday, claiming that, “Darius trespassed into my dwelling with out my data or consent, threatened me, then bodily attacked me — lunging for my neck, hanging me, throwing me over the sofa, and stealing my cellphone after I informed him I used to be going to name the police.”
Palmer additionally reportedly added screenshots of what regarded like safety footage exhibiting a girl being hit by a person. She claimed that Jackson had made his solution to her dwelling to take their son to a soccer recreation. However their youngster wasn’t round as a result of Palmer’s sister had taken the infant out on a household go to.
Palmer claimed that they had an argument earlier than Jackson “knocked me backwards over the sofa, stole my cellphone out of my fingers, after which ran out of the home.” Palmer additionally claimed every little thing that transpired was “captured by my dwelling safety digicam, which shall be performed for the Court docket on the time of the listening to.”
Palmer accused Jackson of practically hitting her together with his automobile after she adopted Jackson exterior to get her cellphone again, PEOPLE reported.
The 30-year-old cited one other incident, alleging that “dwelling safety footage [from] February 13, 2022” confirmed Jackson “physique slammed me onto the steps by my neck.” In one other incident in April final 12 months, Palmer claimed Jackson obtained offended whereas they have been at a Santa Barbara restaurant after he accused her of flirting with a girl. Palmer stated she and Jackson left the institution early and returned to their resort because of this.
Elsewhere within the submitting, Palmer claimed there have been “many situations of bodily violence, together with hanging and grabbing me across the neck, descriptions of Darius destroying my private property, together with diaries and prescription eyeglasses, throwing my belongings into the road, throwing my automobile keys to stop me from driving away, hitting my in entrance of our son, spewing profanities about me to our son, threatening to kill himself with a gun if I left him, harassment, and different bodily and emotional abuse.”
Palmer accused Jackson of being manipulative, including that he would “love bomb” her. “The abuse throughout our relationship was not simply bodily, however emotional and manipulative,” she claimed within the submitting.
“Darius would ‘love bomb’ me and make me really feel like I used to be an important girl on the earth, solely to get extraordinarily distant and chilly over a perceived insult to him. If we have been at a celebration or occasion, and I spoke with one particular person too lengthy or checked out somebody a ‘sure method’, he would storm off in a rage – telling me I used to be ‘slut’ and a ‘whore,’ accuse me of dishonest on him, and that I didn’t love him. Darius had a method of gaslighting me to make me really feel like I used to be doing one thing mistaken regardless that I wasn’t.”
Palmer’s submitting for the restraining order comes after Jackson made the information throughout X (previously Twitter) in July after he registered his displeasure over a revealing gown Palmer wore to Usher’s Las Vegas residency present.
“We stay in a technology the place a person of the household doesn’t need the spouse & mom to his youngsters to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he will get informed how a lot of a hater he’s,” the health teacher wrote within the since-deleted put up. “That is my household & my illustration. I’ve requirements & morals to what I imagine. I relaxation my case.”
