Keke Palmer’s ex-boyfriend Darius Jackson is alleging the actress subjected him to bodily and verbal abuse in his response to her request for the home violence restraining order that she filed in opposition to him.
As beforehand reported by Face2Face Africa, Palmer in paperwork filed in a Los Angeles court docket on November 9 claimed that Jackson bodily attacked her on a number of events. She additionally cited the cases the place Jackson allegedly abused her bodily and emotionally, claiming that it occurred over two years.
The Akeelah and the Bee star was in the end granted a brief restraining order in opposition to Jackson. She was additionally granted momentary sole custody of their 9-month-old son Leodis.
However in his response to the 30-year-old’s request for the home violence restraining order in opposition to him, Jackson claimed Palmer was relatively “the first aggressor” after they had been collectively, court docket paperwork filed on Friday acknowledged, per PEOPLE.
The 29-year-old additionally highlighted a number of events the place Palmer “engaged in abusive conduct in the course of the two-and-a-half-year relationship.” Jackson additionally alleged the Nope actress was bodily and verbally abusive in direction of him.
Jackson cited a number of events the place Palmer allegedly punched, choked, and hit him. In a single such occasion, he claimed Plamer in November 2021 “referred to as him over 200 occasions and despatched him over 50 emails” when he “advised her he wouldn’t spend the night time along with her.”
The 29-year-old additional claimed that in March 2022, he modified his telephone quantity to forestall Palmer from “additional” harassing and threatening him. He additionally alleged Palmer “incessantly grew to become agitated and aggressive after consuming alcohol.”
Palmer in her submitting had claimed that on November 5, Jackson “trespassed” into her residence with out “my data or consent, threatened me, then bodily attacked me — lunging for my neck, putting me, throwing me over the sofa, and stealing my telephone after I advised him I used to be going to name the police.”
However Jackson in his response alleged that the video Palmer offered was “deceptive”, PEOPLE reported. He additionally alleged Palmer was relatively the “main aggressor” due to her previous conduct and requested for “stay-away and no-contact orders.”
Jackson within the paperwork requested the court docket to grant him “joint authorized and bodily custody” of their son, claiming that Palmer has since “unilaterally eradicated any and all entry” to their little one.
Palmer and Jackson’s court docket date was initially scheduled for December 5. However they postponed it to “enable the events time to attend mediation,” paperwork acknowledged, per PEOPLE. A supply who is aware of Palmer advised the information outlet that the 30-year-old “agreed to mediation as a result of the case has gotten a lot hypothesis and media consideration, and he or she is anxious about her privateness, Leo’s privateness, and the privateness of her household.”
“Keke will proceed to guard her security and the security of Leo above all else,” the supply stated.
