In case you’re not familiar with Keshia Knight Pulliam’s drama with her ex, here’s a quick recap. Keshia, 38, is best known as the child actress who played Rudy on The Cosby Show. In late July she announced that she was pregnant by her husband of seven months, a former NFL linebacker named Ed Hartwell. Right after Keshia announced her pregnancy, Ed blindsided her with divorce papers and issued a statement that the baby was not planned for and that he was unsure about the paternity. Keshia granted an interview to ET in which she said that Ed was the one who had cheated on her and begged her for another chance and that she was certain the baby was his. According to Keshia, Ed acted like everything was fine on the day he left and then informed her by text that he was divorcing her. Ed of course fired back at Keshia and claimed that she told “a half truth” about their relationship and that he had made it clear to her that he did not want a baby. He did not deny cheating on her but talked around it.
In a new court filing in which she requests a restraining order against Ed, Keshia states that Ed has been emotionally abusive and somehow intended to cause her to miscarry their baby. (I don’t have access to the court filings and am going by “>Us, People and TMZ’s reporting, which words this part vaguely. It sounds like she’s implying that his emotional abuse was meant to cause harm to her and the baby.) Keshia’s filing also requests that Ed turn in the guns he has in both their names and states that he has not yet taken the paternity test he initially insisted on. Of course Ed denies almost every point of Keshia’s and tries to turn it around on her, which makes me believe her even more.
In a response filed Wednesday to the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, Hartwell “emphatically denies” that he “engaged in certain underhanded and unusual conduct” that Pulliam alleges “believes to be designed … to miscarry her unborn child.”
Hartwell’s response states that Pulliam, 37, “should be ashamed of herself for ever making such false and offensive allegations.”
The 38-year-old former NFL linebacker also “denies there is a need for a restraining order keeping him away” from Pulliam and her home.
Pulliam, who is pregnant with the couple’s unborn daughter, alleges in court documents filed Aug. 9 that her estranged husband is “currently engaged in an adulterous relationship” and “surreptitiously maintained this adulterous relationship with his paramour, Tonya Jean Carroll.”
In Wednesday’s filing, Hartwell “emphatically denies the allegations of adultery” during the marriage and claims that “he is not involved in a relationship with anyone,” including Carroll.
Though the former Cosby Show child actor requested a paternity test from Hartwell after she alleged in the Aug. 9 docs that he “deliberately neglected to acknowledge” that the couple is expecting their first child, Hartwell states in his response that “he has always been willing to voluntarily submit to paternity testing.”
He explained in the court documents that he is waiting to take a paternity test until after the child is born because prenatal testing “could possibly endanger the life of the unborn child.”
Pulliam also alleges that her ex “has been mentally and emotionally abusive” and “has willfully engaged in such cruel treatment which has affected the health and welfare.”
The expectant mother claims that Hartwell’s “mental state … should be questioned due to his violent and erratic behavior and actions” and that he “should be immediately ordered to submit to a psychological evaluation.”
In the docs, she claims she “was forced to live on egg shells in the former marital home due to [Hartwell]’s deep-seated rage and uncontrollable anger.”
In Hartwell’s response, the athlete denies the claims and states in the documents, “If either party has been mentally and emotionally abusive toward the other, it is [Pulliam].”
The Kandidly Keshia host also claims in the documents that her ex is “in possession of firearms” that are registered under her name and requests that he “be ordered to immediately remove [Pulliam]’s name from the registration/title of any firearms, or, in the alternative, turnover said firearms to Respondent at a local police department.”
Hartwell admits in his response that “he is only in possession of his own firearms” but denies that he has any firearms in his possession that are registered under Pulliam’s name.
Ed’s entire defense has been “I know you are but what am I?” In this response, the section about guns doesn’t make complete sense. So he’s admitting he has guns but says that they’re not under Keshia’s name so he’s not going to turn them over? Also, he accused her of cheating on him to get pregnant and he sounds jealous and possessive, but somehow she’s the one who is emotionally abusive. Yeah, right. So far Keshia has been much more convincing than Ed. I hope she is ok and that she has people around her to keep her safe.
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