Jaime King Speaks Out After Ex-Husband Is Granted Full Custody of Youngsters

In an look on Jana Kramer’s Whine Down podcast this week, the Hart of Dixie actress bought emotional as she spoke out for the primary time about Newman being granted sole bodily custody of the pair’s sons — James, 11, and Leo, 9 — in March. On the time, she was reportedly given visitation — which needs to be supervised as a result of she hasn’t accomplished a 6-month drug and alcohol program.

“I’ve by no means talked about it,” King mentioned when Kramer introduced up her state of affairs on the brand new episode, saying a few of the claims towards her are “not true.”

“My responsibility as a mom is to guard my youngsters and that is all that issues to me. That is scary. Truthfully talking,” mentioned King, who introduced up how she married at a younger age. She was 28 when she married Newman in 2007.

“I did not know that the world works like this. I did not know authorized methods work like this,” she continued. “To not sound like some sort of neophyte, however I believed that while you selected to like somebody and you like that individual, you construct a household with them, you belief them and typically it isn’t all the time that manner.”

“I by no means wished my youngsters to suppose any a part of them was incorrect,” she mentioned of why she hasn’t spoken out prior to now. “The system is actually unfair. I feel it is necessary to assist the construction of household and kindness. Simply be type. Be type and inform the reality.”

Talking extra in regards to the authorized system, King mentioned it is “terrifying” that “to have the ability to be free signifies that it’s a must to pay a really excessive worth. I do not simply imply financially. It’s totally upsetting and I’ll do the whole lot in my energy to alter the system.”

“I am scared. I am nonetheless scared,” she added.

Calling the continued battle “disgusting,” “disturbing” and “not logical or sensible in any respect,” King mentioned she did not perceive how she might be labeled an “unfit” mom whereas nonetheless being deemed match sufficient to “present for the kids” and go to work every single day.

“How are you match when your whole marriage … I paid for the whole lot,” she claimed. “I used to be proud, I am all the time proud to be the person who, or an individual that has earned the whole lot that I’ve. That issues to me.”

When requested about her sobriety by Kramer, King additionally mentioned she’s “by no means had to think about myself as sober or not sober” as a result of she “stopped utilizing medicine once I was 17 or one thing.”

King has been very open about utilizing medicine — together with heroin — in her teen years. Kramer mentioned it appeared, to her, like Newman was utilizing tales from King’s youth towards her now.

“That is precisely what occurred. That is exactly what occurred. Sure, completely it was,” mentioned King. “Basically, what has been mentioned is inaccurate and I have never been capable of say something about it for the safety of my youngsters.”

“It is horrifying. I merely do not understand how that is attainable,” she concluded. “And I do not need to stay my life in shock, I need to discover a resolution. However it hurts my coronary heart, to say the least.”

As half of the present association, per courtroom docs, King reportedly is ready to see her sons thrice every week, supervised. That supervision is because of the truth that she allegedly failed to finish a 6-month drug/alcohol program with weekly testing, 26-week parenting program and extra counseling.

King filed for divorce from Newman in 2013; it wasn’t settled till 2023.

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