Over the summer, Keke Palmer went to Las Vegas with some girlfriends and they caught Usher’s show. Usher brought Keke on stage and serenaded her and it was a really cute video. The video went viral, as did Darius Jackson’s reaction to it. Darius was, at the time, Keke’s boyfriend/partner. They welcomed their son earlier this year and Darius and Keke lived together, but let’s be clear: Keke was paying all the bills and Keke is extremely famous. The first time I even paid attention to Darius was when he basically went on a misogynistic rant about Keke wearing a “revealing” dress to Usher’s show. Black Twitter read Darius for filth, and for a few months, everyone crossed their fingers that Keke had dumped Darius. It went back and forth – some weeks, it seemed like they were together, some weeks it looked like she dumped him. They finally seemed done by the start of autumn.
Most women assumed that Darius was emotionally abusive towards Keke (because he was doing that openly online). Turns out, it was much, much worse. Darius was physically abusing her, breaking into her home and terrorizing her. Keke filed for a protective order and some screenshots were released from the security cameras she had installed in her home.
Keke Palmer is requesting sole custody of her 8-month-old son Leodis, whom she shares with Darius Jackson after alleging the child’s father has been physically abusive on multiple occasions. On Thursday, the Nope actress, 30, filed a request for a domestic violence restraining order in Los Angeles, according to documents reviewed by PEOPLE.
In the California Superior Court filing, Palmer alleges that on Sunday, “Darius trespassed into my home without my knowledge or consent, threatened me, then physically attacked me — lunging for my neck, striking me, throwing me over the couch, and stealing my phone when I told him I was going to call the police.”
She also includes screenshots of what appears to be security footage of a man striking a woman over a sofa. Palmer alleges that Jackson, 30, has abused her multiple times over a 2-year period.
Another incident was allegedly recorded on “home security footage [from] February 13, 2022 when Darius body slammed me onto the stairs by my neck.”
In the declaration, Palmer alleges there were “many instances of physical violence, including striking and grabbing me around the neck, descriptions of Darius destroying my personal property, including diaries and prescription eyeglasses, throwing my belongings into the street, throwing my car keys to prevent me from driving away, hitting my in front of our son, spewing profanities about me to our son, threatening to kill himself with a gun if I left him, harassment, and other physical and emotional abuse.”
Palmer went on to state that during the incident on Sunday, Jackson came to her home to take Leodis to a football game, but the 8-month-old was not home because he’d gone with Palmer’s sister to visit family. After a verbal disagreement, Jackson allegedly “knocked me backwards over the couch, stole my phone out of my hands, and then ran out of the house.” Palmer maintains that the entire incident was “captured by my home security camera, which will be played for the Court at the time of the hearing.” She said she followed him outside to retrieve her phone and “he nearly hit me with his car.”
Palmer’s filing states that on or around April 21, 2022, the former couple went out to eat at a restaurant in Santa Barbara when Jackson allegedly became upset after accusing Palmer of flirting with a woman, causing the parents to head back to their hotel early. “Darius grabbed my prescription eyeglasses away from me, threw them on the ground and stomped on them. He then opened my bag, threw all of my belongings onto the pavement in the rain, and threw my car keys across the parking lot before he got into his own car and drove off,” the document reads.
She alleges that he would also “love bomb” her. “The abuse during our relationship was not just physical, but emotional and manipulative,” the filing for the restraining order reads. “Darius would ‘love bomb’ me and make me feel like I was the most important woman in the world, only to get extremely distant and cold over a perceived insult to him. If we were at a party or event, and I spoke with one person too long or looked at someone a “certain way”, he would storm off in a rage – telling me I was ‘slut’ and a ‘whore,’ accuse me of cheating on him, and that I did not love him. Darius had a way of gaslighting me to make me feel like I was doing something wrong even though I wasn’t.”
I believe her and I feel so sorry for her. Darius Jackson is a complete POS, a violent abuser and dumb as hell. My guess is that Keke didn’t have security cameras in her house originally, that she had them installed at some point when she broke up with him. It’s heartbreaking to think that Keke had them installed because she knew that Darius would continue to terrorize her and menace her after their split. Darius clearly didn’t know about the physical evidence she compiled either, because before Darius and his brother knew about the video footage, they were on social media, calling Keke a liar. They apparently deleted all of that stuff last night, but Darius left one tweet up which reads like a threat, like he’s going to kidnap their son to “punish” Keke. I hope this f–ker goes to prison.
— v (@ViralContentz) November 10, 2023
I love you, son. See you soon. pic.twitter.com/uRe6N1RYqL
— Darius. (@dvulton) November 10, 2023
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- 2023 Fragrance Foundation Awards at David Koch Theater – Outside Arrivals Featuring: Keke Palmer Where: New York City, New York, United States When: 15 Jun 2023 Credit: Janet Mayer/startraksphoto.com
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- Keke Palmer on’ Today’ show to talk about her concert tour and have a baby. Featuring: Keke Palmer Where: New York, New York, United States When: 25 Sep 2023 Credit: Roger Wong/INSTARimages
I never saw anything from a sister,but his brother the actor also chimed in, so all the siblings are deplorable.
Next he will be asking for child support, what an abusive loser.
I’m just going to hop onto one of the first comments to say that people like this rarely change because why would they? An excellent read, and available for free online in PDF format is the book “Why does he do that?” by Lundy Bancroft.
I recommend everyone who is either in a relationship with a controlling person or loves someone who might be to read that. These people don’t change or rehabilitate without great personal growth and that’s a rare thing to have happen.
I read that because my close friend was in an abusive relationship and it was…hell on earth.
He won’t get a penny because he’s going to lose custody and get supervised visitation. I know because my son’s dad acted like this. When there’s this much evidence of abuse the court won’t even let him be alone with the child. There’s no child support paid to the non-custodial parent.
Unfortunately, the family courts vary wildly from state to state about how they handle custodial rights and visitation in instances of domestic violence where the abuser was not abusive towards the child (and, unfortunately, even when they HAVE been abusive towards the children). In a lot of states, even having a protective order against an ex does not automatically result in visitation being supervised or custody being severed, etc.
You can see it even in how Angelina and Brad’s divorce played out; the custody dispute dragged on forever [bc Brad wanted it to so he could use the courts to retraumatize both Angelina and hte kdis] even though the kids were old enough to express their own opinions on what custodial arrangement they wanted AND Brad seemed to show little interest in being an involved parent.
Also, in most states, no permanent decisions about custody or visitation are made as part of the civil restraining order process, especially if they aren’t being handled as part of another proceeding in a family court. Judges will enter short-term interim visitation agreements (usually facilitated through a family member so that they don’t have to meet in person to do hand-offs), once-in-awhile they’ll also order at least some kind of informal supervision by someone that both parties agree on, and they *maybe* will enter a temporary child-support arrangement but to get a permanent custodial arrangement, you almost always have to initiate a formal family court process (unless I missed it that Keke has filed for a court order in family court to deal with the custody issues as well, in which case ignore all of the above).
In some states, even a non-custodial parent can get child support, depending on how you define custodial and whether the parent has any visitation or responsibilities towards the child. Even if he got only visitation with supervision, in some states that’s enough to still order some amount of child support.
Good for her that she didn’t marry this dude but I did volunteer DV work representing survivors in the restraining order process and it was so clear that it wasn’t marriage but having a child with someone that was the real mechanism that trapped too many of my clients in dangerous relationships. Marriages can end; once you have a child with someone, they’re going to stay in your life to one extent or another for 18 years.
TL;DR: I’m glad your situation worked out for you but sadly its not the norm for how many family courts work.
I hope she has private security because this man is extremely dangerous to both Keke and her son. Like potentially mortally dangerous.
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He should not be given custody or visitation rights.
Agree that he’s potentially mortally dangerous, based on the data about men who go for the neck.
I usually try to temper my remarks about domestic violence because it’s not just that someone (male or female) is a “bad” person, but there are actually allegations of a crime involved. This man, however, makes it easier to believe Keke’s claims against him because of the way he reacted publicly to Keke’s appearance at an Usher concert, which seemed fun and innocent. Just the way he went on about the way she was dressed was so inappropriate and unexpected that it makes her descriptions of his private behavior that much more likely.
It’s also difficult to say right out of the gate that a father should have no visitation rights, but again this guy has a way of showing his bad side or intentions on social media for some reason. First, the son is hardly likely to be active on social media at his young age, so why is this guy “sending a message” supposedly to the son, saying, “See you soon.” That message seems to be targeted toward the other parent and, if so, why involve the child even more into your disputes with his mother? Also, why involve the child into such an unpleasant mess — in public? He may not have meant to signal his intentions to keep the child from his mother, but I can sure see why some would think that. This guy is just begging for supervised visitation, at this point. There’s really something wrong with him.
What a sh*tbag. Absolutely horrifying. I feel so bad for Keke and her son, neither of whom deserve any of this.
Wow, that was triggering to read, and I usually hate that word. All of that, every single thing happened to me in my experience. It’s amazing how by-the-book some of them are.
This exactly. I swear there is a handbook for these dirtbags somewhere. Mine was like this and so were all of the others that the women in my life had dealt with.
His such an abusive bum. I feel so bad for keke and her son. I hope she is able to move to a safer place and never have to see him again.
When he made that stand on what Keke was wearing…I ALREADY KNEW he was laying hands on her.🤬..how did I know? LIFE HAD TAUGHT ME! ALL ABUSERS I’ve EVA known follow the SAME PUTRID TEXT BOOK & Keke’s POS baby daddy ain’t NO DIFFERENT! i’m just HAPPY that Keke didn’t stay in this hell FOREVA & I pray for her peace & safety😢🔥🤬
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When he was that controlling and emotionally abusive on twitter you just knew he was worse in private. I hope she stays safe snd he pays gir what he did.
The conceiving of their baby immediately into the relationship was a sign for me. He was gonna make damn sure he had some control over her for the next 18 years.
Excellent point on the baby as a means of control, Tiffany.
I’m saddened by this news. It was unexpected yet unsurprising given his Tweets about her dressing up for Usher’s concert. Hopefully Keke can heal.
Please know if you’re in a controlling, abusive relationship that you are worth something and you are worth getting out of it. Take care of yourselves!
After he raised that stink about what she was wearing, I recognized the signs immediately because in the long run, whether or not a partner is physically abusive is beside the point. If your partner is willing to be that controlling and manipulative for the whole world to see, you can assume every single time that it is infinitely worse at home. We do survivors (and ourselves) a huge disservice when we treat physical abuse as worse than emotional/financial/social abuse because (a) it sends the unspoken message that the only “real” abuse is physical abuse and (b) that non-physical abuse isn’t a good enough reason to leave a relationship. [Not saying you were doing that! Just commenting more generally since it is such a common misconception.]
I mentioned this above too but when I did volunteer work with DV victims helping to apply for restraining orders, many times, the clients I worried about the most had never been physically abused but had survived years upon years of emotional abuse. Because the most dangerous time in any abusive relationship is when the abused partner decides to leave; perpetrators who had never previously been physically abusive were both way less predictable but it could also be difficult to convince the client themselves that they needed to take precautions for their own safety after leaving. Safety planning is such a critical part for anyone leaving an abusive relationship but the survivors and even their support network (esp the support networks) often didn’t take the real risk to their safety as seriously because “[they’ve] never hit me before”.
TL;DR: I’m so glad Keke is getting out now. And here’s hoping they can reach an agreement on all these issues as quickly and safely as possible and that the courts protect her and their child!
The part that made me really sad about Keke’ narrative above was when she wrote that the boyfriend was saying bad things about her to her own son, or in front of their son. The fact that he would do that to an innocent kid is just horrible. At 30 years old, he should really know better than to do that.
I’m glad that Keke got a security alarm but, at this point, I just hope that she also changed her locks, and changed the password to her phone so that when and if he dares to swipe it, he can’t log on, pretending to be her, and send messages or private photos to her friends, acquaintances, or business contacts, because he seems to be just the kind of person who would do that.
this makes me so sad for her. she seems like a genuinely nice person. I hope she can keep him as far away from her son as possible. at least she’s the one with the fame and money, but I’m sure it’s still going to be a very difficult road.
Ome this is terrifying and heartbreaking! She does seem like a nice person, I just started listening to her podcast, and the first segment includes her talking to her mom about what’s going on and what they’re going to do on the show. They have a great dynamic and her whole fam just sounds really supportive.
I’m so glad she’s out of this. And I hope her and her son are somewhere safe that he doesn’t know about.
Destroying her glasses shows exactly what type of mindset he has. He’s literally disabling her, trying to make her helpless, showing her he controls her ability to even navigate the world.
Oh my God. I hope Keke and her son are safe and surrounded by all the love and support they need right now. He could have killed her. I daresay he WOULD have killed her eventually if she didn’t get out, because men who are this misogynistic and violent rarely redeem themselves, and his behavior would likely have only escalated.
Also, his reaction to the Usher show made me think of Halle Bailey’s scumbag boyfriend. Hopefully she gets away from him before it comes to something like this.
Wow this guy is insane! What an absolute piece of filth. Stay AWAY K Keme!!!
Some of that footage is from February 2022 which I think is before she was even pregnant. This has been going on for quite awhile and that’s horrible. I wonder how he treated her during the pregnancy.
Looks like a a case of a bum babytrapping a successful woman.
I’d get an emergency custody hearing. Ask for sole custody with supervised visits at a state run facility (not his home). Maybe she’s already done this or maybe the PO automatically cancels his visitation? God, I hope so.
This isn’t at all surprising. We knew he was abusive off his tweets alone. I’m so happy she left. Going for her neck several times? He would have eventually killed her.
Does anyone know anything about CA family court? Nothing above described abuse towards their son (technically. I would argue abusing his mother in front of him as abuse towards him as will). Well the court grant sole custody without that?
Absolutely. Attempts to strangulate are a huge red flag—a predictor of risk of homicide. I hope he never gets a chance to harm anyone, ever, again.
This is just awful on so many levels,proof that we really don’t know what is happening behind the scenes.
I hope Keke is safe, and her asshole of an ex gets what he deserves.
This is so sad. I hope Keke wins her case and that she can heal from this.
POS abuser and, yes, dumb as hell. Behind bars with this gaslighting AZZ!
Stay safe Keke.
What a terrible situation, I hope she has a great support network and can process the fact that she is now out of his reach and not living this nightmare any longer. It shouldn’t be needed but she does have the proof of him attacking her to support her case.
While she hasn’t chosen to go public and speak about this, the fact that it is in the public sphere will hopefully help other abused women find ways out of their situation. Abuse can happen to anyone.
Whoa. He needs to be kept away from them.
I hope she gets the protection that she and her son need. Courts are so slow to protect women because they “don’t want to ruin the man’s life and career.” That’s a direct quote from the CEO of a shelter for abused women that I heard give a speech a few years ago. If she didn’t have the resources to put in those cameras it would be a he-said she-said with all of his friends free to call her a liar (as those asshats tried to do here).
Which is crazy because they ruin people’s lives over far less serious crimes every day.
Does he have a career? Genuine question as I don’t know what he does. I only know of him because of her.
He’s some sort of celebrity fitness trainer and owns a gym I believe. So he’s clearly a whole lot stronger than she is and probably takes steroids to bulk up. Not a good combination for an abusive a-hole like him. I hope all child custody is taken away from him. He needs to be jailed.
What a POS he is
After those tweets I was concerned that he was abusive and controlling. He sounded unhinged and crazy jealous. I am glad she is out of that relationship and fighting for herself and her son. It was horrible and definitely escalating. Hope she get the restraining order and that she gets extra security to keep herself safe and her son. He is terrible.
I knew something wasn’t right about him when was tweeting about her outfit at the Usher concert. He wanted to embarrass her and get people to criticize her but this is the woman he supposedly loves. When those tweets could’ve been and should’ve been text messages between them. He definitely don’t need to be anywhere near her and needs supervised visitation.
She was smart and took steps to protect herself.. look up the statistics on men who choke women, she probably saved her own life with this evidence.
That last photo of his tweet with his son made my blood run cold. That man is evil.
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It’s a terrible situation for her and her son. He’s not going to just leave her alone because she filed these charges. He feels entitled to her and their son as possessions.
Holy Hell. After seeing those tweets I was concerned he was controlling in private as well, but this is beyond what I imagined and just terrifying. I feel so badly for her. I hope she is able to sort our custody swiftly and get the mother of all restraining orders and hopefully even more. Surely she can prosecute for assault?
He smashed her eyeglasses! I know it might seem odd for me to zero in on that but it’s just so….pointed. Does she have serious trouble seeing without them? It’s like trying to take away her independence if so.
I’ve had to start wearing glasses due to age and it’s so disconcerting to not be able to see well without them. Breaking glasses is intentional as hell and sick.
I follow her on IG and she sometimes wears glasses with a thick prescription. She likely wears contacts often, but her glasses prescription suggests she has had poor vision from a young age. It’s not just reading glasses. So this makes smashing her glasses even more vicious.
If she requires them for driving, which from others’ comments the lenses are thick enough for that to be the case, then it also restricts her from having an easy way to flee. Taxis/Ubers take time to reach you, and depending on how poor her uncorrected eyesight is, it could even be difficult for her to leave the room. Him repeatedly flinging her keys away also shows that pattern. Even without the choking/strangulation, that was a huge red flag of potential mortal peril for me. Added to the choking? Holy sh*t I’m glad she has security and financial independence.
It’s terrifying and deeply sad the most dangerous time in a woman’s life is when she is pregnant and/or newly post-partum.
It’s also a sneaky way, for a man with less money or less earning potential in the relationship, to try to control her. As you say, destroying someone’s prescription glasses is taking away her independence at that moment. But, just to show how intentional it was, he didn’t just take them away from her, he stepped on them. Ridiculous. He should be embarrassed to show his face.
Omg this makes my blood boil. Ladies – anyone that goes for your neck at any time intends to murder you. No matter how sorry they are the first time, how much they love bomb and promise it won’t happen again. Strangling is SERIOUS – you are in serious danger when someone tries to strangle you. I’m fortunate that I don’t know this from experience but I know it from statistics. When someone puts their hands on your neck you run – take your kids, your pets, what you can grab and RUN.
Second, and this one I am familiar with from my narcissistic mom, and also a friend I finally ditched cause she was a POS and just like my mom. When a person threatens to kill themselves, RUN. This is a manipulation tactic employed by so many abusers. When they sense they are running out of tools to manipulate you – they threaten to kill themselves. My mom started threatening to kill herself when I was 8. She still does it in her 80s. She is full of crap – 70 plus years of empty threats and trying to manipulate/control the people around her. One year one of my siblings said at the table “well you’ve been threatening this since I was 10 – it’s like 70 years later – we’re all still waiting!” It sounded incredibly cruel to the outsiders that were there – but I 100% was on the side of the spite – because eff her and her narcissistic terrorist BS that we’ve all had to endure since we were children. I literally wanted to stomp my feet and light a match when my sibling said this. Of course my mom responded with tears – that’s her other manipulation tactic.
Sadly, when a person is serious about killing themselves – they don’t make threats. Often they seem perfectly find and there’s no warning. They don’t warn because they are serious about taking their own life – they don’t want you to talk them out of it. A person who constantly threatens to kill themselves if you don’t do XYZ is a TRASH CAN. PERIOD. RUN.
Yes–the strangling & threats of suicide are both extremely concerning. Her life is in danger with him around.
Spot on Lizzie Bathory! I have wanted her to get the hell out of dodge since his douchebag comments about what she had on. He is not going away quietly and is going to assert parental alienation and all this other crap – when he is a danger to her and their son. Lawyer up Keke and crush him like the bug he is.
And threats about killing himself make him an absolute danger to his son.
Because a man like that sees his children as extensions of himself. “I made you and I can unmake you.”
Keke and her little boy are at serious risk. Thank God that she is taking the right steps to protect herself and her child.
Everything you just said Cali! In many states it is a crime to threaten to kill yourself in front of your child. It is considered a form of child abuse – as it should be. I hope the law comes down on him hard!
ALL OF THIS!
Keke is so charming and talented and she deserves so much better. Smart woman to document the abuse! All best wishes to her and her son to be free of this trash abuser.
You are so right Glamarazzi. She has a long tough road ahead getting rid of this guy – and he is going to use his child every step of the way to manipulate her – he’s already started doing that with that trash can tweet about how much he loves his son. No a-hole – if you loved your son you wouldn’t beat his mother in front of him! You wouldn’t traumatize a person in this way if you loved them.
You’re so right! Mr. Jaded’s batsh*t crazy, narcissistic ex-wife has threatened suicide since she left him 9 years ago but immediately demanded to reconcile as soon as the divorce papers were signed. She has been relentless in her pursuit of him since then to the point where we had to block her phone numbers and email address, and return packages to her unopened, it’s like playing whack-a-mole with her. But like you say, threats of suicide are a narcissist’s way of drawing attention and sympathy to themselves, but it’s just a bluff. Someone who truly wants to commit suicide will do it without telling the world.
Omg Jaded – what a nightmare you’ve been dealing with! I’m so sorry you’ve had to deal with that.You are so wise to block her and not open her packages! I am full no contact with my mom – I am done. I knew that when I raised my glass at my sibling’s comment and I felt not one thing at those crocodile tears which is her go to manipulation when she’s not threatening to harm herself or us.
I ended up with a friend exactly like my mom – also constantly threatening suicide and made a half ass attempt at it to get attention when the house was full of guests. She would send a barrage of texts beginning with I WANT TO DIE etc. I realized she was doing it to manipulate me into giving her more money. I was out 5k before I realized this was nothing but a grift and I cut her off. What really pissed me off is she made those threats in front of her kids and she also knew her teenagers were going through her text messages. What a narcissistic A-hole to put her children through that because she wasn’t getting what she wanted in her divorce.
It’s 5 years later – guess who is still alive? Yep, she now sends those texts to the next sucker. Threatening to kill yourself is a GIANT red flag for me.
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Thank you bisynaptic. He makes my blood boil. I hope she squashes him and never looks back.
I didn’t realize this at 19/20 and stayed way too long with someone who went for my neck all too frequently. God, if I knew the things I know now and my worth, things would have turned out much differently for him.
Don’t blame yourself And, because 19-20 is still very young and there is no manual to teach you this – you learn from experience. I always say oh to have my 50 year old self have a conversation with me at half my age – but you learn and at least you got away from him! I honestly wish domestic violence and spotting the signs of it was a class taught in school, along with money management. Because this country is in a crisis, and so is the rest of the world. Young women have to learn how to spot the red flags. It should really be part of sex ed. Abusers have the same manipulation tactics and it would be helpful to alert young women about them.
What you say about an abuser making threats to kill themselves cannot be stressed enough, and it’s an often-overlooked form of the abusive pattern. It’s manipulative and plays on the victim’s tendency to want to help and make things better for someone they once loved. It certainly makes many people stick around longer — to their detriment and that of any children.
this is so sad and so infuriating.
not even the independent, free-spirit women like keke are immune to violent abuse and manipulation. sigh…
and there are quite a few such stories i’ve heard of women you’d last expect being treated like this, unfortunately. it’s great that we now live in a world in which women can be financially empowered and hold down themselves and their families, but clearly we still have a lot to do when our sisters are still struggling to escape years-long abuse and to know their worth…
Violence like this is usually a life sentence for the victim. Poor Keke, I hope she has some protection around her, a paper document means nothing.
I was thinking the same thing. This guy could care less about a piece of paper. I hope she has full time security to keep him away from her.
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Bysnaptic, HARD agree. This situation is SO disturbing, and this guy fits the bill to a T, for the type of person who ends up murdering his ex. Especially because it sounds like he doesn’t have much going for him. When a very successful person breaks up with their not so successful partner, the partner doesn’t just lose the person, but also loses his entire lifestyle……that person is EXTREMELY dangerous, esp since we already know he’s prone to violence. I so so so hope that Keke is taking this VERY seriously, and that she doesn’t let him lure her back in somehow. I hope she’s getting that restraining order as we speak.
Also Keke is so beautiful. I couldnt NOT mention that.
Prayers for Keke and her son.
I feel so bad for her and her son. But am so impressed with how quick she was to stand up for herself, I know that can be so hard. The video footage of him in her house is awful. Hopefully the judge listens and everyone is safe.
I don’t know why there’s the belief she had those cameras installed after they broke up, the images have time stamps one is clearly from February of 2022. And I think it makes his actions seem even more deranged, to assault someone who you know has security cameras….
It’s very likely they were installed so she could prove to him she wasn’t cheating.
Wow, yeah this ‘cameras to prove she’s not cheating’ thing is such a salient point. It’s crazy to think about after the fact but it’s exactly the type of thing you’d do when you’re still in the “if I could just get him to understand the truth” phase in an abusive relationship.
This is a huge part of the isolation phase, where you are showing them that you’re not cheating by making sure they can see everything you are doing and everyone you are with. You only go out with them, with their friends, but eventually (as was my experience) they are furious because you laughed at one of their brother’s jokes, or once you eliminate men from your life entirely, they will start accusing you of sleeping with women.
At first you think you just need to prove to them that they are wrong about you, and then he will go back to how he was in the beginning, back to normal. It takes a while before you learn that the beginning was the lie, and that THIS, this abusive psycho- THIS is his normal.
Wow. I’m so sorry Keke. This is terrifying and heartbreaking for her and her baby. I hope this dude rots. Keep her safe and away from him.
Poor Keke. The POS is a perfect son of patriarchy, sadly.
I was dating a guy in LA 5 years ago and then we had to go long distance. He became super suspicious, jealous and paranoid when we would do our video chats. After a few weeks I told him I am over it, that he is scary and he should see a real life therapist (he was obsessed with self help books but never actually made a change it was all just reading and self reassurance kinda BS).
The deep sense of fear of what the future could look like, and safety I felt when I never looked back… I knew. I hope the next girl also run for hills. I wish there was a website where we could let one another know who to steer away from..
I have the deepest sympathy for what she went through, I absolutely do. I was in a similar situation with a guy who pretty much did the exact same to me as he did Keke. I got pregnant and aborted the foetus as soon as I could. No matter how much I loved the guy I was with at the time and thought he would change and no matter how much I wanted the kid, there was no way on earth I would’ve brought a child into that environment. Sad that she is tethered to him forever.
Good for her for speaking out about this and looking out for the safety of her son and herself.