Sheena Greitens, the ex-wife of Missouri’s former governor, Eric Greitens has detailed multiple allegations of abuse by her ex-husband. The disclosure comes at a time when Mr. Greitens, who resigned as governor after a sex scandal, is seeking Donald Trump’s endorsement for a U.S. Senate seat in Missouri. According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, Ms. Greitens “accused him in court documents Monday of knocking her down, taking away her cellphone and keys, physically abusing their children and repeatedly threatening suicide if she did not publicly support him during the 2018 scandal that led to his resignation as governor.”
Ms. Greiten now lives in Austin, Texas with their children. The allegations come from documents filed as a part of an ongoing child custody dispute.
“In early June 2018, I became afraid for my safety and that of our children at our home, which was fairly isolated, due to Eric’s unstable and coercive behavior,” she wrote in the filing, which was obtained from Boone County Circuit Court. “This behavior included physical violence toward our children, such as cuffing our then three-year-old son across the face at the dinner table in front of me and yanking him around by the hair.”
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An attorney for Eric Greitens said in a statement to the Post: “This attack is nothing more than a sad attempt to force a father to yield custody of his children to a deranged individual.”
Eric and Sheena Greitens were divorced in 2020. The Post writes:
The couple’s relationship collapsed followed a public scandal over allegations that Eric Greitens had taken a photo of a blindfolded, bound and undressed woman with whom he was having an affair and threatened to use it against her as blackmail. He has admitted to the affair but denied the specific allegations, including taking the photo. A felony charge against him for invasion of privacy against the woman, his former hairdresser, was later dropped by prosecutors.
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Trump has said he intends to make an endorsement in the race but has not yet made his pick.
