Last week’s tabloids were full of news about Eddie Cibrian’s relationship with mistress-turned-girlfriend LeAnn Rimes. According to both Star and In Touch, LeAnn is trying to buy Eddie’s love with gifts, and his parents probably hate her because they think she’s a home wrecker. No mention if Eddie’s parents think their son is a bit douchey, but I suppose that’s beside the point.
In any case, the tabloids might have missed on some juicy gossip – Eddie and his lawyer just filed new court documents in his divorce case against estranged wife Brandi Glanville. Eddie indicates that Brandi was something of a nutcase, slashing his tires when she found out about one of his affairs. He also claims he and Brandi would get into screaming fights in front of their two sons, and once Brandi told one son that “daddy doesn’t love you.” Yikes.
Eddie Cibrian is calling out the physical and verbal abuse he says occurred at the hands of his soon-to-be ex-wife, Brandi Glanville — and in front of their kids.
In new court papers, the CSI: Miami actor, 36, alleges his ex physically and verbally attacked him, slashing the tires of his Harley Davidson motorcycle tires in a fit of rage after a domestic dispute.
Cibrian, who is filing for joint legal and physical custody, says his ex’s actions have also affected their two children, sons Mason, 6, and Jake, 2.
Weeks after the couple had separated, but while Cibrian was still living in the family’s guesthouse, the actor says his ex got violent and told their son, Jake, “daddy doesn’t love you” during their screaming match.
“[Glanville] is allowing her emotional rage to overcome any attempt by me to do what is in the best interest of our children,” Cibrian says, detailing the Aug. 1 dispute that resulted in his tires being slashed.
But Glanville defends her actions, telling E! News she was retaliating after finding out about her ex’s alleged 2006 affair with cocktail waitress Sheena Marie.
“He broke my heart, so I broke his Harleys,” Glanville, who filed for divorce last summer after eight years of marriage, says. “It was right after I found out about girl No. 2, and I had that Carrie Underwood song in my head, and I just went for it!”
Cibrian is currently dating LeAnn Rimes, whom he met and began an affair with while filming the Lifetime TV movie Northern Lights.
[From Us Weekly]
Quite honestly, the slashing-the-tires thing doesn’t really bother me. It’s just an object, and she didn’t take a golf club to the motorcycle or anything. To me, slashed tires, while annoying and a pain in the ass, are a relatively harmless way to vent some anger. Now, the whole “daddy doesn’t love you” stuff bothers me. My parents divorced when I was a teenager, after years of fighting and nastiness. This sounds like a classic putting-your-children-in-the-middle move, and it will haunt them for years, trust me. Whatever nasty stuff I can say about Eddie, I probably will – but I don’t doubt he loves his sons. He just treated their mother like crap, and Eddie and Brandi should both work to separate their dispute and anger from their love for their children.
Parents who use children as pawns don’t seem to realize that it hurts the children infinitely more than it does the other adult. This is a sore spot for me, and it happens a lot. A group recently coined the phrase “Parental Alienation Syndrome” to describe this form of abuse.
The other adult might get angry, but he/she knows it’s bull$#!& and will get over it eventually. Kids are not emotionally or intellectually equipped to handle this kind of situation, and many are deeply scarred for life.
You have to keep your kids out of it, period. For God’s sake, be creative! There must be other ways to torture an ex. 😉
Okay – that is just messed up – how could she say something like that without thinking about how it will affect the little boy 🙁
I’ve been through a divorce and my ex really is a jerk – even though my emotions were running high, i really tried very hard not to say the wrong thing in front of my son. It’s 5 years later and my son wants nothing to do with his father – he has now seen for himself what his father is really like.
They are kids, not stupid people and they pick up – we shouldn’t contaminate their little minds
he’s a cheater or a jerk but she’s a b**th here!if she’s angry against her future ex-husband,she doesn’t need to involve their kids
This guy has not shown himself to be the model of truth and integrity. He might be making this crap up.
Considering she admitted to it, I doubt he is making it up.
A few weeks back BG’s lawyers filed papers on her behalf that did not make EC look like father of the year. From missed times seeing their kids to leaving them with their nanny while he went to NYC for some TV appearances. The truth in this mess probably lies somewhere in the middle. If BG has the funds, she probably needs to see a therapist and just deal with the anger. EC needs to stop being so passive aggresive and stop his lover from tipping the paps for her smirky photo-ops. EC created this sad mess, he could have just left instead of having numerous affairs and selling his wife out with all the lies.. The one funny part of his legal filing was that he accused BG of notifying the paps of his Mexico location with Smirkgirl. Excuse me…LR has had the paps on speed dial since March 2009!! She has “outed” them at every opportunity to push his wife to leave him. Guess all the gifts he is getting from LR is clouding his one brain cell. Advice to BG…he is so not worth it; rise above the anger and move on.
Oh sure….because EC said it it must be true? BC admitted to slashing his tires, nothing else.
She admitted slashing the tyres nothing else. I don’t know what I would do if my husband had an affair and lied and cheated. Nobody here knows what they would do if it happened to them, we normally act completely different than we think.
She should not do that to those children. Already they think that they are to blame for their parent’s problems, she should not compound it by making them feel un- lovable. In the end, they will hate her too. EC just bugs the hell out of me. To think that once upon a time I thought he was cute. It is amazing how someone loses their good looks once you discover what low- lifes they are.
I believe she slashe the tires , I don’t believe she told that to her son.
I think that Cibrian , just added that to make her look bad.
Be as much of an a-hole to each other as you want…But leave those poor children out of it.
You never, ever, EVER tell a child the other parent doesn’t love them. No matter how hurt or angry you may be, that is not the sort of thing you say to a child, unless you want to f*ck them up for the rest of their lives.
I don’t agree with his behaviour, but neither do I agree with hers. There is such a thing as conducting oneself with dignity. It simply takes more effort than most are willing to exert.
As I have been saying all along about this story, this woman needs to take the high road. There is no excuse for this type of behavior. Two wrongs do not make a right.
I see no reason to disbelieve the story, including the bit about the worst thing to say to a child in the middle of a divorce. Since the whole collapse of their marriage, Brandi has not shied away from emotional outbursts to the media. I have no reason to doubt that she would make those same statements at home too.
He didn’t have to tell that she slashed his tires in court, it is a weak attempt to make sure he gets 50% custody despite being an adulterer. He unfortunatley can hire better lawyers than she can and he will probably get 50% custody by dragging her through the mud. He is really a lowlife, he doesn’t have to do that and he would still get 50% custody.
Way to be a great example for their kids. I’ll never understand why women wild out like this. Have some dignity, pack your sh*t and keep it moving until the court date. I know it sounds cliche, but what’s wrong with just cutting your losses and moving on? If someone wants to cheat and make you look like a fool, why help them out? And how horrible of her to tell her kid that.
I just don’t understand the whole slashing his tires and doing other damage to property. What does that prove? That you still care, that’s what. And she is so bitter in her actions. Why feed his ego with this mess. Honestly, the best revenge she could have gotten was to just move on and make a better life for herself.
I guess you can tell I’m not a fan of that Carrie Underwood song. I know a lot of women may use that as their anthem, but I’m more for just moving on and focusing on oneself. Drama just breeds more drama and never allows you to heal, which is the case with Brandi.
She’s a loon. No wonder he stepped out on her.
My family (mainly my brothers who are much older than I am) said some nasty shit to me when I was growing up and I turned out just fine…
Come to think of it, I’m pretty fucked up… nevermind :/
IF she said that, then it just proves that she loves her self-gratification and martyr-complex more than her children. Parenting win! 🙄
They both seem pretty well-met. Leanne Rimes is soooooo going to regret this.
Oh BOO HOO poor Eddie. If he was so concerned why didn’t he call the police?
Keep in mind BC just found out about girl number 2 after months of Eddie more than likely gas lighting her. Did you expect her just to sit back and take it? I bet Eddie did. My opinion… Eddie was no innocent bystander in this argument and BC only admitted to the tires.
Oh wait didn’t this come out on Friday? Oh yes, yes it did. Funny how his show is on tonight now isn’t it?
i have just boarded the eddie train. i don’t care how big of a douche he was to her, as long as he wasn’t beating her it makes no difference. you should never put your children in the middle, it seems to me he is going out of his way to keep his children out of it, but that one comment brandi made makes me no longer feel any sympathy for her.
and slashing tires while technically harmless is still vandalism.
when my parents got divorced it was bitter but they made an effort to put me first, and i was still traumatized but putting your children in the middle is beyond wron. down with brandi!
If indeed Brandi said that, it was wrong but it must be taken in the context of the moment. Brandi’s world was falling apart because of Eddie’s adultery and his mistress LeAnn was pushing the situation very hard. Brandi may have lashed out in the only way she could and while Brandi was in the depth of confusion and despair, what was Eddie doing? He was video taping the clamity to be used in the divorce. If she said it, she was wrong but nothing can compare to the cowardess of Eddie.
I also want to comment on custody. Eddie chose to be with his mistresses hundreds of times instead of being with his children. Devoted dad my rear. LeAnn knows she can’t have Eddie’s love without his children and I believe she is in the middle of this. She wants Eddie to have the illusion that he can have his cake and eat it too. However, when LeAnn gets pregnant, she’ll turn on Eddie’s kids and drive them away because she wants all of Eddie’s attention on her child. It happens all the time in nature. In fact, the Jews and the Palestinians have been fighting for centuries because of a woman who chased away a step child. Brandi and mother Cibrian know that when LeAnn has a child, Eddie’s kids will get the boot because of LeAnn’s narcassism and jealousy. Face it, she cancelled a concert and got a tatoo because of a rumor Eddie was cheating. This relationship will be a continuous disaster.
I don’t believe this one. This is one of the tools that he and Rhimes are using to get custody of the kids. Rhimes wants the whole package, kids and all. They’re the ones who really get effed over in divorces – children’s lawyers and psychologists will be pulled in to assess them and put them through hell; it’s really unfair just to fill some philandering bitch’s fantasy.
Eddie has a long road to follow to prove he is the devoted father he is claiming. He needs to show a pattern of behavior on the Brandi’s part , if she said and did those things.,not a single incident. Eddie is such a liar if he doesn’t have proof its his word against hers. He will have enough of a problem explaining his long absences from home while in the pursuit of other women. I’m sure Brandi has plenty of proof to show Eddie is a liar. and proof of his behavior showing how he has publicly humiliated the children he claims to love. Eddie needs to stop trying to play the victim. Kids aren’t stupid either one day they will find out all about Eddie’s misdeeds.
I don’t trust this guy as far as I could kick him.
And if anything, this looks to me like a smear campaign he’s working. He’s using his kids just by telling this story. To gain sympathy and damage his ex. He’s just disgusting in every way.
She went to the tabloids immediately and began calling him a bad father and she did not consider the impact this would have on her kids. So, it’s not really farfetched that she would tell the kids he doesn’t love them. He may be a terrible husband but she’s not coming across as a very good mother.
Once again why didn’t he call the police?
Maybe because he isn’t as innocent in all this?
sorry, I find it hard to beleive anything this slime says..sorry..he does not want to pay a ton of loot, he’ll say anything.
serial cheater
To me, if she said that, there is no justification for telling a child that the other parent doesn’t love them. Doesn’t matter if you are having a bad day, you don’t go there.
Terrible that she said that to her son, but given his actions towards his family, I’d say she’s right on the money.