There are plenty of questions surrounding the April 26 domestic abuse incident between former porn star Jenna Jameson and her boyfriend, UFC fighter Tito Ortiz. Tito was arrested on felony domestic violence charges and Jenna was seen with visible bruises on her arms and wearing a sling for a torn ligament in her shoulder. Jenna claimed that Tito pushed her into a tub, and said that she planned to press charges against him. (The case is now in the hands of the District Attorney who will decide whether to press charges.) Shecontradicted herself in statements to the paparazzi, though, and initially said that Tito didn’t beat her up, but later called him a “wife beater.”

Tito held a tearful press conference in which he accused Jenna of being addicted to the painkiller Oxycontin and claimed that he never hit her. In Tito’s version, the fight came about when he discovered some Oxycontin pills in Jenna’s pocket and her injuries were somehow self-inflicted. In response to Tito’s charge, Jenna took a drug test a day later in which she tested negative for all drugs, including Oxycontin.

Tito left home right after the fight. There were stories that Jenna and Tito were planning to reconcile, and TMZ reports that they’ve since talked and want to get back together. Tito was seen visiting the home he shares with Jenna just yesterday, but it’s unknown if she was there.

Jenna is telling her side of the story in US Weekly, and it sounds like the truth could be somewhere in between. Like Tito may have genuinely believed she was taking drugs and he might not have meant to push her so forcefully into the tub. In US, it doesn’t sound like she’s ready to get back with him, but that may have changed since she granted the interview:

The night before, we went out to dinner and got into a fight – about sex. We went to bed angry. I woke up early and heard him get into the shower. Then he came over and whispered, “I hope it feels good to be high. I found your pills.” I had no idea what he was talking about… I don’t have drugs in the house. He was packing his things and it flashed through my mind, “I’m losing my family, the father of my children, what am I going to do?” So I got up and said, “I am not on drugs!” He didn’t believe me.

I was standing in the bathroom – naked, by the way – and he grabbed my arm and pushed me aside. He’s a 220-pound man, so I flew and fell against the edge of the tub. There were some pretty blood curdling screams. The kids were on a walk with my nanny, thank the lord, but my dad heard me and called 911. I’m bruised pretty bad, on my arm, elbow and knees.

I took a drug test after Tito’s press conference, and I am 100 percent clean. For him to do that was just vile. It could have gotten my kids taken away from me! I waited 10 years to have them. How could he do that?

Tito’s not a wife beater… but there may be an anger problem. He’s been through a lot. He lost his contract with [UFC] re-signed and then got injured. And I think he’s still on medication for it [which may have contributed to his mood swing]. The only time I’d ever seen Tito do something like this was when someone had spiked his drink at a club and he became extremely violent. Still, it’s not right for me to say, “This guy pushed me but I’m going to take him back.” I’ve been in abusive situations before and I’m not willing to be a statistic.

My father thinks I should press charges and never let Tito see his children again. If it were just me, I would have left, but I have children who need their father. And he’s a fantastic father. He’s always teaching them how to ride their bikes, how to walk, how to read. When I look at Journey [one of her 13 month-old boy twins], I see Tito. And the bottom line is that we love each other. I’ve forgiven him, but he still needs to walk into this house on his knees, asking for forgiveness. Then he needs and management and we need counseling. I want things to be OK. This has to never happen again.

[From US Weekly, print edition, May 17, 2010]

This doesn’t sound like a clear cut case of abuse, but it’s hard to tell, and it’s hard to know if Jenna is telling the truth. I know I shouldn’t care about these people, but this whole story makes me sad the way it’s playing out in the press. I don’t know if Jenna should take Tito back, but I wasn’t there to see if he really meant to push her or not. If it’s true that Tito has been violent to Jenna in the past, something she’s denied but that at least one person claims to have witnessed, then she needs to get out for sure though.