In case you’re not familiar with Keshia Knight Pulliam’s drama with her ex, here’s a quick recap. Keshia, 38, is best known as the child actress who played Rudy on The Cosby Show. In late July she announced that she was pregnant by her husband of seven months, a former NFL linebacker named Ed Hartwell. Right after Keshia announced her pregnancy, Ed blindsided her with divorce papers and issued a statement that the baby was not planned for and that he was unsure about the paternity. Keshia granted an interview to ET in which she said that Ed was the one who had cheated on her and begged her for another chance and that she was certain the baby was his. According to Keshia, Ed acted like everything was fine on the day he left and then informed her by text that he was divorcing her. Ed of course fired back at Keshia and claimed that she told “a half truth” about their relationship and that he had made it clear to her that he did not want a baby. He did not deny cheating on her but talked around it.
In a new court filing in which she requests a restraining order against Ed, Keshia states that Ed has been emotionally abusive and somehow intended to cause her to miscarry their baby. (I don’t have access to the court filings and am going by “>Us, People and TMZ’s reporting, which words this part vaguely. It sounds like she’s implying that his emotional abuse was meant to cause harm to her and the baby.) Keshia’s filing also requests that Ed turn in the guns he has in both their names and states that he has not yet taken the paternity test he initially insisted on. Of course Ed denies almost every point of Keshia’s and tries to turn it around on her, which makes me believe her even more.
In a response filed Wednesday to the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, Hartwell “emphatically denies” that he “engaged in certain underhanded and unusual conduct” that Pulliam alleges “believes to be designed … to miscarry her unborn child.”
Hartwell’s response states that Pulliam, 37, “should be ashamed of herself for ever making such false and offensive allegations.”
The 38-year-old former NFL linebacker also “denies there is a need for a restraining order keeping him away” from Pulliam and her home.
Pulliam, who is pregnant with the couple’s unborn daughter, alleges in court documents filed Aug. 9 that her estranged husband is “currently engaged in an adulterous relationship” and “surreptitiously maintained this adulterous relationship with his paramour, Tonya Jean Carroll.”
In Wednesday’s filing, Hartwell “emphatically denies the allegations of adultery” during the marriage and claims that “he is not involved in a relationship with anyone,” including Carroll.
Though the former Cosby Show child actor requested a paternity test from Hartwell after she alleged in the Aug. 9 docs that he “deliberately neglected to acknowledge” that the couple is expecting their first child, Hartwell states in his response that “he has always been willing to voluntarily submit to paternity testing.”
He explained in the court documents that he is waiting to take a paternity test until after the child is born because prenatal testing “could possibly endanger the life of the unborn child.”
Pulliam also alleges that her ex “has been mentally and emotionally abusive” and “has willfully engaged in such cruel treatment which has affected the health and welfare.”
The expectant mother claims that Hartwell’s “mental state … should be questioned due to his violent and erratic behavior and actions” and that he “should be immediately ordered to submit to a psychological evaluation.”
In the docs, she claims she “was forced to live on egg shells in the former marital home due to [Hartwell]’s deep-seated rage and uncontrollable anger.”
In Hartwell’s response, the athlete denies the claims and states in the documents, “If either party has been mentally and emotionally abusive toward the other, it is [Pulliam].”
The Kandidly Keshia host also claims in the documents that her ex is “in possession of firearms” that are registered under her name and requests that he “be ordered to immediately remove [Pulliam]’s name from the registration/title of any firearms, or, in the alternative, turnover said firearms to Respondent at a local police department.”
Hartwell admits in his response that “he is only in possession of his own firearms” but denies that he has any firearms in his possession that are registered under Pulliam’s name.
Ed’s entire defense has been “I know you are but what am I?” In this response, the section about guns doesn’t make complete sense. So he’s admitting he has guns but says that they’re not under Keshia’s name so he’s not going to turn them over? Also, he accused her of cheating on him to get pregnant and he sounds jealous and possessive, but somehow she’s the one who is emotionally abusive. Yeah, right. So far Keshia has been much more convincing than Ed. I hope she is ok and that she has people around her to keep her safe.
This week is making me so sad.
*siighhh* when you gotta deny you are actively trying to cause your ex to have a Miscarriage … Is just too much tooo F*cking Much…. this has to be Bottom
I just don’t get men who cheat on their wives, especially a new wife. Can someone please enlighten me, and explain why men want their SO’s, but want to stray? It’s so disrespectful, like if you wanna live that life, don’t marry someone, keep playing the field.
LOL, I’m assuming you’re looking for a more sophisticated answer than, “They feel they are entitled to have their cake and eat it too,” but that’s all this is. They want the wife at home to pop out their heirs and take care of everything, but they also want discreet, sex-only pieces on the side. That’s the mentality of men like this. They inherently don’t have respect for either women or relationships. Unfortunately, it really is that simple.
Yeah, there are a lot of alternatives to monogamy as long as you’re perfectly honest and up-front with your partners about it. Give everyone the option of informed consent, and it can work — not with every person, but with those willing to genuinely mesh what you want with what they want.
This guy just sounds like an asshole, though. I suspect he doesn’t give a damn how much he hurts others as long as he’s getting everything he wants, and that’s the real problem in the relationship, more than his straying.
I am sick of both of them.Initially I had empathy for her until I learned she she lied about a couple of things like claiming on ET that she was selling the house she is living in.Knowing full well she is currently leasing the house and the lease is up in October.Although it’s an minor lie I believe it shows she was trying to be dramatic by saying, I am so devastated by what he did that I am taking the dramatic step to sell my house.
I also lost respect for her when I learned on ET that she got pregnant AFTER learning her husband of only a few weeks was cheating on her.Why have unprotected sex with your husband who you say confessed to cheating on you,why risk getting pregnant and bringing a child into a dysfunctional marriage?
He is an as#hole and she is a drama queen,IMO.I hope the baby is healthy.
I feel sorry for the unborn baby. That poor kid is going to be born into this mess. She doesn’t deserve that.
Yes. Douchey father, hyperbolic & hysterical mother. Walk away, Keshia, walk away.
He sounds like a sociopath. He takes pleasure in toying with people.
He may be and if she had dated him more than a few months maybe she would have seen that.She was foolish,she obviously wanted to be a wife and mother and ignored the warning signs about him being a cheater and a jerk.
Totally. A friend had a similar experience. Desperate to get married so didn’t date for long. Within a year big trouble. Along come baby (because when your marriage is in trouble that’s an ideal time) separated shortly after birth. The fall out has been major, accusations of abuse, arrests, court cases, etc etc
If he had dated her for a year or more I’m sure he wouldn’t have married her.
Granted, many people do marry quickly and it works for them. But crazy ass people can often keep that side of them quiet for a few months – and the other party ignores the odd signs, particularly when sex and lust are involved
Yes, my grandmother said you should date someone for at least a year, because it can take that long for their true colours to begin to show.
Ha, ha, @Bread and Circuses, my granny used to say you should summer and winter with some-one before deciding anything permanent. I can see the wisdom in that. Mr Antipodean and I dated across the world for four years before we tied the knot.Thirty years later we are still going strong, and having fun, he is my best friend.
Absolutely. Kids, don’t marry someone you barely know just to achieve an end. Team no one (though abuse obviously is a huge no-no).
If “toying with people” is all it takes to qualify as a sociopath, the vast majority of people alive right now are sociopaths. You’ve obviously never crossed the path of an actual sociopath.
Why would he turn his guns over ? Because she asked? She doesn’t claim physical violence or death treats,just that he was verbally nasty over a pregnancy he did not agree on or want ?
She’s the one working the press like a pro .
If you don’t want a pregnancy, don’t get married in the first place. I mean that’s kind of the end game.
Her game maybe . Apparently not his . Consenting to marriage ≠consenting to kids
Getting married + not using protection is consenting to kids. Marriage means family anyway.
When a man refuses to use protection, he consents to whatever the hell he gets, IMO. I’m positive this dude is NOT a condom user…
I don’t have a side here because I don’t care but I do agree her mentioning the guns that have nothing to do with anything as far as I can see is her attempt to manipulate public opinion. Guns are a hot button issue that inspire an emotional reaction and she’s trying to use that to paint him as a violent, dangerous guy. Pathetic and transparent.
I don’t understand grown adults living with/causing this kind of drama. It’s just so mentally and emotionally exhausting. It really makes me appreciate that pretty much the worst thing my husband and I fight over is leaving the toilet seat down or forgetting to send lunch in my kids’ backpacks.
I am team no one. But I must say I never trust men with those super thin mustaches. See R Kelly.