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Bachelor Creator Mike Fleiss and wife Laura have announced they’ve reconciled three months afterreaching a divorce settlement.
“Happy to report that @FleissLaura and Ihave reconciled. I love my wife and am grateful for this opportunity to work on our marriage,” Mike, 55, tweeted on Sunday, as he thanked Bachelor Nation for their support.
In her own series of tweets, Laura, 31, addressed an “emotionally charged incident” that took place between the pair over the summer.
As part of their divorce settlement, which awarded her $10 million and left them with joint custody of their 4-year-old son Benjamin, Laura dropped the domestic violence case,TMZpreviously reported.
“Over the summer, my husband and I went through a challenging time, as all marriages do. There was an emotionally charged incident in which we fought over a phone and both exhibited immature and irresponsible behavior. This situation led to making rash decisions we both regret,” she wrote on Sunday.
Laura went on to deny that her husband “intentionally tried to attack and hurt me,” calling it “erroneous reporting.”
“This is untrue. We both take full responsibility for our actions and have worked very hard to repair the damage to our relationship and family,” she continued,addingthat they’re “working together with the help of a marriage counselor to rebuild what we lost.”
Responding to Laura’s tweets,Los Angeles Timesreporter Amy Kaufman spoke out against what Laura called “erroneous reporting.”
“She filed a complaint alleging that he’d verbally and physically abused her,” Kaufman wrote. “She withdrew that report after receiving what a source told us was a $10m settlement.”
InMike’s declarationfrom July, he said that it was Laura who was the aggressor, not him, in an incident that occurred on July 6.
“Laura was the aggressor during the incident and physically attacked me. I tried to get away from her as she was chasing me and hitting me,” he alleged, asking that the court deny Laura’s request for a restraining order.
The two had previously argued about whether or not to have a second child, because Laura wanted to have another, but Mike did not, he claimed. Mike said in his declaration that Laura lied to him about her birth control in order to get pregnant.
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Laura said in her own declaration that Mike “demanded” she get an abortion, and told her, “‘If you have an abortion, then we can just go back to the way we were.’“
If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go tothehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.
source: people.com
