Jaime King Speaks Out After Shedding Sole Custody of Sons

Jaime King is talking out for the primary time since dropping sole bodily custody of her sons.

In a brand new episode of Whine Down with Jana Kramer, King, 45, broke her silence on the continuing custody battle for her kids. The Black Summer time star expressed her fears of talking overtly about dropping sole custody of sons James, 11, and Leo, 9, to ex-husband Kyle Newman.

“My responsibility as a mom is to guard my kids. And that is all that issues to me. That is scary,” King informed Kramer, 41. Kramer additionally endured a custody battle for her two kids, whom she shares with ex-husband Mike Caussin.

The actresses empathized with each other in regards to the struggles of navigating the kid custody system as single moms. “I simply did not know after I obtained married at a younger age. I simply did not know that that the world works like this. I did not know that authorized methods work like this,” King stated.

“And to not sound like some sort of neophyte, however I believed that, , while you select to like somebody, then you definately love that particular person. You construct a household with them, and, you belief them,” King stated of Newman, whom she wed in 2007.

“I agree with you on the authorized system,” the One Tree Hill star stated, earlier than sharing her personal experiences. “I have been in abusive relationships previously and, , even from the feedback to the system, it’s extremely tousled, and what they do to girls and the way they’ll flip it on us is mind-blowing.”

King reiterated that she had not beforehand spoken out on the custody loss for the sake of her kids’s privateness. The actress later addressed current claims that she was ordered to finish a six-month stint in a rehab facility.

“I’ve by no means had to consider myself as sober or not sober. I finished utilizing medicine at 17 or one thing,” stated King. She went on to say that her ex-husband misrepresented tales of her youth to the court docket in an effort to win custody of their sons.

PEOPLE beforehand obtained paperwork in March detailing King’s visitation rights. As of now, she is permitted to see her sons thrice every week in hourly blocks.

An addendum to the court docket order confirmed that King is required to have supervised visitation as a result of she has not accomplished a six-month drug/alcohol program, with weekly testing, aftercare, and a two-step program; a 26-week parenting program; particular person counseling to handle case points; and conjoint counseling with minors, when the minors’ therapist deems it acceptable.

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King acknowledged that she hopes to reform the kid custody system after enduring challenges with it herself. “It is terrifying, when to have the ability to be free implies that it’s a must to pay a really excessive worth, and I am not simply speaking about financially.”

“It’s totally upsetting, and I’ll do all the pieces in my energy to alter this method, and it isn’t a will. I’ll. There is not any worth to pay for freedom.” the actress stated.