Jaime King says 'system is really unfair' after ex-husband Kyle Newman wins primary custody

Jaime King has spoken retired astir her custody conflict with ex-husband Kyle Newman, astir a period aft a Los Angeles justice granted him sole superior custody of their 2 children.

The “Hart of Dixie” prima and exemplary got candid astir her narration with “Barely Lethal” filmmaker Newman and her determination to “protect my children” successful Thursday‘s occurrence of histrion Jana Kramer’s podcast, “Whine Down.” King, 45, told Kramer that the fallout of her ineligible conflict with Newman “is scary.”

King besides said she volition proceed to combat for her children.

“It’s precise upsetting, and I volition bash everything successful my powerfulness to alteration this system, and it’s not a will. I’m going to,” she said. “There’s nary terms to wage for freedom.”

During the podcast, King and Kramer voiced enactment for each different arsenic they bonded implicit their shared experiences with turbulent marriages and custody battles. “One Tree Hill” alum Kramer has antecedently elaborate the carnal and affectional maltreatment she suffered successful a past relationship. King told the podcast big that she had a antithetic knowing of matrimony erstwhile she tied the knot with Newman, whom she did not notation by sanction passim the podcast.

“[Getting married] was thing I was precise arrogant of and I conscionable didn’t cognize that the satellite works similar this. I didn’t cognize that ineligible systems enactment similar this,” she said. “Not to dependable similar immoderate benignant of neophyte, but I thought that erstwhile you take to emotion someone, you emotion that person. You physique a household with them and you spot them.”

She added: “Sometimes it’s not ever that way.”

King joined Newman successful November 2007 and welcomed sons James and Leo successful 2013 and 2015, respectively. She filed her petition to divorcement Newman successful May 2020, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Though the ex-spouses settled their divorcement successful September 2023, they traded scathing allegations successful the process. King had accused Newman of verbal and affectional maltreatment portion Newman raised concerns astir King’s alleged cause and intoxicant usage and her struggles with addiction.

The “White Chicks” prima said she has avoided speaking astir the household matters due to the fact that “I ne'er wanted my children to deliberation that immoderate portion of them was wrong.”

“I’m highly grateful and, astatine the aforesaid time, the strategy is truly unfair. And I deliberation that it’s truly important to enactment the operation of family,” she said. “Kindness is the cardinal to everything.”

In the podcast, she negatively likened her custody conflict to governmental campaigning, further voiced her issues with the ineligible strategy and accused her ex-husband of utilizing her past struggles with addiction against her successful their custody battle. “I’ve ne'er had to deliberation astir myself arsenic sober oregon not sober. I stopped utilizing drugs astatine 17 oregon something,” she said.

As portion of the custody determination successful March, King is taxable to supervised visitation — until the tribunal rules different — due to the fact that she has not yet completed respective requirements, including a six-month cause and intoxicant programme with play testing, aftercare and a 12-step program, according to the filing. King was besides ordered to implicit a 26-week parenting program, idiosyncratic counseling to “address lawsuit issues” and associated counseling with her children erstwhile the children’s “therapist deems it appropriate.”

At the time, a ineligible typical for Newman told The Times that the filmmaker “is blessed to person his children successful his harmless and loving location connected a full-time ground and hopes that with clip Ms. King volition marque advancement successful her betterment to alteration her to beryllium a present, due and liable genitor to the parties’ insignificant children.”

King successful Thursday’s occurrence besides claimed that the details of the custody bid were “inaccurate.”