Content material warning: This story comprises dialogue and descriptions of alleged home violence.
Brody Dalle has spoken out about her tumultuous little one custody battle with Josh Homme in a sequence of recent Instagram posts.
The 2 separated in 2019 following 14 years of marriage. In September 2021, Dalle filed short-term home violence restraining orders in opposition to Homme on behalf of their two sons, claiming they have been scared he was going to harm them.
Within the submitting, it was claimed that the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman “abuses them bodily and emotionally” and had been found as ingesting and driving.
Two months after the restraining orders have been filed, Dalle was discovered responsible of “wilfully” failing handy her five-year-old son over to Homme as a part of an agreed custody deal, and two of their older youngsters have been found to haven’t visited him primarily based on their very own accord. The Distillers singer was sentenced to group service and ordered to pay a $1,000 advantageous.
The 2 later went to court docket at first of 2022, and Dalle testified in opposition to her ex-husband, claiming that he “terrified” her, mentioned he’d “been desirous about desirous to kill” her and head-butted her so laborious that she “noticed stars”.
In March 2022, nevertheless, a court docket granted Homme sole authorized custody of their three youngsters for almost two years. Moreover, Homme shared a uncommon assertion on the scenario, confirming that Dalle isn’t allowed to contact the Homme household, together with Josh, his dad and mom and the previous couple’s three youngsters.
Now, Dalle has shared her facet of the story on her Instagram, and insinuated that her claims have been discovered to be false as a consequence of “cash”, “greed” and “corruption”.
The singer shared two posts on the web page, every containing {a photograph} of her and her youngsters, with a caption sharing her perspective on the custody battle.
“In February 2022 after an eight day trial, I used to be granted a 3 12 months home violence restraining order. You didn’t hear about it as a result of I didn’t go to the press, I didn’t parade it round, tooting it from some triumphant horn” she started.
Brody Dalle speaks up in opposition to Josh Homme in an Instagram put up. pic.twitter.com/QQD8M8v3hr — YCH ✖️✖️✖️ (@yogach_) July 18, 2023
“Three weeks later, they took one in all my youngsters. A month after that, below short-term guise they took my different two. Textbook to a T. They constructed an Everest of lies with no proof….why??…why would they do this ??? as a result of cash, greed, corruption, and profitable in any respect prices is the secret.”
She additionally proceeded to assert that she has been “shoved middle stage, punished, pointed at, lied about, laughed at, ridiculed, shamed, berated and made an instance of” all through the course of the court docket battle, and a sufferer of “smoke and mirrors” created by PRs.
“My story isn’t distinctive and it isn’t uncommon, it’s taking place to protecting moms (and a few protecting fathers) in all places,” she added. “When you’ve got by no means been accused of the quack debunked, looney and very harmful declare of parental alienation and with zero proof as a result of there was none…..please, maintain your tongue, you haven’t any thought.”
In her different put up, she argued that the “script” to take away her youngsters from her starter “years in the past” earlier than she met her companion Gunner Foxx and that was “to not blame for any of it” – and that she “knew about Foxx signing for a restraining order on behalf of her little one with out her current. She additionally continued to explain the emotional aftermath she went by means of each throughout and after the authorized battle.
“That is punishment, for reporting what [the children] mentioned, making an attempt to guard,” she wrote. “I attempted to make it cease for a 12 months and a half, till they refused.to.go. Testified. Begged. Pleaded. Sobbed. What would you do? The whole lot, something I guess.”
“I’m fucking damaged. This has shattered me right into a thousand items. For a very long time, I couldn’t get off the bed. I contemplated what the purpose of occurring was. I’ve been crammed with a lot ache and worry for thus lengthy,” she added. “Nobody can maintain that state. Nobody ought to ever. I let it go. I launched it. I discovered the ladder of sunshine. Get the fuck up and battle to your life. For them. All the time.”
Josh Homme nonetheless at the moment maintains custody over their three youngsters. In his assertion earlier this 12 months, Homme wrote of how he had “shunned making public statements about his household to the media”.
“In mild of the continued falsehoods, the repeated invasions of the kids’s privateness and the ensuing emotional hurt, it’s time that the reality be advised,” a press release on his behalf learn on the time. “Our hope is that it will finish the enquiries and hypothesis and supply the household the privateness and consideration they deserve.”
It added: “For greater than a 12 months after the conclusion of their divorce proceedings, Joshua Homme and Brody Dalle have been capable of amicably co-parent their three youngsters in a wholesome and useful approach. The scenario took a darkish flip when Dalle violated the 50/50 custody settlement by withholdingthe youngsters from seeing their father. Regardless of a number of orders by the Los Angeles Household Courtroom to return the kids, in addition to being present in contempt of court docket, Dalle continued to violate the custody settlement. The scenario was exacerbated by the inappropriate actions of her boyfriend Gunner Foxx.”
Claiming the granting of a brand new restraining order in opposition to Dalle, the assertion mentioned: “Current actions by Brody Dalle and Gunner Foxx haven’t solely brought on the kids emotional hurt, however have additionally put them in nice hazard.”
“In August of 2022, Joshua Homme and his two sons have been granted a restraining order defending them from Gunner Foxx, stopping him from making any contact with them in any way for a interval of 5 years. Foxx’s requests for a restraining order in opposition to Homme have been denied by two separate courts.”
The assertion added: “It was reported that Homme’s daughter filed a restraining order in opposition to him. This was additionally filed by Gunner Foxx who took the minor little one to court docket with out the presence of both of her dad and mom. Previous to the listening to on this matter — on the little one’s request and thru her personal counsel — the order was rescinded.”
Homme’s prolonged assertion concluded by sharing gratitude to “the Los Angeles County Courts, minor’s counsel, native regulation enforcement, DCFS and court-ordered screens for his or her time and continued consideration and care,” including: “The objective of the Los Angeles Household Courtroom System and Joshua Homme’s honest hope is that the conclusion of this matter will consequence within the skill for each Homme and Dalle to co-parent their youngsters peacefully.”
Homme is but to answer Dalle’s newest statements. NME has reached out for remark
Should you’ve been affected by home violence within the UK you possibly can contact Refuge’s freephone Nationwide Home Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247. Within the US, name the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline on 1800 799 7233.