Meghan King accused ex-husband Jim Edmonds of using “coercive control” amid their ongoing custody drama.
The former “Real Housewives of Orange County” star, 38, took to her Instagram Story Wednesday to vent about the tense situation after Edmonds accused her of keeping their kids from him.
“Nobody really talks about coercive control and the after effects of divorce,” King said while wiping away tears. “People say, ‘It’ll get better in time. It’ll get better with time.’ It’s been three years.”
She continued, “When? What time do I have to wait for? The lawyers told me that. My parental coordinator, everyone told me that. It’s not better. It’s worse.”
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According to the Women’s Aid website, coercive control “is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten their victim.”
A rep for Edmonds did not immediately return our request for comment.
The emotional message comes one week after Edmonds claimed his ex-wife chose to let their three children — Aspen, 5, and twins Hart and Hayes, 4 — stay with a nanny rather than with him while she was at a retreat in Arizona.
“Sad when your ex tells the kids, you don’t want to see them when you’re busy then doesn’t let you see them when you’re out of town. Unknown…” the former MLB player wrote on his Instagram Story.
Following the shady social media post, the athlete’s reps gave Page Six more alleged details about their co-parenting issues.
“Jim thinks it’s really sad the kids are being left with a nanny instead of their father, who changed his Super Bowl plans so he could be with them. Hopefully Meghan enjoys her narcissism retreat,” his rep told us.
Edmonds reportedly canceled his trip to Las Vegas to watch the Super Bowl after learning about King’s plans.
“At the last minute Meghan decides she would rather leave the kids with the nanny, so Jim is left with no Super Bowl plans and no kids,” the insider added.
King slammed Edmonds’ comments on social media the following day, saying she is “sick of verbal and emotional abuse not being classified as ‘abuse.’”
“The courts don’t help protect me, my country club doesn’t protect me, the police don’t enforce, lawyers don’t want to deal with this, so I’m taking matters into my own hands.”
She continued, “I want my children to be proud of their mother for not taking this sitting down. Well behaved women rarely make history and I plan to be on the right side of it.”
King and Edmonds, 52, split in 2019 after five years of marriage and finalized their divorce in 2021.
The baseball player went on to wed Kortnie O’Connor in September 2022 while King also tied the knot to President Joe Biden’s nephew Cuffe Biden Owens.
However, King and Owens called it quits just two months later
