Conservative commentator Steven Crowder claimed on Friday afternoon that the controversial footage of him berating his then-heavily pregnant wife was “misleadingly edited” — and announced plans to unseal all related records in the state of Texas.
In the disturbing Ring footage from June 2021 shared by Yashar Ali on Thursday, Crowder can be heard telling his wife, Hilary, to “f–king watch it” and accuses her of refusing “to do wifely things.”
Hilary, who is now divorcing Crowder, was 8-months pregnant with twins at the time.
“Broken marriages are ugly. In them, people do ugly things, myself of course included, and I would never claim otherwise,” Crowder said in a Twitter video and written statement on Friday.
“Due to recent misleadingly edited leaks to the tabloid press, without context and not subject to consequences of the court … well, if not privacy, the next best option is truth,” he continued.
“And so today, I have filed a motion to officially unseal all files as they relate to the matter of legal record. Finances, relevant medical records, including mental health history or evaluations, depositions, and any motions of sanctions from the courts of Texas.
“I will NOT be leaking private marital information to the press, but if the privacy agreements are not respected by all parties, I will address that [as] a matter of irrefutable legal record, in full context, next week.”
Crowder’s statement comes after Hilary’s family told Ali that his estranged wife spent “years hiding Steven’s mentally and emotionally abusive behavior from her friends and family while she attempted to save their marriage.”
The “Change my mind” meme star previously called the couple’s split “horrendous,” hinting that people were trying to extort him in the divorce proceedings.
“It’s been the most heartbreaking experience in my life,” he told an audience this week, calling the end of his marriage “my deepest personal failure.”
“It’s no one else’s fault but my own … I picked wrong,” he said of the now-ex he married in 2012.
