Catherine Blair Bowman, the spouse of ex-Maroon 5 bassist Mickey Madden, has accused her husband of bodily attacking her after she confronted him about “sexting teenage women.”
In line with courtroom paperwork that have been filed on Wednesday, July 30 in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket and obtained by a number of shops, Bowman is in search of a restraining order in opposition to Madden, 46. Bowman claimed he allegedly bodily assaulted her on July 21 at their Los Angeles residence throughout a confrontation over the textual content messages. (TMZ was the primary to report the claims.)
Per the courtroom filings, Bowman claimed she was “terrified” when Madden went “insane” after she confront him over the texts, which she alleges included “sexting teenagers about his rape fantasy and soliciting lewd photos.”
“I'm fully traumatized by the invention that respondent has been participating in conduct with highschool women that's in all probability felony,” Bowman wrote within the courtroom doc, per Billboard. “After I found this, I approached him about it and stated that I knew what was happening. Respondent then bodily beat me repeatedly.”
Bowman accused Madden of shoving her right into a kitchen counter in addition to chasing her outdoors their residence and pushing her right into a gate.
“He put each his arms round my physique round my stomach and arms to restrain me. He then slammed my physique in opposition to the marble kitchen counter,” she wrote within the courtroom paperwork. “I felt ache in my hip and waist space. He shoved me to the bottom and was out of his thoughts. I landed on my knees. He stored screaming for me to present him the cellphone. He appeared actually insane to me. I had by no means seen such uncontrollable anger and a very totally different individual.”
Per the courtroom filings cited by People, Bowman found the alleged texts after being alerted by a teenage lady who knowledgeable Bowman of the texts she was reportedly receiving from Madden.
Mickey Madden. (Picture by Mike Coppola/Getty Photos)
“I used to be extraordinarily harm and disturbed. I wanted to know what was happening between them,” Bowman's assertion learn. “When he denied it, I requested him handy me his cellphone. He wouldn't hand me his cellphone, however I may see that he was rapidly deleting the proof from his cellphone.”
Per studies, screenshotted textual content messages have been submitted as a part of the courtroom filings together with an trade the place Madden described the sexting as “A non-public and pretend innocent fantasy” and insisted the textual content had “No bearing on actual life in any respect.”
Doing what's greatest. Mickey Madden, the bassist for Maroon 5, introduced his momentary departure from the favored band following his June arrest. “I've some issues that I have to cope with and handle proper now and so I've determined to depart Maroon 5,” the 41-year-old musician stated in an announcement to Rolling Stone. “Throughout […]
In a textual content trade submitted, Madden allegedly texted Bowman: “I'm past sorry for my actions and for participating in any type of expression of these impulses..it's all fully unacceptable. however I've to attract the road at that characterization of what I did ..This was completely relegated to textual content..It's not excusable by any means however I've to make it clear that I'd by no means act on any of that consensual fantasy discuss.”
Folks reported that Bowman additionally accused Madden of “bodily” abusing her in a separate incident which allegedly occurred Could 14.
A decide granted a short lived restraining order which is in place till a scheduled courtroom date of August 20. Madden, who performed bass for Maroon 5 from 1994 till 2020, is at the moment in a rehabilitation facility in response to the courtroom paperwork.
A consultant for Madden couldn't instantly be discovered for remark.
