Halle Berry Accused Of Choking 12-Year-Old Son As Judge Grants Ex’s Temporary Restraining Order

Halle Berry‘s son is now at the center of a tense legal dispute between the actress and her ex-husband Olivier Martinez. The former couple’s 12-year-old son, Maceo, is reportedly the subject of abuse allegations that led a Los Angeles County judge to grant Martinez a temporary restraining order against Berry this week.

According to UsWeekly, Martinez, 60, filed for a domestic violence restraining order on Thursday, October 1, alleging that an incident took place between Berry and their son on September 26th. Martinez claimed Maceo called him asking to be picked up from Berry’s home because she allegedly “physically attacked him and choked him.”

“While on the phone with our son, I heard him panicking and heard [Berry] still yelling at him in the background,” Martinez alleged in the filing. He claimed that when he arrived to pick up Maceo, Berry “did not come out of the home,” but her partner reportedly helped carry the boy’s bags to the car. Martinez also claimed Berry texted him the next morning to apologize for what happened.

Martinez’s filing reportedly goes further, alleging this wasn’t an isolated event. PEOPLE Magazine reported that Martinez claimed Berry grabbed Maceo “by the neck and started choking him while shouting, ‘Who is dominant now?! Who is dominant?’” during the alleged September incident.

He also claimed Berry had previously put Maceo in physical restraints while training in mixed martial arts, and that their son allegedly told her he dislikes being brought into her training sessions, though Berry reportedly “downplayed the incidents.”

Martinez claimed Maceo once told him he wanted to get physical with his mother if it happened again, but that he discouraged his son from physically retaliating against his mother. “The way I was raised I believe that a physical fight between a mother and son should never happen, so I discouraged our son from escalating conflict with his mother to physical violence,” Martinez said in the filing, adding that Maceo allegedly “had to physically fight off his mother to escape” during the September incident. Martinez claimed his son no longer wants to spend time at Berry’s home and appears shaken from the incident.

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