Say it Ain’t so?
Actor, Terrence Howard estranged wife Michelle Howard took out a restraining order against the actor, claiming that Terrence assaulted her and threatened to take her life.
The Oscar-nominated actor, was ordered Tuesday to stay 100 yards away from his estranged wife, Michelle Howard, who claims that Terrence consistently abused throughout her during their short marriage, and even threatened to kill her.
The actor later countersued claiming that Michelle actions is nothing but a desperate act to get money from him. Howard. in his own sworn declaration, wrote that he has never threatened his wife and that she has repeatedly vowed to ruin his reputation and release private details.
Michelle Howard wrote that Howard has hit her several times and he threatened to throw her from a hotel balcony in South Africa last year. She included a text message she said he sent to her on Thursday in which he begged her not to pursue the divorce and threaten his career, ending the message saying, “I can’t promise how I will respond.”
Howard wrote in his filing that he immediately followed up the message with another text stating that he wasn’t threatening her.
“Despite my efforts to remove myself physically from (Howard’s) life, his periodic mood swings from anger, threats and violence to statements of love and requests for reconciliation continue and have not subsided,” she wrote.
Howard, who is currently on “Law and Order: Los Angeles,” appeared in the first “Iron Man” film and in the Oscar-winning ensemble film “Crash” and received an Oscar nomination in 2005 for his role in “Hustle and Flow.”