Actor Drake Bell has denied allegations of abuse leveled towards him by his ex-girlfriend, Melissa Lingafelt.
Lingafelt took to TikTok Wednesday and alleged that Bell verbally and bodily abused her once they had been in a relationship and lived collectively.
A consultant for Bell has now spoken out towards the allegations to Variety, and the actor has denied bodily assaulting his ex.
Nonetheless, he did state that each events engaged in heated arguments on the finish of their three-year relationship.
“I by no means abused my ex-girlfriend or did so lots of the different issues Melissa falsely claimed on her TikTok video,” Bell’s assertion reads.
“As our relationship ended — greater than a decade in the past — we, sadly, each known as one another horrible names, as usually occurs when {couples} are breaking apart.”
Bell goes on to state that he was giving Melissa monetary help only a yr in the past.
“However that’s it. Clearly, Melissa nonetheless felt shut sufficient to me simply final yr that she was comfy reaching out to ask me to supply her with monetary help throughout a tricky time (which I did).”
“I have no idea if at this time’s habits is a few form of misguided quest for more cash or consideration,” he added, earlier than stating that he might take authorized motion towards Melissa.
“However I can not and won’t permit these offensive and defamatory allegations to go unchallenged and I’m reviewing my authorized choices.”
Melissa, for her half, shared a montage of pictures of her and Bell, and narrated her allegations on the video sharing web site.
“First, I want to begin out with saying I don’t actually care if anybody believes me as that is my story and my life and one thing I went via,” she defined, expounding as follows:
“It wasn’t till not too long ago that I really realized that abuse is one thing that every one girls should undergo.”
“Once I began relationship Drake, I used to be 16. I used to be home-schooled. I moved in with him. I used to be singing. It wasn’t till a couple of yr when the verbal abuse began.”
She went on to element the abuse.
“And once I say verbal abuse, think about the worst kind of verbal abuse you might ever think about, and that was what I bought.”
She then detailed an occasion through which Bell allegedly dragged her down the steps.
“It then become bodily — hitting, throwing, every part. On the pinnacle of it, he drug me down the steps of our home in Los Feliz.”
“My face hit each step on the way in which down. I’ve pictures of this. I do not even need to get into the underage ladies factor. I imply I’ll, however I am scared.”
Lingafelt later up to date her publish with what seemed to be textual content messages with different folks allegedly saying he was abusive.
A type of names is Gillian Leos, who claims she dated Bell and that he’s a “narcissistic sociopath” who broke each single telephone she had whereas relationship.
Paul Dailly is the Affiliate Editor for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.