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Jimmie Allen Denies Assault & Sexual Abuse Allegations
Content warning: This nonfiction contains notation of termination and intersexual assault.
Jimmie Allen is getting honorable astir a challenging idiosyncratic period.
Almost 1 twelvemonth aft his former manager sued him for intersexual assault, the "Best Shot" vocalist shared details astir however helium struggled with his intelligence wellness successful the months following. In fact, helium said helium adjacent contemplated termination arsenic a means of supporting his household financially aft a fig of his concern deals were allegedly pulled pursuing the lawsuit.
"The archetypal happening my encephalon goes to is not the career," helium told Kathie Lee Gifford in an April 24 YouTube video. "It's, 'how americium I going to supply for my kids?' I had 3 then. I'm reasoning to myself, however americium I going to supply for my family? And past it deed me. My beingness security covered suicide."
And though helium clarified helium doesn't "feel that mode now," Jimmie—who is begetter to son Aadyn, 9, from a erstwhile relationship, daughters Naomi, 4, and Zara, 2, and son Cohen, 6 months, with estranged wife Alexis Gale, and twins Amari and Aria whom helium welcomed past summertime with a person named Danielle—did item however adjacent helium came to making that decision.
As helium told Kathie, determination was 1 time helium began loading his weapon successful a edifice country erstwhile a substance from a person came successful astatine conscionable the close time.
"He said, ‘Ending it isn't the answer.' And erstwhile I work those words that helium texted me, I work them again. I conscionable stopped," the 38-year-old explained. "I retrieve I called 1 of my buddies that lived successful little Delaware. He came up. I gave him my gun. I said, ‘Take it. I don't request it.'"
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And though helium said helium concisely turned to drugs to assistance him cope, Jimmie said he it was going to a retreat and beginning to spot a therapist that helped him crook the corner.
"Every azygous time I retrieve battling, ‘Do I privation to live? Do I not privation to live?'" helium recalled. "I'm like, ‘Man, my household would person X magnitude of dollars if I would've [taken] attraction of something. But I realized that's not the mode to bash it."
He added, "I americium healing and increasing for maine and my children."
In May 2023, Jimmie's former manager filed a lawsuit nether the pseudonym Jane Doe that alleged Jimmie sexually assaulted her implicit a play of 18 months. In documents obtained by E! News astatine the time, she alleges that successful 1 lawsuit helium assaulted her "while she was incapacitated and incapable of giving consent" and stated "he sexually abused her astatine reddish lights, successful greenish rooms, connected airplanes, and successful different places she was required to beryllium to enactment him astatine events."
At the time, Jimmie denied immoderate wrongdoing, stating that their narration had been consensual.
"It is profoundly troubling and hurtful that idiosyncratic I counted arsenic 1 of my closest friends, colleagues and confidants would marque allegations that person nary information to them whatsoever," helium said successful a May 11 connection to E! News. "I admit that we had a intersexual relationship—one that lasted for astir 2 years."
"During that time," helium continued, "she ne'er erstwhile accused maine of immoderate wrongdoing, and she spoke of our narration and relationship arsenic being thing she wanted to proceed indefinitely."
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In March, the suit was dropped, per People, with Jimmie and his erstwhile manager agreeing to debar litigation.
"FeganScott tin corroborate that Jane Doe and Jimmie Allen person reached a communal accord arsenic to Plaintiff's claims and Mr. Allen's counterclaims and person agreed to disregard them," Jane Doe's ineligible squad from FeganScott LLC told People. "The determination reflects lone that some parties tendency to determination past litigation."
Lawyer Elizabeth Fegan added successful an further connection to the outlet, "While Allen and my lawsuit reached an statement anterior to trial, the motivations remained true—to clasp Allen accountable, which we succeeded successful doing. My lawsuit stands by her statements successful the complaint, that Allen raped her portion she was incapacitated and sexually abused her portion she was his day-to-day manger."
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, telephone 988 to scope the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You tin besides telephone the network, antecedently known arsenic the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, astatine 800-273-8255, substance HOME to 741741 oregon sojourn SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for further resources.
