Artem Chigvintsev is firing once more at Nikki Garcia (Bella) of their ugly divorce, claiming she totally made up house violence allegations that landed him behind bars — allegations she detailed in a restraining order she obtained Monday.
In new approved paperwork, obtained by TMZ, Artem painted the retired WWE star as a result of the aggressor with anger factors that led to his arrest in late August, lastly destroying their 2-year marriage.
Artem moreover filed photos with the courtroom docket, exhibiting accidents to his hand, elbow and the once more of his head … claiming Nikki was responsible for all of it.
On August 29, Artem says he was cooking breakfast for the now-estranged couple’s 4-year-old son, Matteo, of their Napa County, California home. He says Nikki was moreover present, stressing over what to placed on to an upcoming Netflix event.
The earlier “Dancing with the Stars” solid member says Nikki started arguing with him over his failure, in her view, to adequately toast the bread.
Artem says their dispute escalated after Nikki chastised him for placing two meals decisions — a quesadilla and rooster tenders — in Matteo’s lunch discipline.
Artem says he left the kitchen and went into the lounge, the place he helped Matteo put together for varsity.
Nikki allegedly bought right here into the room and yelled at Artem, saying he couldn’t even put Matteo’s footwear on appropriately.
Artem says he defended himself, which solely made Nikki angrier, prompting her to throw the sneakers at him and strike him inside the chest.
As Nikki screamed about getting a divorce, Artem says Matteo merely stood there frightened and confused.
Artem says he pleaded with Nikki to calm down and launched Matteo upstairs to his room to protect him from the escalating state of affairs.
Artem says Nikki adopted them to the mattress room and tried to strain open the door, whereas he held it closed with Matteo crying subsequent to him.
All through their wrestle, Artem says he squeezed by a niche inside the door to push his technique out of the room so Matteo wouldn’t be uncovered to their wrestle.
In line with Artem, that’s when Nikki shoved her technique contained within the room and bodily attacked him.
Artem says he tried to fend off Nikki as the two ended up grappling on the bottom.
Artem says he broke free and referred to as 911 from his cell phone, telling the dispatcher what occurred as Nikki shouted threats inside the background.
In Artem’s account of the incident, Nikki said at one degree, “Do you understand proper right here that’s gonna go now Artem. You merely ruined my occupation and also you already understand it.”
However, in Nikki’s mannequin of events in her restraining order in opposition to Artem — after the breakfast disagreement and the shoe-throwing incident, she claims she tried to get into Matteo’s room, and Artem opened the door and tackled her to the underside outside Matteo’s room.
She says Artem then went once more into Matteo’s room and closed the door — and he or she says she as soon as extra tried to push open the door, and he then opened it and pushed her all through the hall into the couple’s mattress room, forcing her to the bottom of their toilet. She says he had his fingers on her chest near her sternum, pressing down — she says she felt like she was suffocating — and he or she says she grabbed at his neck in an attempt to get him off.
After the cops arrived, Artem says he gave his account and Nikki equipped her story, which he says was a pack of lies to get him arrested for house violence. Artem was then carted off to jail to pose for a mug shot.
What’s curious … if police had seen accidents to Artem after they arrived on the house, commonplace course of would have been to arrest Nikki for house violence, nonetheless that didn’t happen.
The Napa County District Authorized skilled decided to not price Artem on account of insufficient proof.
In his courtroom docket submitting, Artem sought a brief lived restraining order in opposition to Nikki, and the determine signed off on it.
As you already know, Nikki filed for divorce from Artem after their nasty altercation. It’s unclear in the event that they’ve a prenup.