Javaughn Young-White says he regrets his word choice in a filing he made in his custody lawsuit against Kehlani , claiming on Friday that his former attorney had submitted the complaint “without my approval.” The complaint included claims that Kehlani was in a cult. Young White’s statement comes days after he and Kehlani slammed TMZ for their coverage of the custody fight over their daughter Adeya.
“These documents contained general recollections from my initial consultation with my aforementioned rep,” he wrote on Friday. “They were filed with choice language I didn’t okay. I regret they were included.
” The initial filing described Kehlani’s ties to santería, an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Yoruba and Catholic beliefs, as being part of a cult. (TMZ called it a sex cult.) The initial filing also claimed a former priest of a religious group, who had been accused of sexual abuse, had been in the care of his daughter.
A post shared by @javaughnyw In Friday’s statement, Young-White said the information about the priest had been circulated by “parties attempting to use allegations and vocabulary to escalate their own disputes within the church,” and that his daughter “was no longer affiliated” with the church when the allegations occurred. “I was still deeply distressed about the direct care of my child. From my perspective, I was being told the consequences of alarming decision-making that could have ended quite differently,” he wrote.
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