Exes Damon Gillespie and Grace Aki sue each other over domestic violence allegations

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Damon Gillespie and actress and YouTuber Grace Aki met while working in musical theater in 2014, bonding over their love of Broadway and show tunes.The pair, whose engagement was reported by People Magazine, married in October 2018, but by last summer, the music was over, according to court papers.

Now the two have traded lawsuits against each other. A month before their July 2021 split was official, Aki went on her podcast, “Tell Me on a Sunday,” for an episode about domestic violence, describing her own experience with abuse and claiming Gillespie physically abused and threatened her.

She referred to the actor not by name, but only as her “husband,” calling him a “monster, abusive, narcissistic, arrogant, entitled asshole,” legal papers show.Gillespie, 28, responded by filing a September lawsuit against his ex-wife in Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming her allegations had damaged his reputation and cost him work.

Gillespie, who starred in the 2018 NBC TV drama, “Rise,” has also appeared on “Inside Amy Schumer” and had a role in Netflix’s “Tiny Pretty Things.”Gillespie’s true nature didn’t become clear to Aki until 2019, she said in her own Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Friday.It was not until 2019 that she “began to realize that the man she married had concealed vicious personality traits from her,” Aki said in her own Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit against him, filed Friday.Gillespie verbally harassed, pushed and shoved her, and at one point, abandoned her alone in a foreign country, Aki alleged in the legal papers.She claims he left their home early in the pandemic, returning without explanation months later.