Her estranged husband Austin Chick claims he cheated on him

Sep 26, 2015 07:53 GMT  ·  By
Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie make first public appearance as a couple at post-Emmys 2015 bash
   Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie make first public appearance as a couple at post-Emmys 2015 bash

At one of the many after-Emmys 2015 parties last weekend, “Gotham” co-stars Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie made all fans’ dreams come true by stepping out as a couple in real-life too, for the first time. News broke hours ago that they’re also expecting a child together, and Morena’s current husband is furious about it.

Austin Chick filed for divorce from Baccarin in July, and the two have been locked in a bitter custody fight over son Julius since. In a new twist in the proceedings, Chick is accusing the actress of cheating on him and providing a confusing environment for Julius, TMZ reports.

New romance is making things worse with the ex

As you see in the tweet below, the pregnancy with McKenzie has been confirmed by McKenzie himself, who retweeted a congratulatory message from his sister. There is no timeline for when his romance with Baccarin started, but her ex is saying that it begun when she was still with him.

In other words, her cheating ruined their marriage. He wants full custody of Julius, on the grounds that she’s confusing the boy with her erratic personal life, which will soon include another child, by another man.   

In court documents obtained by TMZ, he cites an August incident, 2 months after the divorce filing, when he came home to found Ben fresh out of the shower, playing with Julius. He had clearly spent the night there.

Moreover, he says Baccarin told him she’s 3 and a half months along with the new pregnancy.

“This places the moment of conception right in the first week of June, 2015, the time she was telling me she wanted to work on our marriage and well before we stopped sharing a bed,” he writes.

He said, she said

The implication here is that Baccarin started sleeping with her co-star some time before the marriage to Chick was over, which probably ended it.

As the divorce and custody battle is taking a nasty turn, it becomes clear that this is a typical case of “he said, she said.” In previous court documents, Baccarin claimed that she and Chick first started discussing the possibility of divorce in March, which would mean that the marriage was over de facto by the time she and McKenzie started dating.

For the time being, Baccarin is yet to address the claims made by her estranged husband in the latest round of court documents.