Jesse Williams‘ custody battle is starting up again.
On Tuesday (Sept. 10), the 43-year-old Grey’s Anatomy alum filed a request to change his custody agreement with ex-wife Aryn Drake-Lee so that he can spend more time with their two children, daughter Sadie, 10, and son Maceo, 9.
Jesse is asking to alter visitation for his kids, asking to having them at his house Wednesday to Friday and Monday to Wednesday at Aryn‘s house, with weekends split evenly, according to court documents obtained by People.
Keep reading to find out more…In the request, Jesse claimed that their current schedule is “unnecessarily challenging for our children and causes unnecessary interactions between me and Aryn.”
“There is no question that spending more time with me is in the children’s best interests,” Jesse claimed. “The children benefit from the love and stability I provide them, and they continually ask to spend more time with me. I am actively engaged in Sadie’s and Maceo’s lives.”
Also in the documents, Jesse alleged that Aryn has a “bizarre obsession” with excluding him from their kids’ after school activities and claimed that he’s been advocating for a good co-parenting relationship.
He also alleged that there is “good cause” for the kids to “spend less time” with Aryn, claiming that she has obstructed and interfered with his time with the kids. He claimed that his ex-wife blocks his FaceTime calls, prevents him from attending the kids’ activities, and manipulates their vacation schedule to prevent his time with them.
“I have never refused Aryn access to the children. I constantly try to exemplify normal, healthy coparenting behavior in the hope that she will see it works better than chaos and conflict,” Jesse claimed in the documents. “Aryn’s conduct is the opposite — designed to frustrate my custody and impair my relationship with the children, and she has no concern of the impact her conduct has on our children.”
He went on to note that an equal co-parenting approach would “strengthen” his bond with his kids so that they could have the “opportunity to grow up emotionally healthy.”
“Allowing the children to spend at the very least, equal time with me will not only further strengthen our loving bond, it is one of several ways the court can stop the pattern of rewarding Aryn’s toxic, obstructive behavior,” Jesse claimed.
He went on to allege that his ex-wife “has made it her mission since I filed for divorce to weaponize access to the children, demonstrating her personal vendetta is more important than the best interests of our children.”
Jesse first filed for divorce from Aryn in 2017 after five years of marriage and the two have gone back and forth in nasty legal battles over custody and spousal support. At one point, Jesse was ordered to pay Aryn $40,000 a month in child support, but he got that amount significantly dropped.
Just recently, Jesse shared some rare public comments about his children.
