Pamela Bach, left, poses with husband David Hasselhoff in this Aug. 11, 2000 file photo in Los Angeles.
I just can't believe he would be violent against someone...am I just naive?
Posted on 03/09/2006 1:10:40 PM PST by ChandyB71
LOS ANGELES — Less than a month after filing for divorce, the estranged wife of David Hasselhoff is alleging that the former Baywatch star abused her, court records showed.
Actress Pamela Bach, 42, filed a domestic violence order Monday against Hasselhoff, 53, in Los Angeles Superior Court, summary records on the court's website show.
At a private hearing, Bach also asked for a temporary restraining order against the actor but a judge denied the request, instead instructing the two to stay away from each other.
"The court indicated that she should stay where she is and he should stay where he is,'' Hasselhoff's lawyer, Melvin Goldsman said by phone Wednesday, declining comment on the allegations.
Documents pertaining to the hearing have been sealed by the court to protect the pair's two teenaged daughters and their privacy, Goldsman said.
Bach was granted custody of one daughter, while Hasselhoff was given custody of the other, publicist Judy Katz said Wednesday.
Hasselhoff filed for divorce Jan. 12 citing irreconcilable differences after 16 years of marriage. Bach filed her own divorce papers a day later, also citing irreconcilable differences.
Messages left Wednesday at the office of Bach's lawyer were not immediately returned.
Hasselhoff played lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch from 1989 to 2000. He also starred in the 1980s TV series Knight Rider, in which his character, Michael Knight, teamed with a talking Pontiac Trans Am sports car to fight crime.
Bach appeared in the soap opera The Young and The Restless and in numerous episodes of Baywatch and Knight Rider.
Most likely.
"The da%& car told me to do it!!!"
That's making me dizzy.
I wondered how long before the Hasselhoff pics began.... :)
Of course,if the charges are true it should be held against the husband.
Emotional abuse is a whole other story.
I don't believe in "emotional" abuse.
When you are an adult you should be able to handle someone calling you stupid, ugly, lazy, fat, stinky, and wrong. It happends on FR all the time.
Heck I get flipped off occasionally, it doesn't cause me to go into a tail spin.
Flame away!
happends=happens
Yeah, I'm stupid!
At first glance it looks like he's humping a toilet seat in that picture.
The emotional abuse can be an iffy area....Depends on the issues involved.
If someone you think loves you starts hammering away at WHO you are, brings up every fear or weakness you've ever told them to hurt you....well, it can be pretty awful.
Especially if you've entrusted them with your real self (your deepest fear, worst self-doubts etc).....
Heck, I'd rather be hit.
Awwww mannnn!! I did a search too, dangitall. Oh well....the more Hasselhoff the better, IMO!!
LOL...and a toilet seat "spewing" a mess too! :)
Emotional Abuse by a spouse is not easy to get over. I know first hand. It is related and in correlation with mental abuse, wherein, you are constantly demeaned, yelled at, critiqued, blamed, harrassed verbally, and made to feel like you are about as small as an ant.
Even as an adult, this kind of treatment, is worse than physical abuse, IMO and the scars go deeper and take longer to heal. But I'm just speaking from personal experience, others may not agree.
If someone you think loves you starts hammering away at WHO you are, brings up every fear or weakness you've ever told them to hurt you....well, it can be pretty awful.
Don't you think that would be a good indication they don't love you? It isn't an indication that you are not loveable. Now, if they threaten you with physical harm and you believe they are serious, that is a crime. It's called assault whether they actually cause harm or not. It is not "emotional abuse," it is a crime of assault.
Yep, I too have had that experience. It made me tougher, it made me plumb the depths of my character, but it is not the same as being physically assaulted.
As long as you think of yourself as a "victim" of verbal abuse - you will be - and it's your own fault. IMHO
I guess it's because
a. I'm emotionally fragile and
b. I work with the emotionally, mentally & physically fragile.
Believe me, I would rather be slapped than be verbally slashed by someone that I thought loved me (parent, spouse, sibling). Really, for you NOT to hurt me means I feel nothing for you.
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