Former Maroon 5 bassist’s wife accuses him of domestic violence and sexting teenager
Former Maroon 5 bassist, Mickey Madden, has been accused of domestic violence by his wife, Catherine Bowman, who also alleged that he sexted a teenage girl.
Bowman filed for a restraining order in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on July 30th and has since been granted a temporary restraining order against Madden until a court date on August 20th.
In court documents obtained by People, it’s alleged that the physical assault took place on July 21st, and the publication also claims Madden is currently in a rehabilitation facility.
In the filing, Bowman writes that she received a message from a teenage girl on July 21st that alerted her to contact between her and Madden. Bowman’s statement read: “I was extremely hurt and disturbed. I needed to understand what was going on between them.”
“When he denied it, I asked him to hand me his phone,” she wrote in court documents. “He would not hand me his phone, but I could see that he was quickly deleting the evidence from his phone.”Bowman also alleges that Madden “became enraged” after she took his phone and ran from the property.
Her legal filing states of the alleged attack: “He put both his arms around my body around my abdomen and arms to restrain me. He then slammed my body against the marble kitchen counter. I felt pain in my hip and waist area. He shoved me to the ground and was out of his mind. I landed on my knees. He kept screaming for me to give him the phone. He appeared literally insane to me. I had never seen such uncontrollable anger and a completely different person.”
She also wrote in the filings: “He physically abused me. Extreme emotional harm. I’m now terrified of him.”
In screenshotted messages submitted in the restraining order request, Madden allegedly described the communication between him and the teenage girl as “a private and fake harmless fantasy” which had “no bearing on real life at all”.
A message from Bowman also reads: “Mickey. I do not know the man who hires 18 year old prostitutes to text them about wanting to be their stepdad and rape them while we are on our honeymoon.”
Another alleged message from Madden reportedly claims he wrote that he was “beyond sorry for my actions and for engaging in any form of expression of those impulses” and maintained “that I would never act on any of that consensual fantasy talk”.
Madden served as bassist in Maroon 5 from 1994 until 2020, when he left the band after domestic abuse accusations surfaced.
Madden is yet to comment on the restraining order lawsuit.
For help, advice or more information regarding domestic abuse in the UK, visit the Refuge charity website. In the US, visit the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
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