Julia Fox is putting the puzzle pieces together.
The Uncut Gems actress alleged, in a recent TikTok video, that her ex-husband Peter Artemiev baptized their 4-year-old son Valentino without her knowledge. But in his response, the pilot seemed to remember things going down a bit differently.
“Her response to my mom was, ‘I don’t care about religion,’” he told People April 14, insisting that his mother called Julia in February to ask for permission to baptize the toddler. “’If you want to baptize him. Baptize him. I don’t care.'”
As for how Julia said the incident went down? Well, she explained that she only found out about their son’s milestone because, while she and Peter were both at Valentino’s school for a “little performance,” the two walked past a church that prompted her ex to say, “’Oh, this is where Valentino was baptized.’”
Claiming that this was her first time hearing about the baptism, she began to wonder how the ceremony came and went without her having so much as a picture from the occasion.
“I was like, ‘Well, why wasn’t I invited,’” she recalled. “And he was like, ‘You were invited; you just didn’t want to come.’”
And in retelling the series of events, the 35-year-old insisted that, “If I was invited to something like that, I would go.”
In fact, Julia said that the whole conversation transported her “back to being in that relationship of being gaslighted over and over and over until then I freak out and do something.”
“Then he calls me abusive,” she alleged. ”But its reactive abuse, and that’s what happens when you’re being mentally, emotionally, psychologically and physically abused.”
At this point, the model said that she called Peter’s mom to get to the bottom of why she was left in the dark. But during the call, she alleged that his mother told her the priest deemed the ceremony “’a Russian Orthodox thing and only Russian Orthodox people could come.’”
“And it’s like, ‘Wow, now I see where this man gets it from,’” the model said. “Don’t gaslight me. That is a bulls–t excuse. I am this child’s mother. You are not his mother.”
Indeed, Julia alleged that she has been “raising this child alone for four years, doing everything for him, taking him all around the world with me.” And while Peter later alleged to People that Valentino was regularly in his mom’s care, Julia was ultimately enraged that he and his mother “robbed me of an experience.”
The Presence actress went on to say that, during their phone call, Peter’s mom asked her if she was going to “punish me now” by keeping her out of Valentino’s life. But in the best interest of her son, Julia made it clear that she doesn’t “operate like that,” and refuses to separate her son from his grandmother, who he adores, because “he doesn’t know any better.”
“It’s just crazy, like you can’t make this s–t up,” she added, leaving her followers with a word of warning. “These people are f–king animals. Girls. Please. Please from the bottom of my heart. Who you have a child with will dictate the rest of your life. Do not have a child with a loser.”
