
Chet Hanks, 30, insisted his “life was in jeopardy” after accusing his ex-girlfriend of allegedly assaulting him with a pot and knife, according to court documents that he filed on March 4. This was one claim among many that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson‘s son made in the new court papers that accused his ex of assault and theft, which were reviewed by HollywoodLife on March 31. However, Kiana — who said she began dating Chet in March of 2019 and became an official couple with him in March of 2020 — accused Chet of being “hostile” and has already obtained a temporary restraining order against the actor over past alleged incidents (more on that below).

On the very next day (Jan. 8, 2021), Chet claimed that his ex brought “three menacing large men,” one of which allegedly had a gun. However, Chet claimed that it was his ex who approached him while “holding a pot and a knife,” according to page three of the complaint. Chet goes on to accuse his ex of smashing him “over the face with the pot and [cutting] him with the knife,” which led him to bleed “profusely.” Chet then claimed that his ex “started to videotape” him and make “extortionist threats” after “realizing that she was in trouble,” according to the court documents.

Chet’s lawyer was referring to a video in which Tom’s son could be seen with blood trickling down his head — SEEN HERE — that appeared to be taken during the alleged altercation in Chet’s Sugarland home in Texas, and published by TMZ on March 31. While the video doesn’t show who or what caused the injury, you could hear Chet say to his ex at the beginning of the clip, “You’re threatening me with a knife?” His ex then seemingly swiped at him with her empty hand (not the one holding the pot). The camera became a blur of motion, and it’s unclear what exactly happened. The video then started with a new clip, showing Chet with a bloody head.

“She’s mad because I caught her stealing. Stealing my money. Taking my credit cards, charging her rent to them, s–t like that,” Chet said in another clip in the video, reiterating the claims he made in his lawsuit. However, Kiana believes that it was Chet who was violent to her. She filed for a temporary restraining order in Jan. 2021, which she received, since the court found that “family violence has occurred, was committed by Chester Marlon Hanks, and there is a clear and present danger that family violence committed by Chester Marlon Hanks is likely to occur again in the future, unless restrained by the Court as shown below,” according to a document from the Fort Bend County District Clerk’s office obtained by HollywoodLife.
Kiana presented a much different version of events that played out “on or about” Jan. 8, 2021, which was detailed in her request for the temporary restraining order that was also reviewed by HollywoodLife. Unlike the “three menacing men” that Chet claimed his ex brought, Kiana wrote that she arrived to move out of their shared Sugarland home with her assistant, movers and a handyman. “As I was packing, he started following me around the house, standing in front me, questioning me, intentionally brushing against me and bumping me, overall being hostile as if he was intentionally trying to start a dispute,” Kiana wrote in the affidavit, which you can read below.

Kiana wrote that she was “screaming for help” as this all went down, and eventually, a man driving by stopped and called the police. This wasn’t the first alleged incident involving Chet that she detailed, either, in her affidavit. During a hotel stay in New Orleans where Chet was filming Your Honor in Oct. 2020, Kiana claimed that Chet started “harassing [her] verbally and forcefully shoving” her and eventually broke her phone as she attempted to leave the room. She also accused Chet of making threats like, “if [Kiana] left he would jump off the balcony.”
Chet’s legal drama is happening amid backlash he is facing for saying in a video, “I just got this feeling man that this summer is about to be a white boy summer.” Many fans — specifically Tom Hank’s — cringed that his son had turned the expression coined for Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj‘s “Hot Girl Summer” track into something of his own.
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