Jesse Williams & Ex-Wife Ordered To Mediate Their Custody Battle

The custody drama between Jesse Williams and his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, continues with the court docket ordering them to resolve their variations.

The “Gray’s Anatomy” star and his former lover have been butting heads in court docket for years, earlier than and after they settled their divorce in 2019. The actor has been pushing for equal timeshare with their two children whereas accusing his ex of stirring up bother.

Jesse Williams’ efforts to acquire a greater youngster custody settlement with Aryn Drake-Lee started in September when he implored the court docket to alleviate his issues. Nevertheless, his ex-wife fired again with a plea to dismiss his request, claiming he tried forcing her into accepting his calls for.

In line with authorized paperwork, the court docket ordered Williams and Drake-Lee to resolve their variations by means of meditation. They had been advised to achieve an settlement about their youngster custody association by themselves or seem for a video convention on March 10, 2025.

The exes share two youngsters, a daughter named Sadie and a son named Maceo. Williams and Drake-Lee beforehand agreed to a baby custody schedule that concerned the children spending two in a single day visits with the actor when faculty was in session. Nevertheless, he was displeased with the association.

In September, the TV character aired his grievances in a prolonged declaration to the court docket, stressing that he wanted extra time together with his youngsters.

He defined that he tried to make the outdated system work by shifting nearer to his ex-wife. Nevertheless, in response to In Touch, the variety of transitions was “unnecessarily difficult” for the children.

In addition to the custody association being a problem for the children, Williams famous it led to “pointless interactions” between him and Drake-Lee. To resolve these issues, he requested for 50/50 custody, arguing that he deserved to spend equal time with the children. In his phrases:

“The kids and I are loopy about one another, and we have now a deeply loving, lively, and carefully bonded relationship. There’s completely no cause why Aryn ought to have extra custodial time with the youngsters than me.”

One more reason he needed to change the kid custody association was his ex-wife’s new boyfriend. Williams defined that she advised him about her lover in April, revealing that he had been launched to their children and that she would add him to the college’s pick-up checklist.

Williams implored the court docket to power Drake-Lee to spill every thing about her new boyfriend, noting she refused to reply his questions. “I’ve no real interest in Aryn’s private life; I care about my youngsters’s security,” he defined.

“They’re too younger to have telephones, and I ought to have his contact info/the opposite info required by the judgment,” Williams argued. Nevertheless, his ex-wife shut down his request, claiming he was “out of bounds” for demanding extra info that wasn’t ordered.

Drake-Lee famous she was not obligated to present him any info when he didn’t share particulars associated to his private life. As for his or her youngster custody association, she claimed the film producer loved threatening her with authorized motion, along with her allegations studying:

“[Jesse] makes use of his attorneys to bully [Aryn], often makes threats to take [Aryn] to court docket if she does not comply together with his calls for, normally ungrounded and riddled with lies.”

Throughout his efforts to acquire a greater youngster custody association, The Blast reported that Williams had accused Drake-Lee of interfering each time he tried bonding with their children. He claimed she persistently blocked his FaceTime calls and prevented the youngsters from attending the actions he had organized.

The checklist continued with the entertainer alleging Drake-Lee manipulated their trip schedules to restrict his time with their children. “Inflicting drama and attempting to fracture our kids’s experiences with me is much extra essential to Aryn than their peace, well being, and happiness,” Williams claimed.

The actor’s need to spend equal time together with his children got here two years after he requested a discount in his month-to-month youngster help payments. He defined that coughing up $40,000 was not possible, particularly together with his 2021 exit from the beloved ABC medical drama.

In line with Williams, the favored medical sequence was his major supply of earnings, and with out it, he may not keep the $40,000 youngster help invoice. Whereas on the present, he reportedly earned $6.2 million yearly and picked up $183,000 in residuals.

Following his departure, Williams claimed he skilled a major drop in his earnings and requested for the help payments to be decreased to one thing he may afford. Moreover, he argued that his youngsters didn’t want $40,000 month-to-month to cater to their wants, noting:

“Our kids’s way of life was/is under no circumstances reflective of the $40,000 per 30 days in youngster help. Our kids have a modest way of life. They don’t have costly hobbies or attend costly camps.”

Will Jesse Williams and his ex-wife come to a positive settlement about their youngsters’s custody association?