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Extra info is coming to mild following a stunning suicide at Disneyland.
As we reported on Tuesday, 51-year-old elementary faculty principal Christopher Christensen was recognized as the person who died on the “Happiest Place On Earth” on Saturday night time. He jumped to his loss of life from a parking storage on the Anaheim, California theme park.
In a social media publish he made simply earlier than his loss of life, Christensen defined it was on account of his current arrest on baby endangerment and home battery costs. As we reported, the elementary faculty principal had been arrested in mid-November following an alleged home dispute along with his spouse, Marlena.
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In his on-line message previous to the suicide, Christensen blamed his loss of life on the authorized course of after his arrest. He additionally claimed he and Marlena had been blissful collectively till the mid-November home dispute that altered the course of their lives.
Nevertheless, Christensen’s grownup daughter is now coming ahead to set the file straight; she says that issues have been not clean previous to his suicide. Quite, she claims in a brand new interview that the principal was in a “poisonous” relationship along with his “abusive” spouse — and doubtless noticed suicide as “his method out” of their terrible marriage. Rattling.
Brittany Christensen, the late principal’s 26-year-old daughter from a earlier relationship, spoke to DailyMail.com concerning the unhappy state of affairs. First, Brittany claims the current home violence allegations in opposition to her father have been “riddled with lies,” telling the outlet:
“The costs have been inaccurate. [Marlena] has been very troublesome in our household for concerning the final 12 months, and we haven’t had any contact together with her. I’d simply now began regaining contact with him during the last two weeks, and it’s been actually nice. He’d been making an attempt to determine the right way to go away her. In my view, it looks like this, in his thoughts, was his method out of his relationship.”
She additionally slammed Marlena, claiming her stepmother brought on a rift amongst Christopher’s prolonged relations as properly:
“She put him in a extremely horrible place that night time and painted an image of him that’s inaccurate of his character, and I feel it bought an excessive amount of for him. … She’s been abusive to our whole household for 5 years. That’s why we don’t have any contact together with her any extra.”
Brittany appeared to again up her accusations, too. She shared screenshots of previous textual content messages from an argument she’d had with Marlena again in April of this 12 months.
In an April 24 textual content, Marlena seems to have written this disturbing be aware to Brittany:
“You’re a horrible disgusting excuse for a daughter and sister. Go discover your Dad, play the hero. Nevertheless it’s me he will probably be lacking within the morning.”
Whoa…
Brittany additionally alleged Marlena keyed her automobile throughout a separate home dispute, too. In that incident, which reportedly occurred “a number of months in the past,” Christopher got here to his daughter’s house in Costa Mesa after an argument with Marlena. Throughout that point, the late faculty principal apparently “tried to interrupt up” together with her — and it went horribly flawed.
That night time, he parked his automobile within the lot and stayed in Brittany’s house. In some unspecified time in the future within the night time, although, Marlena arrived on scene. She allegedly keyed Brittany’s automobile and took Chris’ car again residence together with her.
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The grieving daughter claimed the harm got here out to $6,000. She even filed a police report over the incident, for what good that did:
“It was unresolved as a result of she didn’t admit to something, however we had footage from her doorbell digital camera leaving the home in the midst of the night time after which coming to my house and taking [her father’s] automobile. So once we awoke, my dad’s automobile was gone and my automobile had been keyed on each panel.”
Finally, Brittany explains how issues weren’t good at residence for her father for a while:
“Marlena has proven a constant sample of manipulation and inappropriate conduct in the direction of my household for a while now. Though my dad mentions in his publish that their relationship was ‘nice’ up till two weeks in the past, their relationship surely has been poisonous and sporting on each of them.”
And he or she added:
“To be trustworthy, I by no means thought I did something to her however she refused to ever apologize for her phrases or actions, even when she reacted extraordinarily in the direction of my household. In my view, it was a gradual chipping away at my dad’s soul for for much longer than simply two weeks and I want at this stage she may have left my household alone.”
Marlena did n’t reply to the outlet’s request for touch upon these stunning claims. She did, nonetheless, make a press release about the entire thing on Fb.
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Per the outlet, within the days following her husband’s loss of life, Marlena wrote in a remark that she was “residing in a nightmare” over it:
“None of the complete story. I’m residing in a nightmare and making an attempt to grieve. Chris was the love of my life and I’m crushed at what occurred. I didn’t make him do that and it’s not my fault. I’m not sick — I simply know in my coronary heart what’s true.”
Nevertheless, the outlet did additionally handle to interview Christopher’s mom Karen. The 85-year-old spoke about how her son had lately visited her residence for Thanksgiving with out bringing Marlena over. On the time, the household matriarch was stunned by that:
“He appeared sort of depressed after he served me and my different son the Thanksgiving meal. He laid upstairs for an hour or two not saying or doing something. He appeared very depressed. However I didn’t suppose he was considering when it comes to killing himself. I simply couldn’t consider it. He didn’t supply to convey [Marlena] or embody her as a part of the meal or something. I believed that was sort of unusual.”
Karen additionally recalled one other current time the place Christopher went over to her residence to swim within the pool. He was alone for that, too — and cryptically mentioned he wasn’t going to convey Marlena round any longer:
“When he was swimming right here one time a month in the past or so, he talked about the truth that he won’t convey her again over for swimming once more. At the moment I didn’t know what it meant precisely. I didn’t suppose the connection with Chris and [Marlena] was the most effective factor. I didn’t suppose she was the most effective particular person for Chris. He was our youngest son. I believed he’d be outliving all the remainder of us. I’m simply so upset over it.”
Wow. So unhappy.
Right here’s extra on the aftermath of Christensen’s suicide, and its impact on these he labored with and taught at his elementary faculty within the Fountain Valley space:
This entire state of affairs is simply jaw-dropping. We ship our condolences to those that liked Christensen and are grieving his stunning loss of life.
You probably have honest trigger to suspect baby abuse, name the Childhelp Nationwide Youngster Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Youngster or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org.
If you happen to or somebody is experiencing home violence, assist is out there. Contemplate calling the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or textual content START to 88788, or go to https://www.thehotline.org/.
If you happen to or somebody is considering suicide, assist is out there. Contemplate contacting the 988 Suicide & Disaster Lifeline at 988, by calling, texting, or chatting, or go to 988lifeline.org.
[Image via ABC7 News/YouTube/Fountain Valley School District]
