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Catherine Blair Bowman, the wife of former Maroon 5 bassist Mickey Madden, wrote that she was “terrified” of him in new court filings and alleged that he physically assaulted her after she confronted him about “sexting with teenage girls.”
Bowman is seeking a restraining order against Madden, 46, in new documents filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday, July 30. The documents note that the musician is currently in a rehabilitation facility. A judge granted a temporary restraining order, effective until a court date scheduled for Aug. 20.
The restraining order also covers their two huskies, Toast and Jam. Bowman and Madden do not have children. The documents obtained by PEOPLE indicate the date of the alleged physical assault was July 21.
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Bowman claimed that on July 21, she received a message from a teenage girl alerting her to Madden’s alleged sexts with her. “I was extremely hurt and disturbed. I needed to understand what was going on between them,” Bowman’s statement read.
Bowman then described the alleged incident of assault in detail. “When he denied it, I asked him to hand me his phone,” she wrote. “He would not hand me his phone, but I could see that he was quickly deleting the evidence from his phone.”
After grabbing the phone and running out of the house, Bowman alleged that Madden “became enraged.”
“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,” Bowman’s filing alleged.
The documents also allege that another incident of abuse took place on May 14. “He physically abused me. Extreme emotional harm. I’m now terrified of him,” Bowman wrote.
In screenshotted text messages submitted in the request for a restraining order, Madden allegedly referred to the sexting as “A private and fake harmless fantasy” that had “No bearing on real life at all.”
In the alleged text messages, Bowman wrote, “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.” Bowman then appeared to allude via text that she similarly experienced an abusive relationship with an older man as a teenager.
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Madden allegedly responded, “I am beyond sorry for my actions and for engaging in any form of expression of those impulses..it’s all completely unacceptable. but I have to draw the line at that characterization of what I did ..This was entirely relegated to text..It’s not excusable by any means but I have to make it clear that I would never act on any of that consensual fantasy talk.”
In the documents obtained by PEOPLE, Bowman also alleged that Madden “withheld” sex from her after she expressed a desire to conceive a child together, and instead began sleeping with a “prostitute.”
Madden left Maroon 5 in 2020, two weeks after an alleged incident of domestic violence. In June 2020, he was arrested on a felony charge in Los Angeles, according to jail records. He was released on the same day after posting his $50,000 bond.
In 2016, Madden was arrested for cocaine possession in New York City. He took a deal with prosecutors, agreeing to one day of community service.
A representative or direct contact for Madden could not be located at the time of publication.
If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.
