Why are you so insecure?
(audience laughs)
My family makes me insecure.
Why?
'Cause I don't trust them.
Well, were you insecure when your son was four years old
and you were screamin' and yellin' at him?
What happened was one time, I was doing something
and Nicholas interrupted me something and I barked at him
and he peed his pants.
And what happened was there was because he's not yelled at
all the time, I shocked him and scared him.
(audience murmurs)
That's your version.
No, that's not my version.
That's his version too.
He doesn't even remember the incident.
Do you poke these kids
in the stomach with your fingers?
Have you done that to get their attention?
Yes, a couple of times.
Not regularly, a couple of times.
Have you stood 'em against the wall and--
Stand in the corner.
And stood against the wall and acted like you were gonna
hit 'em with your fist?
No.
You haven't done that?
No, no. Oh, oh.
So this is the incident.
Not yet, butt out.
Listen, if I need your help, I know right where you are.
So let me tell you, I know the situation.
I'm just askin'.
It's a yes or no question.
No, it's not a yes or no question.
Actually it is.
You can explain if it's a yes.
If it's a no, we can move on.
So the answer is no.
Okay, we can move on then 'cause they're lying
and I'll let them explain that when I talk to 'em.
Well, can I explain the situation?
If it's no, there's nothing to explain.
Oh, yes, there is 'cause there was a situation.
So it's a yes?
No, no, there was a situation.
(audience laughs)
There was an incident where Chloe had done something.
I went into her bedroom to confront her about it.
Started off nice and calm and then she got into my face
and started screaming and yelling at me.
Again, I called for my wife to come and help.
She refused to come and help
and then Chloe, she was acting like an adult,
so what I did was I did grab her, held her,
and I said to her, I said,
"If you're gonna start acting like an adult,
"you're gonna get treated like an adult.
"Stop doing this."
She was getting right in my face, this close,
cussing, yelling, the whole nine,
so the incident was a non-incident.
It was just like Chloe, whatever you did, blah, blah,
don't do it again.
And she's very defensive.
She's an attention seeker.
She's been from the age of four or five,
was identified as a control freak,
yes, by her teacher.
She was identified.
Did you tell her "If you kill yourself,
"don't make a mess on the carpet"?
No, I never said that.
If she kills herself?
"Chloe, if you kill yourself,
"don't make a mess on the carpet."
Well, I don't remember that
and I would never say something like that
but I don't remember that at all.
I don't even know what's the context.
The context is she was going through a depression
at the age of 13 and told us that.
Yeah, well, I was going through a depression
at the age of 13 too.
What?
Have you slammed Chloe to the ground?
Nope.
When she was 14?
Nope.
Again, that situation--
Did you elbow her in the face
when she was trying to intervene?
No, never.
What are you saying yes for?
That never happened.
Were you arrested on July 20th of 2014?
Yes, I was.
And were you charged
with getting physical?
Five counts of uttering threats.
And making terroristic threats?
No, five counts of uttering threats.
That you were gonna brutalize your family?
Yeah, so let me tell you,
and it's a statement.
I tell this story to everyone and I own up to what I did.
Yeah, so the incident was 45 minutes long
45 minutes long,
where you sat on your perch and did nothing.
Situation was I was in the basement workin' out.
My wife was upstairs doin' her makeup.
Kids were on the ground floor.
Chloe went and hurt Nicholas.
She grabbed him by the ears and yanked down and injured him.
I didn't know about that.
No one knew about that.
Nick starts cussing on the main floor.
I slowly came up the stairs,
waiting for mom to say something because--
Slowly came up the stairs?
Yes.
You need to know the story because you still dream about it.
I was there. (laughs)
No, you weren't there.
You were up the bedroom, hiding behind doors.
No, I was actually there.
And so what happened was,
actually, Nicholas had yelled "Dammit"
just as I got to the top of the stairs.
You yelled from behind closed doors,
"Nicholas, watch your mouth."
Nicholas turns around and says, "(beep) you, Mom."
That's when I came out the door
and I leaned over the island and I said,
"Nicholas, watch your (beep) mouth.
"Don't talk to your mother like that."
(audience laughs)
Yeah, that's fine.
Swearing in our house happens.
(audience laughs)
They were down in the basement.
You're exhausting.