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Christian Obumseli, the slain boyfriend of model Courtney Clenney, alleged his girlfriend verbally and physically abused him in the weeks before she stabbed him to death, new texts reveal per Fox News.
"Is love going to kill me?" Obumseli, 27, wrote in a February message to Clenney, 26, adding that he felt "stupid" for staying with her after she allegedly cheated on him and sliced his face with a knife.
Weeks later an April 3 stabbing left the 27-year-old dead in the Miami apartment he shared with Clenney. Clenney was charged with second-degree murder for taking a knife to his chest.
The couple's text exchange was released on Thursday (November 3) by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office.
"Like I honestly feel like s--- my face feels f---ed. the front and back," another message from Obumseli reads. "I always think about damn man OK Christian you took all this why because you love her OK time after time after time after time I tell you hey please like you're hurting me and yes you'll say yeah but then it just repeats. Like what if the knife sliced my lip and it wasn't sliced by my beard? My cheek? My eye? What might happen next time?"
Obumseli said the alleged knifing resulted in $4,000 in hospital bills and one of the "worst" months of his life.
"February was the worst month I had so far," Obumseli told his girlfriend. "I got cheated on. I got called that word again. I got slapped in my stitches that has re-opened multiple times."
"Regardless of what I went through the first person that I wanted to see was you," he continued in the messages.
"Like honestly think to yourself like damn like I've cut this person's face I have stabbed him," the 27-year-old added. "Your boyfriends black and you're calling him that? Your boyfriend isn't dirt why are you spitting on him?
Audio recordings released on Wednesday (November 2) revealed that Clenney hurled racial slurs at her boyfriend while he was repeatedly apologizing to her.
Her lawyers, Frank Prieto and Sabrina Pugilisi, have argued that the stabbing was an act of self-defense.
"The evidence makes it very clear the two were in a toxic and dysfunctional relationship," the lawyers said in a statement. "She’s not going to trial for her lifestyle, her previous arguments, or recorded rants. She is going to trial for defending herself against a violent struggle with her ex-boyfriend for which she feared for her life; Courtney is a victim of domestic abuse."
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