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Extra data 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 evening. He jumped to his loss of life from a parking storage on the Anaheim, California theme park.
In a social media put up he made simply earlier than his loss of life, Christensen defined it was attributable to 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 comfortable collectively till the mid-November home dispute that altered the course of their lives.
Nonetheless, Christensen’s grownup daughter is now coming ahead to set the file straight; she says that issues had been not clean previous to his suicide. Fairly, 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 manner 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 scenario. First, Brittany claims the current home violence allegations towards her father had been “riddled with lies,” telling the outlet:
“The fees had been inaccurate. [Marlena] has been very tough in our household for concerning the final yr, and we haven’t had any contact along with her. I’d simply now began regaining contact with him over the past two weeks, and it’s been actually nice. He’d been making an attempt to determine learn how to depart her. For my part, it looks as if this, in his thoughts, was his manner out of his relationship.”
She additionally slammed Marlena, claiming her stepmother precipitated a rift amongst Christopher’s prolonged members of the family as nicely:
“She put him in a extremely horrible place that evening and painted an image of him that’s inaccurate of his character, and I feel it obtained an excessive amount of for him. … She’s been abusive to our total household for 5 years. That’s why we don’t have any contact along 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 yr.
In an April 24 textual content, Marlena seems to have written this disturbing notice 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 likely be lacking within the morning.”
Whoa…
Brittany additionally alleged Marlena keyed her automotive throughout a separate home dispute, too. In that incident, which reportedly occurred “just a few months in the past,” Christopher got here to his daughter’s residence in Costa Mesa after an argument with Marlena. Throughout that point, the late faculty principal apparently “tried to interrupt up” along with her — and it went horribly improper.
That evening, he parked his automotive within the lot and stayed in Brittany’s residence. Sooner or later within the evening, although, Marlena arrived on scene. She allegedly keyed Brittany’s automotive and took Chris’ automobile again residence along with her.
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The grieving daughter claimed the injury 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 evening after which coming to my residence and taking [her father’s] automotive. So once we awoke, my dad’s automotive was gone and my automotive had been keyed on each panel.”
In the end, 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 habits in direction of my household for a while now. Though my dad mentions in his put up that their relationship was ‘nice’ up till two weeks in the past, their relationship truly has been poisonous and carrying on each of them.”
And he or she added:
“To be sincere, 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 direction of my household. For my part, 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, nevertheless, make an announcement 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 “dwelling in a nightmare” over it:
“None of you already know the complete story. I’m dwelling 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.”
Nonetheless, 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 shocked by that:
“He appeared form 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 assume he was considering when it comes to killing himself. I simply couldn’t consider it. He didn’t provide to convey [Marlena] or embrace her as a part of the meal or something. I assumed that was form 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 stated 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 assume the connection with Chris and [Marlena] was the very best factor. I didn’t assume she was the very best individual for Chris. He was our youngest son. I assumed 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 complete scenario is simply jaw-dropping. We ship our condolences to those that beloved Christensen and are grieving his stunning loss of life.
When you’ve got honest trigger to suspect baby abuse, name the Childhelp Nationwide Little one Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Little one or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org.
For those who or somebody you already know is experiencing home violence, assist is obtainable. Think about calling the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or textual content START to 88788, or go to https://www.thehotline.org/.
For those who or somebody you already know is considering suicide, assist is obtainable. Think about contacting the 988 Suicide & Disaster Lifeline at 988, by calling, texting, or chatting, or go to 988lifeline.org.
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