Minnesota Vikings star receiver Justin Jefferson is dealing with a paternity lawsuit and allegedly pressured the kid’s mom into getting an abortion.
Jefferson and ex-girlfriend Andrea Galea filed counterclaims in opposition to each other in Essex County, New Jersey Household Court docket again in January, in response to the Day by day Mail, which obtained the paternity go well with.
Galea, a former swimmer at LSU, the place Jefferson additionally attended, have been romantically concerned in 2019 and reconnected in April 2023, in response to the go well with. That month, in response to Galea’s claims, Jefferson fathered her daughter, Stella, who was born in late December.
The Miami Legislation graduate is pushing for a paternity check in addition to monetary help and healthcare protection from Jefferson, moreover accusing the receiver of pressuring her to abort the kid mid-pregnancy.
In his personal grievance, Jefferson additionally pushed for a paternity check whereas demanding an injunction stopping the additional sharing of information concerning the little one.
“Defendant [Galea] has a considerable presence and following on numerous social media platforms and apparently has strategically positioned herself during the last a number of years to grow to be an ‘on-line influencer,’” Jefferson’s grievance states, per the Day by day Mail.
Jefferson accused Galea of “utilizing the [c]hild’s beginning, and her assertions of the Plaintiff’s alleged fathering of the kid as an obvious promotion on her numerous on-line platforms to self promote her on-line presence and following.” Jefferson additionally cited textual content messages between him and Galea inside the grievance.
“In quite a few transmittals to Plaintiff, Plaintiff’s household, Plaintiff’s pals, and different people, together with however not restricted to textual content messages, social media posts, blogs, and numerous web messaging platforms, Defendant in probably the most unlucky and temperate phrases has and continues to announce to all of the world that she is the pure mom of the kid, and that the Plaintiff is conclusively the daddy of the kid,” the submitting learn.
Galea’s submitting claims Jefferson refuses to each acknowledge and help the kid financially.
“Though he earns hundreds of thousands of {dollars} per yr, Defendant has not supplied a penny of monetary help for the Youngster,” reads Galea’s grievance. “Along with his bodily absence from his new child’s life, Defendant has unmistakably and reprehensibly evidenced a agency unwillingness to voluntarily help the Youngster in any capability, be it emotionally, financially, or in any other case.”
Galea’s submitting additionally accommodates textual content messages, allegedly between her and Jefferson, debating the way to deal with the being pregnant. Jefferson reportedly questioned whether or not Galea had taken a Plan B to terminate the being pregnant.
“The extra u wait the more durable the scenario will likely be that’s why I needed to get you the planB [because] I didn’t need to be on this scenario but it surely’s completely my fault I shouldn’t have accomplished it within the first place,” Jefferson wrote in a single textual content message acquired by Day by day Mail.
“Justin I took the plan b although it was simply too late for it to be efficient,” Galea responded. “Typically relying on the cycle except you are taking it inside like 2 hours it may be too late… and two individuals are at all times at fault on this. Personally I’ve by no means confronted a scenario like this…”
The go well with comes in the course of the offseason earlier than a pivotal contract yr for the Vikings star. Jefferson is enjoying on a $19.7 million group possibility to conclude his rookie contract, and he’s due for a probably market-setting extension inside the subsequent calendar yr.
