In 2013, Mary Lee Harvey spoke from her jail cell after being arrested and charged with contempt of court for leaking sealed documents to the media about an incident in which Steve Harvey was accused of beating their son. "I didn't violate any court orders," she told Fox News at the time. "This is about 'You're not supposed to be talking to anybody about your divorce.' That's what they're saying. I'm like, this is America." She went on to accuse Steve of turning their then-teenage son against her after he was awarded primary custody of Wynton Harvey. "Am I angry? Yes," she declared. "I missed six years of my son's life and I can't get those years back."
Their messy 2005 split spiraled all the way into May 2017, when Mary Lee sued Steve for $60 million. She accused him of "child endangerment, torture, conspiracy against rights, kidnapping, murder, breach of contract and intentional infliction of emotional distress," per TMZ. The former talk show host's legal team shut down the allegations by claiming, "the Complaint is meritless, frivolous and the allegations are completely false. We will vigorously defend/counterclaim against the Complaint." It's possible that — to borrow the theme of Steve's book — Mary Lee was with him long enough to learn how to Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man.
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