Tristan Thompson's alleged child mama Maralee Nichols is breaking her silence after DailyMail.com solely obtained courtroom paperwork earlier this month claiming they had been having a baby collectively.
The health mannequin - who has now given beginning to her little one - gave an announcement to each E! Information and UsWeekly on Friday stating she did 'every thing doable' to not draw consideration to herself all through the being pregnant, opposite to what Thompson has claimed.
Nichols says her solely 'purpose' now could be 'increase our son in a secure, wholesome, loving and personal atmosphere.'
The assertion comes a day after Thompson's set again of their ongoing paternity case, as a decide dismissed his try and have the case carried out in Houston, Texas, with the case now more likely to be heard in California.
Nichols additionally claims that Thompson - who was allegedly nonetheless in his relationship with Khloe Kardashian on the time of their liaisons - informed her he was 'single and co-parenting.'
'He informed me he was single and co-parenting,' Nichols claimed within the assertion. 'I might by no means have gotten concerned with Tristan if I assumed he was in a relationship.'
She additionally denied the previous Cleveland Cavaliers participant's claims that the pair had solely a 'informal intercourse' association.
Nichols claims Thompson informed her on the time that he was 'not having a sexual relationship with anybody else.'
She stated their relationship was 'not informal intercourse nor did we've any association. Tristan and I communicated day by day and talked on the cellphone. We'd see one another a number of instances a month.'
Thompson shares three-year-old daughter True with Kardashian, and son Prince, 5, with ex Jordan Craig.
Talking to 'defend her character' Nichols additionally denied stories that she has spoken to the media and claimed to set the report straight on 'inaccuracies' concerning the scenario.
Nichols informed the outlet: 'I've not at any level launched - nor have I directed anybody else to launch - any info relating to Tristan Thompson or any litigation involving him.'
She is referring to a earlier TMZ report, on how Thompson claimed within the courtroom case that he believes Nichols had violated a confidentiality order the decide orally granted earlier within the case.
Nichols added: 'I've by no means spoken to any media outlet, nor have I leaked any info to anybody at any time. I'm offering this assertion as a result of I really feel I need to defend my character.'
DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for Thompson relating to Nichols' feedback, who've up to now not responded.
Nichols claims she first met the sports activities star at a celebration held at his residence in Encino, California in 2020, and that he invited her to see him on Christmas, New Years and his birthday in March.
'I noticed Tristan in March 2021 round his birthday. He informed me he had needed to see me,' she claims.
'I agreed to satisfy him in Houston at a non-public social gathering on March 12. I by no means drove a Maserati to satisfy Tristan, as he claimed. He has by no means even been in my car.'
'I used an Uber or was pushed by pals that weekend. Houston was one among many nights we spent collectively. Quickly after his birthday weekend in Houston, Tristan invited me to go to him in Boston.'
She then claims that a couple of weeks after her journey to Boston, she found she was pregnant. Nichols claims that she knowledgeable Thompson concerning the being pregnant in North Carolina, after he had invited her to see him in the direction of the tip of April.
Clarifying the timeline of her being pregnant, Maralee additionally declare that she was induced on Nov. 29, 2021 as a result of she had a 'placenta abnormality.'
Nichols additionally added that she has not acquired any assist from Thompson.
'Tristan has not helped me financially with my being pregnant or with our child,' she claims.
'I've paid one hundred pc for my son's bills. I didn't ask Tristan for any cash, nor did I settle for any cash that was supplied to me.'
Ending her assertion, Maralee stated: 'As an alternative of specializing in any negativity, I'm selecting to embrace being a mom and doing the perfect I can for my son. I don't want any additional media consideration, nor do I desire a romantic relationship with Tristan. My purpose is to boost our son in a secure, wholesome, loving and personal atmosphere.'
Maralee additionally clarified in her assertion that has not been a private coach for over 4 years, and was not Thompson's coach. She refers to herself a 'health mannequin' and says she has lived in California since 2019.
The philandering Sacramento Kings heart had beforehand admitted to sleeping with Nichols, though the paternity of the little boy she gave beginning to on December 1 is but to be established.
However whereas Thompson stated that they had intercourse a number of instances at his thirtieth birthday celebrations in March - across the time he was additionally publicly courting Khloe - he is now conceding that the pair had been assembly up for months.
In courtroom paperwork obtained by DailyMail.com this week, Thompson stated he communicated with Nichols by way of Snapchat underneath the username 'blkjesus00,' solely discussing when and the place they might meet up for intercourse.
The difficulty of the place and when the infant was conceived is critical as a result of Nichols needs to sue for paternity in California whereas Thompson needs the go well with dealt with in Houston, Texas, the place Nichols' legal professionals say he'll possible pay much less little one assist.
Nichols alleges the pair met in California and had been hooking up on and off for 5 months earlier than she grew to become pregnant and Thompson supplied her $75,000 in hush cash to get an abortion.
'Opposite to Petitioner's many inferences in her declaration, we didn't have a critical ongoing relationship,' the famous person athlete coldly responds in a brand new submitting.
'We noticed one another sporadically between December 2020 and March 13, 2021 and didn't have sexual activity in California throughout that point.
'Petitioner informed me that she had been concerned with different athletes and understood the constraints of our relationship; to-wit, that we'd see one another on a sporadic foundation for consensual informal intercourse solely.
'From December 2020 via March 2021, we noticed different on such a foundation. We by no means had any phone calls, emails, nor did we alternate textual content messages. We solely communicated by way of the Snapchat software.'
Thompson acknowledges within the new papers that he met Nichols at 'somebody's home' in Late November or early December 2020.
He additionally concedes that she got here to his LA residence on 'perhaps two events' however insists he can not recall ever having intercourse along with her in California.
'I solely recall that Petitioner and I had sexual relations in March of 2021 and at no different time in 2021,' he writes within the submitting, lodged in LA County superior Court docket.
'Petitioner consistently used the time period 'hook up' to explain our relationship which was the fact. I'm sure that if the kid is deemed to be my little one that the one date of conception was March 13, 2021, as a result of it was my birthday.'
Dismissing any suggestion of a real reference to Nichols, he goes on: 'Though Petitioner has set forth just about each date that she contends we had sexual relations, the one date that she can not bear in mind having intercourse is on March 13, 2021, my birthday, in Houston, which is the one date that conception may have taken place resulting in a supply on December 1, 2021.
'As I acknowledged, our relationship was primarily based on intercourse. We'd not have seen one another in Houston if we weren't going to have intercourse.
'We didn't have any dates within the conventional sense at any time; there have been no eating at eating places, going to films, touring or some other indicia of a normalized relationship. There was solely Snapchats of 'the place' and 'what time' we might hook up and what resorts can be used.'
'We solely communicated by way of the Snapchat software,' he states, 'My username on Snapchat has at all times been 'blkjesus00.'
Thompson stated they used Snapchat to guard their privateness due to the app's delete perform.
'After a snapchat message, the message is routinely deleted. If both of us would do one thing to attempt to save the message, the opposite social gathering can be notified. I used to be by no means notified that Petitioner saved a message from me. Petitioner by no means confirmed that I used to be notified of her retaining messages,' he stated.
He claimed that Nichols may have 'simply create a fabricated dialog with an individual apart from Thompson (together with herself) through the use of two totally different units and through the use of the contact identify 'TT'.
'There is no such thing as a approach to authenticate what username is sending the messages from the photographs of the Snapchat messages offered by Nichols from 'TT".
Thompson insisted Nichols get an abortion and supplied her $75,000 in hush cash after she grew to become pregnant along with his little one whereas he was nonetheless courting Kardashian, in line with courtroom filings.
Nichols, a Houston native, has since moved to Los Angeles and is now suing the athlete for little one assist in addition to for reimbursement of medical bills and pregnancy-related prices.
She has additionally filed to submit textual content messages between her and Thompson as proof for her paternity lawsuit which allegedly present that he needed her to terminate the being pregnant, Web page Six reported.
Attorneys for Nichols declare that the communications present Thompson 'addressing the events' relationship' and 'insisting that she get an abortion and threatening that she is going to get subsequent to nothing with lesser assist necessities in Texas.'