When OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney stabbed her boyfriend to death last April, it wasn’t the first time she’d attacked him, according to text-message conversations on Christian “Toby” Obumseli’s iCloud account.
According to Obumseli’s messages, Clenney stabbed him in the leg so badly while they still lived in Texas that he struggled to walk, according to the Miami Herald, which obtained them in a records request. The following day, he said she hit him in the head so hard he believe he had a concussion.
In January, Obumseli said he had two cuts to the cheek and chin, documented in photos. Those wounds sent him to the hospital for stitches.
“Is love going to kill me?” Obumseli wrote to Clenney weeks before his death. “February was the worst month I had so far. I got cheated on. I got called that word again. I got slapped in my stitches that has re-opened multiple times and it’s not healing fast enough.”
Clenney, 26, was arrested in Hawaii this summer and charged with second degree murder in Obumseli’s death. Prosecutors said at the time of her arrest that she was the abuser in the couple’s on-again, off-again relationship, while defense attorneys claim that Obumseli was the abuser and that she stabbed him in self-defense.
Clenney’s attorneys, Frank Prieto and Sabrinia Puglisi, called the evidence released by prosecutors “one-sided.”
“It’s missing context,” they said in a statement. “The most sensational pieces of evidence are being cherry picked by reporters, without proper context, to feed the public’s curiosity with this case. What is clear to us is that the evidence shows the extreme emotions and dysfunction of a relationship off the rails.”
Prosecutors early this month released secret recordings Obumseli made of Clenney’s outbursts toward him.
In the documents the Herald received, Clenney apologized for hitting Obumseli in the face and the back of his head with her phone, adding “You just P**me tf off, but still love you.”
Later she apologized for not coming to the hospital while he got stitches.
“I feel extreme regret, sadness, and humiliation and I am so, so sorry for hurting you,” she wrote.
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[Featured image: Courtney Clenney and Christian Obumseli/Instagram]