As reported by David Bixenspan of Babyface v. Heel, Matt Riddle and his lawyer Daniel J. Rose had requested to get a restraining order against Candy Cartwright. Cartwright had accused Riddle of sexually assaulting her years ago. Riddle and Rose had filed a complaint, but the two later requested a voluntary dismissal, just over 36 hours before a hearing was set to begin.
According to court records in Riddle’s petition (of which Riddle is regarded as the “Petitioner”), Riddle accused Cartwright of several things including “committed stalking,” “previously threatened, harassed, stalked, cyberstalked, or physically abused the Petitioner,” “threatened to harm Petitioner or family members or individuals closely associated with Petitioner” and more.
Cartwright’s lawyer Allison Lovelady had tried to dismiss the petition, refuting many of the claims that Riddle made against Cartwright which the aforementioned hearing was for the motion to dismiss it.
Among the other things that Riddle and his lawyer had claimed was Cartwright tweeting out the phone number of Lisa Riddle, Matt’s wife, and their home address, which Lovelady denied. Lovelady says the tweet in question “is publicly available and demonstrates that Respondent [Cartwright] redacted Petitioner’s wife’s phone number” and “also demonstrates that Respondent never publicized Petitioner’s address.”
The article stated that “Lovelady also attached a sworn declaration from her associate, James Slater, attesting to the authenticity of various things that [Cartwright] actually tweeted, including the redacted screenshot of the texts from Lisa Riddle.”
Months ago, Cartwright accused Riddle of sexually assaulting her years ago. Cartwright took to Twitter during the #SpeakOut movement to tell her story:
Back in May of 2018 I was riding with Matt Riddle and a few other wrestlers. During the van ride, when the 3 other wrestlers had fallen asleep, Matt asked me to ‘hop on his dick.’ When I refused (although we had previously been together I was incredibly uncomfortable in that setting ) When I said no, he grabbed me by my throat, choked me and said “what if I just made you?” I ended up giving him oral sex (praying someone wouldn’t wake up) to get out of having intercourse with him. It was incredibly humiliating. It is never ok to put your hands on a woman, it’s also not ok to not listen when she says no.”
Riddle has had much to say about the accusations over the past months, all while denying any wrong doing. He admitted to cheating on his wife Lisa with Cartwright and also put out statements through his attorney as well as a video he posted on his social media refuting the allegations.
There will be much speculation as to why Riddle would withdraw his complaint, ranging from theories of he just wants this to be over to maybe he didn’t want things to come out in court filing. Only Riddle will know the answers.
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