Pam Stepnick, the mother of internet personalities Logan and Jake Paul, has alleged that her ex-husband Greg Paul subjected her to emotional abuse and parental alienation in her newly released memoir, F*** the Pauls: Written by Their Mother.
Stepnick, 62, a nurse, and Greg Paul, 62, a realtor and commercial roofer, divorced around 2004 when their sons were under 10. In the book, Stepnick claims that after filing for divorce, she was 'bullied into shared parenting,' which she says gave Greg the opportunity to alienate the children from her and emotionally control them.
She wrote that Greg told their sons she was a 'gold digger' and a 'liar,' and accused her of having an affair. 'Alienating your children from their mother is another form of abuse,' Stepnick wrote, urging parents not to use children as pawns in divorce.
The memoir also describes the breakdown of their marriage, which Stepnick attributes partly to a failed business venture involving her family. She admitted marrying 'too young and for the wrong reasons,' and reflected that staying in the marriage for the children would have traumatised them more than leaving.
In the reality show Paul American, Logan Paul described his father as 'physical' but stopped short of calling it abuse, while Jake used the term 'abusive.' Greg Paul defended his parenting, distinguishing between yelling in rage and yelling with a firm tone.
