90 Day Fiance alum Karine Martins has retracted the shocking domestic-violence allegations she made in a restraining order application she filed last year against her husband Paul Staehle, whom she has since reconciled with, and now claims they were false.
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Although Karine's protective order included an array of jaw-dropping claims -- including that Paul had forcefully raped her, hurt her, monitored her phone, and prevented her doctor from prescribing birth control to her -- the pair dismissed their protective orders against each other in September 2020 after appearing to reconcile.
"Hello everybody. I'm here to apologize about the accusations about Paul, [they are] false," Karine, whose first language is Portuguese, said in a video posted to her Instagram Stories on Saturday, according to In Touch Weekly.
"The translator who tried [to] help me was wrong and did not understand me cause my English is no good. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry, Paul."
Many 90 Day Fiance fans assumed Karine from Tonantins, Brazil, and Paul from Louisville, Kentucky, worked things out for the sake of their children.
Karine and Paul are parents of a son Pierre, who was born in Brazil in March 2019, and a infant son Ethan, whom the couple just welcomed into the world on February 5, 2021.
Paul reportedly responded to his wife's apology with his own statement on Instagram Stories earlier this week.
"Thank you @staehlekarine for being an amazing wife to me and mother to our [two] amazing children. I am truly sorry I am far from perfect. I do not blame you for past events. I blame myself," Paul said, according to the magazine.
"I hope and pray [folded-hands emoji] our family will continue to thrive and heal day by day. I will dedicate myself every day to understand you better and not be so annoying and frustrating."
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Paul also reportedly added stickers to his post that read, "Family" and "Love."
RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOWBoth spouses, who have been living in Brazil together for at least five months and claimed in November 2020 they're in a better place financially, also recently posted the same two cute family photos on Instagram. Paul posted them on March 6 and Karine followed suit on March 11.
Paul and Karine first appeared on Seasons 1 and 2 of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days, followed by Season 1 of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way and Season 5 of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?.
When Paul and Karine had their explosive fight in July of last year, Paul said he wanted to file for full custody of Pierre after Karine allegedly cheated on him and violated a Child Protective Services case against her.
Paul also claimed Karine had gone "missing" with Pierre while he was in the hospital being treated for a STD. He seemed to blame the alleged STD on Karine for allegedly being unfaithful after she arrived in Kentucky.
Paul and Karine's fight resulted in them both filing restraining orders against each other.
"I previously found glass in my food," Paul alleged in court documents obtained by Us Weekly. "I found similar glass shards from an item she broke."
Paul also alleged that Karine's friends were calling him with death threats and Karine had allowed Pierre to "run in the street [and] get into the chemical cabinets."
"I fear for my wife's safety and mental well-being. I fear for my son's safety," Paul concluded.
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Karine said she never went "missing" but needed to be "rescued from an environment" that was no longer healthy for her and her child. She added on Instagram at the time, "Relationships are hard and sometimes it just can't be fixed anymore."
In the emergency protection order application Paul had shared on social media, Karine claimed Paul "forcefully rapes me" and "hold[s] my Green Card and all my documents."
"On multiples occasions in the past 3 weeks the respondent pushed me, grab my breast squ[ee]zing and twisting, hurting me, pushing me to the floor, covering my mouth. He force his penis into my mouth and forcefully rapes me. If I refuse he throws things, he yells, or he threat[ens] to call police," Karine wrote in the handwritten two-page application.
Among other accusations, Karine wrote that Paul threatened to take Pierre away if she tried to leave and forced her to drink alcohol while pregnant with Baby No. 2 so she would calm down.
Karine continued, with the help of a language translator, "He is constantly on social media making videos of me against my will saying I am crazy, saying I have mental illness. Recently he called [Child Protective Services] and told [them] I was always drunk, aggressive, and abusive to him."
"He post on social media [that] I have [cheated with] several [men] even knowing that he [has] cameras around the house and I can't leave. I have no access to money for my son or myself."
According to her application, Karine said she was "terrified" Paul and his mother Mary might hurt her or their son, regardless of whether she flew back to Brazil with Pierre.
Paul took to his Instagram Stories on August 10, 2020 to shoot down the claims Karine had made in her protective order filing.
"It truley [sic] breaks my heart it has come to this. I have bent over backwards. I found work. Got a new home. A new car. Let her buy anything she wanted. I did the cooking, cleaning, laundry and took care of Pierre," Paul wrote in his Instagram Stories.
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"I have never in my life physically or sexually assaulted anyone."
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"Her motion against me with false allegations is for a 3 year restraining order against me and both my children. Alimony and child support. But I can not see her or my children at all," Paul shared.
Paul subsequently took a break from social media in August 2020 but returned after three weeks of silence to reveal he was in Brazil cleaning and organizing their home while Karine was in Indiana.
"My life revolved around them. I have not seen my son since July.... I will not see my sons for a very long time," Paul said.
"So I am keeping busy and constructive. Karine is not in Brazil. I knew that when I traveled here. Now my mother is having a mental breakdown because she is also forbidden to see Pierre. I have lost my sons."
Paul confirmed Karine was pregnant with another boy at the time because he wrote "sons" multiple times and also noted, "I have to accept the fact I will probably never see my wife and son again. Or see the birth or ever see my unborn child."
90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s fifth season ended with Paul and Karine agreeing to take a trip to Brazil together so Karine could visit her family.
Karine said her relationship with Paul was under a lot of pressure in the United States and so a trip to Brazil would be good for their relationship.
Karine noted at the time she would "think" about returning to America after spending some time in Brazil, but Paul feared Karine would never want to come back to the United States with him.
The pair did not participate in the Season 5 Tell-All special for 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s fifth season that aired in October 2020 because the event was filmed before Karine and Paul apparently buried the hatchet and dropped their protective orders against each other.
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