‘He was uncontrollable’: Mike Perry’s ex-wife Danielle Nickerson reveals alleged abuse by UFC fighter

Danielle Nickerson, ex-wife of Mike Perry, has spoken out about alleged abuse she suffered by the hands of the UFC fighter.

In an interview with MMA Junkie the 28-year-old, who divorced Perry in July, mentioned she had been bodily abused by him “a handful of occasions” – which he denies – and at one level feared for her life when he turned notably violent.

The second in query allegedly occurred when Perry, whom she married in September final yr, flew right into a drunken rage on February 10, which Nickerson described because the “craziest, worst evening of my life.”

Perry entered remedy for alcohol abuse in July, and Nickerson mentioned “alcohol at all times made issues actually, actually unhealthy.”

The tennis participant mentioned she would “very frivolously tip-toe” round Perry when he had been ingesting and used to joke that she needed to be cautious to not “breathe mistaken.”

She mentioned Perry turned offended throughout a row with an intoxicated lady at a nightclub on February 10, wherein he “mentioned some actually vulgar issues” to her, and when the girl poured a drink over his head it “sky rocketed him into one other dimension of anger.”

Nickerson mentioned she and Perry had been kicked out of the membership by a bouncer after he retaliated by hitting the girl.

She then mentioned she had a good friend take her residence after Perry pressured her to get out of their automobile on the way in which. As soon as the good friend had escorted her residence and left, she mentioned Perry attacked her.

“He ran straight at me like a soccer participant to sort out me, sprinted throughout the home,” she mentioned.

Nickerson managed to place a plugged-in therapeutic massage chair between them, however “he actually grabbed the chair and ripped it out of the wall and threw it throughout the room like Hulk-strength scary.”

At that time, Nickerson mentioned she curled up within the fetal place and he attacked.

“He had his knee on my stomach and simply ground-and-pounded me till he received drained. I did an honest job of overlaying my face. 

“I nonetheless had hematomas on the again of my head. My total proper facet from my total arm, my legs, my ribs, every part was coated in bruises the subsequent few days. 

“He simply received all of his anger out on me, and on the final punch I clearly – I feel that’s why he stopped, is we heard my rib crack. 

“He knew and sat again, and I feel he was simply drained – uninterested in hitting me a lot.”

“It was like a film,” Nickerson added. “You’re like, this isn’t my life. What is going on proper now? I [thought] if I don’t depart and run out of this home, I’ll die.”

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Nickerson then mentioned she fled to a neighbor’s home, the place she was picked up by Perry’s mom, Sabra Younger.

After Perry adopted them, Younger referred to as the police afraid for her personal and Nickerson’s security.

“My son is out within the driveway, and he’s violent proper now, and I’m scared for my life, and I don’t know what he’s going to do,” Younger advised the dispatch within the audio recording of her 911 name. “He’s revving his engine proper now. His spouse is inside my home, and I’m afraid he’s going to harm her.”

Perry left earlier than police arrived, nonetheless, so no incident report was filed.

Whereas Nickerson mentioned that evening was the worst of the abuse she acquired and that nothing else got here “ever even remotely shut,” she additionally alleged that in separate incidents Perry left a hematoma on her brow and gave her a bruised eye and swollen lip after hitting her.

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It’s mentioned Nickerson took pictures of herself that precisely depict these accidents, however she didn’t give permission for them to be printed as a result of she was afraid of being “publicly shamed.”

Nickerson made the choice to file for divorce and a protecting order on March four.

The evening earlier than, she had confronted Perry at Rachel’s Strip Membership in Orlando, Florida and the pair argued. 

At that time, she determined their marriage was “clearly unfixable” and that she wished to keep away from a repeat of what occurred in February: “I can’t die for him to dwell.”

In audio obtained from the native police division’s non-emergency line, Nickerson mentioned she was in a “potential home violence state of affairs” and requested for an escort whereas she retrieved issues from her home.

A police incident report confirmed 4 officers arrived. The report didn’t present every other particulars, however Nickerson mentioned Perry needed to be calmed down after threatening the officers.

The protecting order Nickerson filed for the subsequent day was denied by a decide on the grounds that “normal relationship issues and uncivil habits aren’t home violence,” however Nickerson mentioned she withheld some particulars of the alleged abuse as a result of she didn’t need to “harm him” and was involved he would possibly commit suicide, which he allegedly talked about after his defeat to Geoff Neal final December.

Nickerson pinpointed the Neal struggle – wherein he was knocked out through a head-kick and a few follow-up punches – as when their relationship modified.

“He was simply uncontrollable,” Nickerson mentioned. “There was no bringing him down. There was no speaking to him. There was no reasoning with him. All of it actually appeared like a horrible downward spiral when he misplaced the struggle to Geoff Neal.”

Nickerson mentioned Perry suffered reminiscence loss after that struggle and expressed concern that the top trauma suffered throughout his MMA profession might have precipitated his anger points.

On the defeat to Neal, she added “it was like a lightweight change modified” in him.

Regardless of her reservations in offering particulars of the alleged abuse when submitting for the protecting order, Nickerson mentioned her resolution to come back ahead now with the allegations “is nothing to harm him.”

Quite, she mentioned she hopes the allegations will assist victims of home violence and encourage the UFC to look into the top trauma suffered by fighters.

Previous to Nickerson coming ahead with the allegations, Perry preemptively denied bodily abusing her in an announcement on Twitter, wherein he mentioned he “didn’t put my arms on my ex at any level.”

The 29-year-old is now anticipating his first youngster together with his new girlfriend, Latory Gonzalez.

‘Platinum,’ who received his final struggle towards Mickey Gall in June, is anticipated to face Robbie Lawler in November.