Singer Brian McKnight took to X (formerly Twitter) to claim victory in the legal battle against his ex-wife Julie McKnight stemming from her memoir “Mama Bear: Beautifully Blended.”
“According to the courts, trying to ruin my name and bring harm to my family in a book filled with lies equals $8.8 million dollars,” McKnight said in the clip.
Brian posted the clip that declares he had won the defamation suit, even though he filed a motion for a default judgement because of Julie’s failure to appear in court. According to TMZ.com, he must wait for the court to sign off before his win becomes official.
Brian’s son and namesake posted a video response to his dad’s video. Brian McKnight Jr. said that his father is a “hurt, a very emotionally unavailable and not intelligent person.”
Brian Jr. claims that his father’s post came on the birthday of his late brother Niko McKnight, who recently passed away after a battle with cancer.
“The gloves are off for me,” Brian Jr. said. “You don’t want to talk about the things from my childhood that I will take to my grave, the things that my brother took to his grave. We are dealing with someone who has unchecked trauma. The truth will come out.”