DeAnna Pappas Arrested After Argument with Ex-Husband Stephen Stagliano

DeAnna Pappas was arrested after an argument with her ex-husband, Stephen Stagliano.

The Bachelorette alum and her former husband announced they were separating after 11 years of marriage in January 2023. Their divorce was finalized in June 2024, per In Touch, and they share two children: daughter Allison, 11, and son Austin, 9.

According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, on March 7, Lynn Stagliano, who is identified as Stephen’s mother, filed a declaration in the divorce stating that on Feb. 26, she went to pick up the former couple’s son Austin for school and “very clearly smelled alcohol on DeAnna’s breath.”

In Pappas’ response — in which she filed a restraining order against Stephen ordering him to stay 100 yards away from her — Pappas claimed that when Stephen picked up their daughter later that evening, “Stephen told me that I needed to walk closer to him because he wanted to smell my breath to make sure that I was not drunk.”

Pappas said she ignored his comment and walked back into the garage. She then heard a noise and found Stagliano allegedly following her into her garage. Their daughter was allegedly still inside his vehicle with the engine running.

“I tried to shut my garage door. Stephen pushed my garage door upward so that it would not close. I shouted at Stephen to get out of my garage. Stephen refused to leave,” Pappas alleged.

“I attempted to shut the garage door again. Stephen used his hand and pushed the garage door upward again so that it would not close,” she continued.

Pappas alleged that afterward, while Stagliano said he was calling the cops, he continued to push up her garage door making her fear for her safety.

After calling a friend to stay on the phone with her, Pappas said she saw Stagliano stealing things from her garage, prompting her to walk outside.

“Stephen then took his hands, grabbing me, and then forcefully shoved me. He pushed me back again,” Pappas claims.

She alleges that when officers arrived at the home after midnight, she was told that Stagliano accused her of being drunk and was pressing charges against her for domestic violence, claiming she “was the aggressor who assaulted him.”

Pappas says she voluntarily submitted to drug and alcohol testing after being bailed out of jail on Feb. 27 and tested negative. PEOPLE reached out to Pappas and Stagliano’s attorneys for comment.

“The basis of Respondent’s request is based on his fabrication that I am an alcoholic. This is wholly false and fabricated as a way for the Respondent to gain leverage in his attempt to alienate the children from me,” she further claimed in an opposition to an ex parte application filed by Stagliano.

Per a copy of their divorce agreement included with the new documents, Pappas and Stagliano have agreed to share joint custody of their two kids.

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In addition to agreeing to make “no negative comments” about one another around their children, they also have a provision to not “drink alcohol in excess of the legal limit during their custody periods.”