Disturbing new video showing conservative commentator Steven Crowder warning his then-heavily pregnant wife to “f–king watch it” as he berates her for not following orders to do “wifely” duties was “misleadingly edited,” he said Friday.
The Ring footage, released Thursday by journalist Yashar Ali on his Substack, shows a fight in the run-up to what the YouTuber has called a “horrendous divorce.”
While being berated, Crowder’s wife, Hilary, repeatedly tries to reassure her husband that she loves him and is “committed.”
“I love you … but your abuse is sick,” she told him at one point — with him warning sternly: “Watch it. Watch it. F–king watch it.”
Crowder reportedly admitted to later inside the house threatening his wife: “I will f–k you up.”
The nearly 3 1/2-minute video, from June 2021, starts with Crowder smoking as he berates Hilary — who was 8-months pregnant with their twins — for not adhering to the “boundaries” he had set for her.
“You are not taking the car, because if you refuse to do wifely things then I will go pick up the groceries,” he tells his wife as she tries to leave their home.
His distressed wife quietly notes that they do not need groceries, and offers to pick up anything he needs while she is out.
Still, the influencer snaps: “I can’t go to the gym. I can’t go to my parents. I can’t call my friends. … Hilary, just think of how boxed in you’ve made me!”
As his wife breathes deeply and appears to fight back tears, the online personality tells her that “the only way out of it is discipline and respect.”
Again offering to get her husband’s grocery needs, Hilary says she needs “some space,” telling him: “I love you — I love you very much.”
“I don’t love you, that’s the big problem,” Crowder replies cruelly.
“And the fact is, when I go, ‘Look, I need you to do A, B, C and D,’ you should be disciplined about it, you go, ‘No!'” he complained — ordering her to “become worthy — wife worthy.”
“I love you. I’m committed to you,” his wife tells Crowder, who snaps: “Put on some gloves. Are you committed enough to do those things? … walk the dogs and put on some gloves.
“Are you committed enough to get the medication?” he asks, referring to what the report said was a treatment for the dogs that Hilary feared would be toxic for pregnant women.
Crowder admitted on audio to his “f–k you up” threat after the couple went inside the house, realizing he went too far, Ali said. Still, it was pivotal to his wife’s decision to finally file for divorce months later.
Before then, she gave birth to their twins in August 2021 — but Crowder “chose not to be with his wife during the birth of their twin children,” Hilary’s family told Ali.
“The truth is that Hilary spent years hiding Steven’s mentally and emotionally abusive behavior from her friends and family while she attempted to save their marriage,” the family alleged.
Crowder — perhaps best known for a viral meme of him sitting behind a desk with the sign “Change my mind” — addressed the footage on Twitter Friday afternoon.
“Broken marriages are ugly. In them, people do ugly things, myself of course included, and I would never claim otherwise,” the influencer said. “Due to recent misleadingly edited leaks to the tabloid press, without context and not subject to consequences of the court … well, if not privacy, the next best option is truth.”
“And so today, I have filed a motion to officially unseal all files as they relate to the matter of legal record. Finances, relevant medical records, including mental health history or evaluations, depositions, and any motions of sanctions from the courts of Texas,” he continued.
Crowder added that he will “NOT be leaking private marital information to the press, but if the privacy agreements are not respected by all parties, I will address that [as] a matter of irrefutable legal record, in full context, next week.”
Earlier this week, he told his “Louder With Crowder” audience about his “horrendous divorce,” hinting at enemies trying to shame and extort him over it.
“It’s been the most heartbreaking experience in my life,” he said, calling the divorce “my deepest personal failure.”
“I’ve always believed children need a mom and a dad and that divorce is horrible. And I still believe that children need a mom and a dad and that divorce is horrible.
“But in today’s legal system, my beliefs don’t matter,” he complained, repeatedly attacking Texas laws allowing his wife to leave without proving blame.
“It’s no one else’s fault but my own … I picked wrong,” he said of the now-ex he married in 2012.
