Conservative commentator Steven Crowder has issued a statement in response to a bombshell report by independent journalist Yashar Ali, which alleged a pattern of abusive behavior from Crowder towards his wife.

The couple is currently going through a divorce. Crowder had publicly commented on his “horrendous divorce” earlier in the week, expressing frustration that Texas law allowed his wife to unilaterally file for divorce.

Ali’s report, published Thursday, included a distressing video clip in which Crowder can be seen verbally berating his wife, who was eight months pregnant at the time.

The footage shows Crowder refusing to let her take the car to run errands and ends with him saying, “I will f*ck you up” to his wife.

In his statement, Crowder said, “Broken marriages are ugly. In them, people do ugly things, myself of course included, and I would never claim otherwise.”

He then referred to the leaked video as “misleadingly edited” and lacking context.

Crowder appeared to suggest that his wife or someone close to her leaked the video to Ali.

In response, Crowder announced that he had filed a motion to unseal all files related to the matter of legal record, including finances, relevant medical records, mental health history or evaluations, depositions, and any motions or sanctions from the courts of Texas.

He maintained that he would not leak private marital information to the press but would address all matters of irrefutable legal record in full context the following week if privacy agreements were not respected by all parties.

Crowder’s statement comes after his estranged wife’s family told Ali that she had spent years hiding Steven’s mentally and emotionally abusive behavior from her friends and family while trying to save their marriage.

The couple’s split has been described by Crowder as “horrendous” and his “deepest personal failure,” adding that it was no one else’s fault but his own and that he “picked wrong” when marrying his now-ex in 2012.

The video footage, taken from a Ring camera in June 2021, shows Crowder accusing his wife of refusing to “do wifely things” and telling her to “f–king watch it.”

At the time, his wife, Hilary, was eight months pregnant with twins.

She is now in the process of divorcing Crowder.

In his Twitter video and written statement, Crowder reiterated that broken marriages often involve ugly actions by those involved, including himself.

By filing the motion to unseal all related records, Crowder aims to present the truth in full context, should the privacy agreements not be respected by all involved parties.