Meghan King says ex Jim Edmonds is emotionally abusive in bodycam footage from dispute at his home
The Real Housewives of Orange County alum described Edmonds as emotionally abusive during a tense police encounter after allegedly barging into his residence earlier this year.
Meghan King, the former Real Housewives of Orange County star, told police that her ex-husband Jim Edmonds is emotionally abusive during a bodycam encounter following a dispute at his home earlier this year, footage obtained by Us Weekly shows.
On May 1, Kortnie Edmonds, Jim Edmonds’s wife, called police to report that King had trespassed at the couple’s residence while attempting to drop off her daughter’s dress for Aspen, who is 8, and twins Hart and Hayes, 7. The incident — described in accounts provided by Page Six and corroborated by bodycam footage — occurred at Edmonds’s home in Frontenac, Missouri, where the former MLB star and King share a complicated co-parenting arrangement. The dress drop-off had been coordinated with Edmonds and was said to be on behalf of their child’s needs. In the bodycam clip, Kortnie tells officers that King had appeared at the residence several times that day and was currently on scene creating a disturbance.
In the footage, an officer warns King that she could be detained if she does not stop. The exchange escalates as King asserts that Edmonds has used his name and money to push her around, while denying any wrongdoing on her part. The officer’s cadence becomes more insistent: I am going to place you in cuffs if you don’t stop, we are going to detain you. Prosecutors later characterized the encounter as a domestic dispute rather than a criminal trespass case, and Kortnie had sought charges for harassment.
King’s representatives have pushed back on characterizations of the incident as a confrontation with criminal overtones. They say King was simply attempting to drop off her daughter’s dress at Edmonds’s request and did not enter the home, leaving belongings on the porch after the door was slammed in her face. As the spokesperson put it to Us Weekly, Meghan briefly called to her daughter from the doorway, never stepped inside, and calmly left her belongings on the porch. She was unexpectedly blocked by multiple police vehicles on the way out, a scene the rep described as unnecessarily hostile. 
The incident did not result in charges. Frontenac’s municipal prosecutor declined to pursue charges against King, instead labeling the event as a domestic dispute. Kortnie had asked for harassment charges, but the prosecutor did not pursue them, according to the accounts accompanying the bodycam footage. King’s camp argues that the portrayal of the encounter misses the broader context of her ongoing family dynamic with Edmonds, which has included past disputes and protective orders in relation to their children.
The public statements from King’s camp emphasize a pattern of conflict surrounding Edmonds, including prior restraining orders that the rep says Meghan has had to seek against him in the past to protect her and their children from alleged abuse. The spokesperson also highlighted that King, who shares primary custody of her children, has faced scrutiny from the other side of the separation when resources and finances create an uneven dynamic. These assertions come as part of ongoing coverage of the dispute, with Page Six and Us Weekly reporting on the bodycam footage and related police calls.
Meghan King and Jim Edmonds were married from 2014 until their split in 2021, with public attention intensifying after a cheating scandal in 2019. The parties have continued to navigate co-parenting and related tensions since their divorce. No additional comments from Edmonds’s representatives were provided publicly as of this report, and Page Six had not received a comment from Edmonds’s team.
Final comment requests to Edmonds’s representatives went unanswered, and outlets that first reported the incident continue to present the material as part of a broader conversation about the couple’s relationship and the challenges of co-parenting in the public eye. As with similar celebrity-mounting disputes, timelines and details may evolve as both sides respond and any new information becomes available.
