The theatrics that Devar Hurd—the man convicted of stalking Ashanti in 2009—displayed in a New York City courtroom Wednesday are one for the history books, the New York Daily News reports.
Hurd served a two-year bid for stalking Ashanti, but after his release, Ashanti claims, he went back to his stalker ways. Hurd is now back in court because he's being accused of tweeting Ashanti—even though a restraining order ordered him not to have any contact with her. He also followed her sister, Kenashia Douglas, on Twitter.
And get this: Hurd is defending himself in court, and he claims that all of his communications with Ashanti are warranted and wanted because he and the R&B singer were in a relationship. He says that he and Ashanti are now estranged because she thinks he was cheating on her.
"She thought I was two-timing her, that I wasn't being loyal and trustworthy as I claimed to be to her,” Hurd said in his opening statement in Manhattan Supreme Court. According to the Daily News, Hurd was practically screaming while delivering his opening statement.
"The [prosecutors] want to attack your intelligence today—they want to manipulate you," Hurd said.
Meanwhile, Ashanti claims that she's never been in any kind of relationship with this man. What an ordeal; Ashanti must be going through it. The prosecutor argued that Ashanti needs to hire extra security when she's in New York because she's scared of Hurd.
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Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele is a staff writer at The Root and the founder and executive producer of Lectures to Beats, a Web series that features video interviews with scarily insightful people. Follow Lectures to Beats on Facebook and Twitter.
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