Bethenny Frankel began crying just minutes into her custody hearing with ex-husband Jason Hoppy as she revealed how he would taunt her on FaceTime.
Both Frankel and Hoppy were back at Manhattan's Supreme Court on Monday for what has become an ugly battle over their eight-year-old daughter Bryn.
Frankel was accompanied by boyfriend Paul Bernon, who has been by Frankel's side for the court hearings.
The Real Housewives of New York Star is fighting for sole custody and sole decision making of their daughter. Hoppy wants the couple to continue sharing joint custody.
Bethenny Frankel and her ex-husband Jason Hoppy were back in court for their ongoing - and ugly - custody hearing in Manhattan on Monday morning
Frankel's attorney Ronnie Schindel played a 2015 FaceTime call in which she said Hoppy refused to let her speak to Bryn, despite the fact that it was Mother Day's weekend and their daughter's birthday weekend.
'The circumstances were I was trying to FaceTime Bryn, and as I have experienced every day, Jason was using it as a tool to harass me and assault me,' Frankel told the court, according to Radar.
In the FaceTime, Frankel can be heard asking Hoppy if she can 'talk to Bryn for a sec'.
'No, keep recording me, keep recording me, you lost your privilege when you began recording me,' Hoppy responds.
Frankel said Hoppy would use the FaceTime calls to 'taunt' and 'abuse' her.
'Just basic torture and taunting every day,' she continue, revealing he would often appear 'shirtless' or 'without clothes', which made her feel uncomfortable.
Frankel said Hoppy's behavior had a 'dramatic affect' on her relationship with Bryn as she dealt with his endless and daily emotional abuse.
Hoppy came to court on Monday dressed in a black suit, which he paired with a navy blue tie
Frankel had the support of boyfriend Paul Benson, who has stood by her side throughout the trial this month
It was only when Hoppy was arrested for harassing her in January 2017 that she said she realized just how much his behavior was affecting her emotional state.
'Until something stops, you don't realize how traumatic and damaging it is,' she said while crying on the stand.
'When that person is arrested, you're sleeping better, you're not stressed. You're physically more psychologically healthy. You're not a wreck all the time.'
'It's like you can have a slightly normal life and you're more connected with Bryn because you're not in a panic about what will happen with the emails.'
Frankel told the court that she wanted 'more physical time' with her daughter and said she was asking for 'ultimate-decision making' so that she wouldn't have to email with Hoppy, which she has claimed is his main outlet of abuse, about everything.
The couple sat together as the hearing broke for lunch and spoke to Frankel's legal team
The pair looked deep in conversation following Frankel's emotional morning of testimony
'Decision making has been impossible and tedious and not a collaborative or rational or reasonable process,' she said. 'And the decisions, the minor decisions, go on with email and bogged down in anger, and we can't get anything minor done.'
'And now Bryn is getting to the age, that as she gets older there is the physical, and medical. We have to be rational and reasonable and have good judgement. Jason will make decisions about how he would hurt me. If I say black, he will say white.'
Emotions were similarly high during Frankel's last hearing as she sobbed on the witness stand and described how Hoppy turned her life into a 'torture chamber' and tormented her for six-and-a-half years after she asked for a divorce.
Frankel described in detail the 'thousands' of 'abusive' text messages, emails, and phone calls Hoppy has bombarded her with since they split in 2012.
The reality star said that she was once so scared of Hoppy that she put a padlock on her bedroom door when he refused to leave their apartment after she asked for a divorce.
Frankel had spent the morning recounting to the court about how Hoppy would 'abuse' her with taunting shirtless FaceTime calls
Frankel said that Hoppy had dramatically affected her relationship with their daughter Bryn
'I was helpless, I had no way out. I knew what he was doing was illegal. I knew I was being abused,' the tearful Real Housewives of New York City star said at the start of her testimony.
'I pleaded, begged, emailed, to please stop harassing and abusing me.'
Frankel said that Hoppy warned her after she asked for a divorce that 'this is war'.
'If you leave me you are dead to me,' Frankel said Hoppy told her. 'I want nothing to do with you. I'm going to destroy you. I'm going to ruin your life.'
Frankel said she had told Hoppy that she wanted to co-parent harmoniously, and even one day be friends who could share holiday dinners or vacations together. But she claims he only reiterated that he wanted revenge.
'I'm going to destroy your life,' Frankel said he told her. 'I'm going to have you and your publicist on the floor crying.'
Frankel arrived in court on Monday bundled up for the early morning March chill in a black peacoat, black pants, and a black top
The only flash of color from her outfit came from a white collar peeking underneath the black top, as well as her red flats
Frankel said life soon became a 'torture chamber' and 'outright mayhem' at the Tribeca apartment that she had bought for them.
She claimed that Hoppy would lay in their marital bed and just stare at her face until she had to call friends and beg them to help her get him out of the bed.
Describing the state he left the home in, Frankel described 'rotting food in the refrigerator and 'dishes piled to the top' of the sink.
'He would go to the bathroom in the toilets and wouldn't flush them. He would whistle and sing and slam doors,' she continued. 'He did everything he completely and possibly could to torture me.'
Frankel also recalled how her ex-husband and his father would walk around the house in their underwear and that he would often invite friends to stay for days on end.
Frankel is fighting Hoppy not only for sole custody of the couple's eight-year-old daughter Bryn, but also for sole decision making
Hoppy wants the couple to continue sharing joint custody of their eight-year-old daughter
'I begged, pleaded, asked Jason to please leave. He refused,' she said.
Frankel said Hoppy would lock her dog Cookie into the storage room for hours and leave negative press clippings about her around the house where she could find them.
When she tried to throw them away, Frankel said Hoppy would dig them out of the trash and put them back.
Among the more disturbing anecdotes Frankel gave was one in which she described Hoppy drawing a picture of her beloved dog Cookie and leaving it in Bryn's lunchbox for her to find just a day after the pup died. It was signed 'Dad'.
Eventually, Frankel moved out. The abuse, she said, then became worse 'but different' via a steady stream of emails and text messages.
Frankel arrived at Manhattan's Supreme Court on Monday morning dressed almost entirely in black as she prepared to take the stand once again
Frankel said she would 'shudder' every time she saw an email from Hoppy, and that the 'vast majority' of the messages were 'abusive'.
'It was like a visceral reaction every time I looked at my phone and saw his name,' she said.
'I'm trying to be a mom, run a business, keep myself together. It scared me, made me feel helpless, hopeless, and alone.'
In 2014, two years after she asked for a divorce, Frankel agreed to a custody agreement with Hoppy that allowed him to have two phone calls per day with Bryn.
Hoppy, she said, used the mandated phone calls as a new opportunity to harass her and try to turn their daughter against her.
'Phone calls were Jason's new tool in his arsenal to abuse me,' Frankel said.
'The majority of phone calls and FaceTimes were Jason staring into the phone, sometimes in his underwear. He'd say "You lost.'''
'It was way worse than the emails and texts,' Frankel continued. 'Having a child in the car with me, or him, while Jason is abusing me, is bad for Bryn.'
Frankel and Hopper married in March 2010, two months before their child was born. They are pictured here in 2012 just months before they split
Hoppy's defense team tried to stop recordings of the phone calls from being played in the courtroom, but their request was denied by the judge.
Although Bryn now has a phone of her own, Frankel said she has a hard time getting hold of her daughter when Bryn is with Hoppy.
But Frankel said she will sometimes receive up to 10 emails over the span of a weekend from Hoppy's assistant demanding that she facilitate a call between him and Bryn when their daughter is staying with her.
'It's a new pocket, it's a new way for Jason to poke at me, send excessive emails at me,' she said. 'It makes me feel like this is endless, helpless, sad, nervous, stressed.'
Frankel said Hoppy told her he would 'stop at nothing' to ruin her life and was threatening and verbally assaulting as well, whether they were at one of Bryn's doctor appointments or even at the school yard.
'If I would be giving her a big hug, he'd say I was desperate and pathetic. He's say I looked ugly and old. He'd laugh and whistle,' she said.
Frankel also described the incident in which Hoppy was arrested for harassment at her daughter's school in 2017.
The couple were often filmed enjoying vacations and parenting Bryn during their two seasons of Bethenny Ever After (pictured in 2012)
The reality star was attending Bryn's recital with her late ex-boyfriend Dennis Shields when Hoppy appeared unannounced.
'I see how you want to do this. You can get 10 lawyers and you can't stop me. You've been warned. There's nothing you can do to stop me,' Frankel recalled him saying.
Frankel said Hoppy then turned to Shields and called her 'pure evil'.
'We had settled custody, finances. It was supposed to be time to co-parent,' she said. 'He ramped it up and took it to another level.'
Frankel couldn't hold back tears as she said it reached a 'fever pitch'.
'I was afraid for my safety. My daughter was steps away and he was threatening me in front of people at the school. I didn't know what he was capable of,' she continued.
Frankel went to the police and Hoppy was arrested. An order of protection was issued that had since expired, and Frankel said she now makes minimal face to face contact with her ex-husband.
'I'm not comfortable in Jason's presence,' she said. 'It's very contentious. We're not in a good place, even in the courtroom.'
Hoppy and Frankel met while she was filming the second series of the show. They married in 2010 while she was pregnant with Bryn. In 2012, Frankel told Hoppy that their marriage was over.
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Main photo article Bethenny Frankel began crying just minutes into her custody hearing with ex-husband Jason Hoppy as she revealed how he would taunt her on FaceTime.
Both Frankel and Hoppy were back at Manhattan’s Supreme Court on Monday for what has become an ugly battle over their eight-year-old daughter ...
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