Zac Brown's ex-wife is firing back at the restraining order he filed against her.
In a new statement posted to her Instagram account, Kelly Yazdi maintains that against Brown's best efforts, she will not be silenced from speaking out about their divorce.
"No one -- not even Zac Brown with all of his money, power, celebrity, and lawyers -- may silence my right to freely express myself through art or, although I have to date declined to do so publicly, to speak about the circumstances of our pending divorce."
The new statement comes after Brown revealed to People that he would be filing a restraining order to keep "personal and business affairs" private, as well as ensuring the protection of his family from public scrutiny and online harassment.
"After much deliberation, I took the steps necessary to enforce an agreement between us to maintain personal and business affairs in confidence and to protect my family from online harassment and speculation," Brown said in a statement. "My only hope is for us to keep private matters private and to move forward with the mutual respect we had agreed to show one another when we parted ways."
The court filing came after Brown interpreted two poems that Yazdi posted on her social media as slanderous, containing false information about him and his business practices. One seemingly accused him of "narcissistic abuse," including claims of gaslighting, stonewalling, and threats.
"I intend to respond swiftly and robustly to his meritless complaint that publication of two poems on my personal social media account divulged any 'confidential information' about his business, much less authorizes a court to enjoin me from speaking about matters in my personal life that have nothing to do with my brief former work for the Zac Brown Collective, Inc."
The video was posted on May 19, just one day after the restraining order was officially granted. It goes on to call out Brown for releasing a music video that she said mocked their wedding party, also including false claims about her.
"It is beyond ironic that Zac's first act after filing an unnecessary public divorce lawsuit was to release a music video that deliberately mocked our wedding party from only a few months before -- including a false and defamatory caricature obviously intended to be me and hurt me -- followed by a second unnecessary and legally meritless public lawsuit and press release, yet he now claims his 'only hope' is that we show each other 'mutual respect' by keeping "private matters private" as we negotiate the terms of our divorce."
The couple announced that they would be separating in December, just months after they had gotten married in August. They maintained that they had "mutual respect for one another" as they asked for privacy throughout the legal process.
She states that Brown wants to portray himself as a victim while he drags out their divorce rulings in the public eye with legal moves such as the restraining order. While Brown has a legal team enlisted to help him, she insists that she does as well.
"It is clearly Zac, not me, who has strategically chosen to drag our difficult divorce negotiations into the public eye with these tactics in an effort to portray himself as a victim and to use his vast resources to silence me from telling the truth about our marriage. It will not work, and I will not be silenced by him no matter how ridiculous his tactics."
Yazdi ends the statement by saying that she looks forward to sharing her "truth" in court, where "he has unnecessarily dragged" her.
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