Actor Jason Patric's Ugly High Profile Custody Battle: Ex Paints Him As Abusive Boyfriend In Interview with Rolling Stone

Speed 2 actor Jason Patric is embroiled in a bitter custody battle with ex Danielle Schreiber. For the past year, he's campaigned to tell the media that he was completely cut out of his son's life and started a non profit organization called Stand Up For Gus, which has so far raised over $300,000 for legal counsel for victims of parental alienation.

However, Schreiber paints a much different picture of Patric in a recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

To begin with, Schreiber claims Patric merely donated his sperm to her and that she always intended to be a single mom. 

"Single mothers are not incomplete equations," says Schreiber. To say otherwise "violates my civil rights. Think of the stigma of being a single mom, and the way people are threatened by it. It's associated with a woman who's financially dependent on the state, sexually irresponsible, maybe promiscuous. Or I'm seen as someone in the default position waiting to complete my family. But all I'm doing is trying to protect the family structure that I have."

She also says she and Patric were in an abusive, dysfunctional relationship. She says in September 2005, after she upset him, he physically abused her for first time, grabbing her wrists and pushing her toward a wall in his home, which resulted in Schreiber slamming her head. "The next morning, Jason called me and told me he loved me, for the first time," she says.

They broke up in 2008 and 2009 he offered to be her sperm donor. According to Schreiber, he was not involved with the pregnancy or Gus' birth later that year.

The rekindled their relationship in 2011, but that was short-lived. It was after that Patric sued for paternity and insisted upon shared custody. When she refused, he took her to trial.  

Since then Schreiber has been granted a restraining order after it was found Patric was harassing her, her friends and family. He has taken to making several appearances in the media in hopes of gathering a groundswell of support.

As the case continues to play out, we'll keep you posted.