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The drama surrounding former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is sounding more like a Maury Povich episode with each subsequent headline.
Chatfield's wife Stephanie on Thursday hit back at her sister-in-law, Rebekah Chatfield, claiming Rebekah was seeing dead people whose spirits she thought were inside her body before she leveled sexual abuse allegations against the northern Michigan Republican.
Though Stephanie Chatfield says she knows the father of her five kids had multiple affairs, she maintains in a lengthy letter released with a lawyer that his relationships were consenual. And "being a victim of sexual assault herself," Stephanie wouldn't discredit any "true victims of sexual assault."
From Lansing City Pulse:
"(Rebekah) claims that voices told her to abandon her husband and children, and she has been gone since Dec. 1," the statement via Stephanie Chatfield's attorney reads. "She admits in her journal that she is having visions and doesn't know if her emotions are hers or somebody else's."
… "Rebekah's goal is to tell lies in an attempt to become a millionaire and film her documentary. She should not be rewarded for lying when so many details of her lies are verifiably false," the letter added.
The letter goes on to attempt to debunk a number of Rebekah Chatfield's claims by attacking specifics she's shared about the alleged encounters. Rebekah, for example, described unwanted touches in a basement stairwell, but Stephanie says her family "never lived in a house with three stories and a basement."
Lee Chatfield has alleged his relationship with his sister-in-law began when she was 18. Rebekah has said she was 15 or 16.
