Johnny Manziel Latest: Suicide Threat, Murder Warning

Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel repeatedly hit, restrained and threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend during a night out in Dallas, according to an affidavit she signed for a restraining order against the former Heisman Trophy winner, which also said he had threatened suicide and murder.

At one point, Manziel hit her on the ear so bad that she couldn’t hear out of it for at least two days, she said.

A judge Friday signed a protective order to keep Manziel away from her for two years and ordered him to pay $12,000 in legal fees, according to WFAA. He was not charged or arrested.

The Browns plan to release Manziel as soon as allowed under NFL rules, according to multiple reports, and his dad has said that, “If they can’t get him help, he won’t live to see his 24th birthday.”

“Johnny P. Manziel committed family violence against me within the past thirty days,” his ex-girlfriend said in the affidavit, which was posted Monday by NBC 5 in Dallas. “I believe that there is a clear and present danger that (Manziel) is likely to commit family violence against me if a protective order is not granted by this court.”

Manziel had been with the woman for two years, and they lived together in Cleveland for four months before their December 2015 breakup, she said.

On Friday, Jan. 29, she went out in Dallas with some of her friends, going from bar to bar, and later texted Manziel about an after-party at a nearby hotel, she said. She and two friends met him there, planning to spend the night in his room, but the two friends eventually left, leaving her and Manziel alone, she said.

She told Manziel that she wanted to sleep on the couch, and Manziel “threw me on the bed,” she said. She became scared and tried to leave the hotel room. “He restrained me from leaving, and I tried to fight him off,” she said.

They eventually went downstairs to the valet and said she told the valet, “Please don’t let him take me. I’m scared for my life!”

“I don’t know what to do,” the valet told her, and Manziel “literally (threw) me in the front passenger seat of his car, and he went around and got in the driver’s seat,” she said.

When Manziel was backing out of the parking spot, she jumped out of the car and went to hide in nearby bushes, she said. Manziel “grabbed me by my hair and threw me back into the car,” where, ”He hit me with his open hand on my left ear,” and she couldn’t hear out of it two days after the incident, she said.

She started to hit Manziel, and he threw her across the car, hitting her head on the windshield and falling on the floorboard, she said. She screamed, ”I hate you! Just leave me alone! I hate you!” and Manziel said he wanted to kill himself, she said. To calm him down, she said she told him “I love you,” and when she started crying, he screamed, “Shut up or I’ll kill us both.”

When they got to her house, he took her phone and smashed it, she said, and when Manziel went outside she tried to FaceTime her parents on her computer to get help. He came back inside and found out what she had been doing, so she grabbed a knife, fearing for her life, she said.

He went to the parking lot, and she banged on her neighbors’ doors for help, but by the time anybody came to help her, Manziel had ”taken off on foot,” she said.

“I continue to be extremely concerned for my health and well-being,” she wrote.

Manziel has denied the allegations and said he is, “100 percent focused on football.”

• Read the full affidavit here.

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