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Over a year before Courtney Clenney killed her boyfriend during a domestic dispute, Christian Obumseli sent her a text message claiming she had stabbed him so badly in the leg that he couldn’t walk.
The next day, the 27-year-old Black man sent his girlfriend, an OnlyFans influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers, another damning text message alleging that he had been hit in the head so many times during an argument—and with such force—that he felt like he sustained a concussion.
Despite these documented instances of the relationship going sideways, the couple stayed together, with Obumseli sometimes even offering an apology—including after the 26-year-old white woman he was dating uttered a racial slur.