{"id":11803,"date":"2021-01-21T00:31:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T00:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/hearthstone-pro-zalae-accused-of-domestic-abuse"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:46:47","slug":"hearthstone-pro-zalae-accused-of-domestic-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/hearthstone\/hearthstone-pro-zalae-accused-of-domestic-abuse","title":{"rendered":"Hearthstone pro Zalae accused of domestic abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hearthstone Grandmasters player Paul “Zalae” Nemeth has been accused of physical and psychological violence from his ex-partner.<\/p>\n

The accusations against the 34-year-old came from his ex-girlfriend and Twitch streamer lidlRini, who has shared her story via a TwitLonger.<\/p>\n

According to lidlRini, the last time she saw Zalae he was “repeatedly taunting” her with his body posture “like he was going to hit me” while grabbing her wrists tightly so that he can hold her “in the small spaces”.<\/p>\n

lidlRini says that she was telling him to back away because she was scared, but he kept doing that while yelling at her.<\/p>\n

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TL;DW Zalae and his abuse in our relationship<\/p>\n

Read: https:\/\/t.co\/zyEfvSDYpc<\/a><\/p>\n

— Rini (@lidlRini) January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

lidlRini claims that “there were about 10 – 13 occasions” of her trying to explain to Zalae that she’s scared and feeling threatened, but he didn’t back off.<\/p>\n

“This resulted in me giving 2 open-handed arm slaps I laid on the middle of his arm,” she states. “The biggest part- he’s way bigger than me & I didn’t use real force behind it, it was a warning because words were not helping and he was very scary.”<\/p>\n

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Zalae plays in Hearthstone Grandmasters, Blizzard’s invite-only competitive series (Picture: Blizzard)<\/span><\/p>\n

According to lidlRini, this provoked Zalae to become even more aggressive. Allegedly, he picked her up and started “dragging” her to their bedroom, where he threw her on the bed.<\/p>\n

What happened after is by far the worst part of the story, as lidlRini claims that her life was endangered.<\/p>\n

“[Zalae] physically got on top of me and put a pillow over my face while holding me down, effectively suffocating me until I managed to get a breath to yell ‘I can’t breathe!'”<\/p>\n

lidlRini says that he was blinded by rage and her words “snapped him out of it” so he let go of the pillow and got up.<\/p>\n

The next morning, according to lidlRini, Zalae put the blame on her.<\/p>\n

“[Zalae] woke me up early the next morning and he told me I had less than 24 hours to get out of his house and that -I- was abusive and he didn’t feel safe.”<\/p>\n

The second part of lidlRini’s statement is focused on Zalae’s psychological abuse during their relationship.<\/p>\n

lidlRini explains that they have lived together for about 10 weeks before the incident and that he was “incredibly emotionally abusive” and that he is a control freak who didn’t respect her at all.<\/p>\n

“[Zalae] was telling me things like ‘you’re not good enough’ and ‘you’re on a maternal clock so you need to be better\/what I want before you run out of time to have kids.’ It was all about control.”<\/p>\n