Trailer Park Boys star Mike Smith has reportedly been charged with sexual assault in Canada.
Based on CBC Information, Smith, 54, was charged in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 2 in reference to an alleged assault that befell on December 30, 2017, in Dartmouth. Smith has been ordered to not talk with the alleged sufferer or go to their college, office or dwelling in the intervening time.
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A press release from the Trailer Park Boys group confirmed that Smith had “stepped away” from his position as managing director of their manufacturing firm, Trailer Park Boys Inc.
“We’re conscious of the allegation regarding Mike Smith relationship again to 2017 and take such issues severely,” a Trailer Park Boys Inc. assertion learn. “We acknowledge how troublesome an allegation of this nature is for all concerned. Out of respect for the authorized course of, we is not going to remark additional on the case.”
Smith performed Bubbles in additional than 100 episodes of Trailer Park Boys since its premiere in April 2001, along with reprising his position in 4 feature-length spinoff motion pictures and Netflix’s Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Collection. (The unique Trailer Parker Boys present was itself a by-product of filmmaker Mike Clattenburg’s quick movies.)
In April, Deadline reported that Smith and different veteran Trailer Park Boys solid members have been reuniting to make season 13 after a 7-year hiatus. Regardless of Smith’s authorized bother, a Trailer Park Boys Inc. consultant instructed CBC Information that the manufacturing group have been nonetheless “targeted on delivering the long-awaited thirteenth season for our followers.”
Mike Smith in September 2014. Getty Photos/JB Lacroix/WireImage
Smith was beforehand arrested in Los Angeles in April 2016 on suspicion of misdemeanor home battery and launched a number of hours later after posting $20,000 bail. He was accused of pinning a feminine good friend, Georgia Ling, in opposition to a wall throughout an argument.
Smith strenuously denied the allegations, saying in a press release on the time: “Georgia is a good friend of mine and we had a loud and heated dispute. That’s all. At no time did I assault her. I’m not responsible of the misdemeanour charged in opposition to me.”
Within the aftermath of his arrest, Smith’s longtime costar Lucy DeCoutere introduced that she was quitting her Trailer Park Boys position. (DeCoutere had been a part of the sitcom’s ensemble solid since 2001, enjoying a personality additionally named Lucy.)
“If I discover out that anyone is abusive, I lower them out of my life. It’s very simple,” DeCoutere, 55, tweeted in April 2016. “I’ve resigned from Trailer Park Boys.” (She later mentioned there have been “no dangerous emotions” between her and the Trailer Park Boys solid.)
Ling, the alleged sufferer within the case, launched a press release in April 2016 to disclaim that there had been any abuse.
“Mike and I did certainly have a heavy argument nevertheless it saddens me the way in which issues are being reported and the way in which it was dealt with by the police,” she mentioned. “At no level did I really feel I used to be in peril, in any other case I might’ve referred to as the police myself, which I didn’t. The police have been referred to as by others not current within the room who mistakenly perceived the argument to be one thing apart from what it was. When the officers arrived I attempted to guarantee them there was no actual difficulty, however they proceeded to arrest Mike.”
Los Angeles Metropolis Lawyer’s Workplace spokesperson Frank Mateljan confirmed to CBC Information in Could 2016 that no prices can be pursued “on account of [a] lack of enough proof.”
In case you or somebody you already know has been sexually assaulted, contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
