Doja Cat’s brother, Raman Dalithando Dlamini, has been accused of knocking out the singer’s tooth in a courtroom submitting submitted by their mother.
Deborah Elizabeth Sawyer made the stunning declare within the paperwork filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on January 12, when she requested a short lived restraining order be granted towards 30-year-old Dlamini.
In the authorized doc obtained by Page Six, Sawyer claimed her daughter, whose actual identify is Amala Ratna Zadile Dlamini, had additionally suffered a collection of cuts and bruises because of her brother’s alleged actions.
“Raman has verbally assaulted her in a very degrading and demeaning manor [sic],” the submitting claims.
Sawyer additionally alleged the singer had been made to really feel ‘unsafe and traumatized’, and that she’d had a few of her private belongings stolen and broken by Dlamini.
As effectively as alleged violence in the direction of Doja, Sawyer claimed that Dlamini had additionally been bodily abusive in the direction of her personally ‘a number of instances’ over the previous 12 months, together with in early January.
Her son additionally allegedly threatened to kill her, in keeping with the doc.
This just isn’t the primary time Sawyer has requested a short lived restraining order towards her son.
The mother has been granted the orders since 2017, however these orders have since expired.
In response to the submitting, a Los Angeles decide granted Sawyer court-ordered safety from Dlamini, pending a listening to for a everlasting restraining order.
However, the decide didn’t grant the order for Doja, as an alternative stating the singer would want to request an order of her personal.
Doja is the youngest youngster of her mother and pop, Dumisani Dlamini, and was born in Los Angeles earlier than shifting to New York.
She’s beforehand admitted that she does not know her dad ‘very effectively’, although described him as an ‘unbelievable dancer and an excellent actor’.
When Doja was nonetheless a toddler, she moved together with her mom and brother to an ashram in California headed by Alice Coltrane, the spouse of jazz musician John Coltrane.
There, she discovered her first dance strikes, telling Time Magazine: “I feel that helped form how I emote on stage as a result of it’s a really emotional type of dance.”
The household ultimately moved again to Los Angeles.
In 2021, Doja described her mother as a being ‘like, a hippie from the ’60s’.
“Super, like, chill with most issues,” Doja continued, chatting with Billboard. “When it came to music and everything, she wanted to be a part of it. She wanted to hear it.”
UNILAD has contacted representatives for Doja Cat for remark.
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