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Nicolas Cage, Christina Fulton, Weston Cage.
Getty Images (3)Nicolas Cage‘s ex Christina Fulton shares her side of the story after their son, Weston Cage Coppolawas arrested on a misdemeanor warrant.
We weekly confirmed on Wednesday, July 10, that Cage Coppola, 33, was taken into custody by the LAPD Fugitives Department for an incident that occurred in April. Fulton, 57, was present when the altercation occurred.
“On April 28, 2024, around 5:30 p.m., I received urgent messages from friends of my son, Weston Cage, regarding his deteriorating mental condition, urging me to come help,” Fulton said exclusively Us on Thursday, July 11 of the incident. “When I arrived to offer him support and comfort, he was already in the midst of a manic rage.”
Daniele Venturelli/WireImage Nicolas Cage is the loving father of three children. Cage became a father for the first time in December 1990 when the actor welcomed son Weston with ex-girlfriend Christina Fulton. After Weston’s birth, Cage and Fulton were no longer romantically involved. Cage moved on with Patricia Arquette to whom he was married […]
She explained that “within minutes” her son’s behavior changed. “I was brutally attacked and suffered serious injuries,” Fulton recalled. (Us reviewed a photo of Fulton from the alleged attack, which showed her with a swollen jaw and bruises on her face.)
“Despite my desperate pleas for the responding police officers to detain him for a mental health evaluation, the police officers refused my request and ignored my urgent need for my medical attention,” she alleged.
Fulton’s lawyer Allen Sepanyan claimed as much Us that no medical assistance or care had been provided at the scene and that no ambulance had been called.
Weston Coppola Cage and Christina Fulton.
Paul Redmond/WireImageFulton added: “As a mother, I am deeply saddened and concerned about Weston’s ongoing mental health crisis. It is imperative that he gets the help he so desperately needs.”
In response to his mother’s statement, Cage told Coppola exclusively Us, “There is no help that I urgently need. A lot of incorrect information is printed.”
After being arrested on Wednesday, Cage Coppola was released on $150,000 bail.
Fulton and Cage, 60, welcomed their son in December 1990. The couple split shortly after Cage Coppola’s birth. The National treasure actor continued Patricia Arquette, to whom he was married from 1995 to 2001; he married and divorced late Lisa Marie Presley in 2002.
The Coppola family has long been Hollywood royalty, and their cross-generational talent means that isn’t likely to change any time soon. The famous lineage started with Carmine Coppola, an orchestral conductor and Oscar-winning film composer. Carmine and his wife, Italia Pennino, shared three children: August Floyd Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire. All […]
Oscar-winning actor Cage later welcomed his second son, Kal-El, with his third wife in 2005, Alice Kim. Cage and Kim called it quits after 12 years of marriage in 2016. He married his current wife, Riko Shibatain February 2021. The couple shares a daughter, August, whom they welcomed in 2022.
For his part, Cage Coppola has repeatedly made headlines for his run-ins with the law. In 2011, he was arrested along with his ex-wife on charges of domestic violence Nikki Williams. Cage Coppola denied that he had ‘assaulted’ his wife in a statement on Facebook.
Six years later, Cage Coppola, an actor himself, was arrested on drunken driving and hit-and-run charges. He was taken into custody after crashing into stop signs, parked cars, mailboxes and a street sign before crashing into a tree and fleeing the scene. Police say he will not face charges for leaving the scene of the accident.