NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Jayson Williams' wife says in court papers filed in New York that the former NBA star was an emotionally abusive husband and father.
In her divorce filing, Tanya Williams claims that her husband once told her he would kill her and their daughters and then set the house on fire over their bodies, the New York Post reports. Jayson Williams
also broke a car window with his fist while the girls were in the car, she said.
Tanya Williams filed for divorce last week in Manhattan Supreme Court. Her husband is awaiting retrial on manslaughter charges involving a limousine driver who was shot and killed at his mansion in western New Jersey.
She describes her husband as someone who went on trips with buddies while never going on vacation with his daughters. She said that he once stumbled into the girls' rooms while drunk, injuring himself.
Christopher Adams, Jayson Williams' lawyer, accused Tanya Williams of lying.
He told the Post she has been "been threatening for months to make up false stories like these unless Jayson submitted to her outrageous demands."
