Thomas Ravenel, an Independent candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina running against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), posted a rather personal paragraph on his Facebook page where he responded to allegations of assaulting the hairdresser of the mother of his child, Kathryn Dennis.
Those allegations came out a week ago. A police report of the alleged incident cited the hairdresser saying that Ravenel (pictured) went to the home of his 7-month-old daughter in downtown Charleston, and subsequently slipped and fell into the pool there. Ravenel, according to the hairdresser in the police report, then slammed a door causing her to hit her arm.
Ravenel said those accusations are false.
Ravenel and Dennis’ relationship was followed in season one of a Bravo channel reality show.
The post has been deleted but South Carolina’s WISTV re-published the entire post below:
When the allegations surfaced that I had assaulted Kathryn Dennis’ hairdresser, I pleaded with Kathryn to leave the Bravo shoot in Jekyll Island. They had even packed her bags and had lined up a driver. She told me she was coming to clear my name but then she backed out at the last second and delayed telling the truth by 1 an 1/2 day. $900k of my campaign money down the drain. The investigators even told me that if she would have just come corroborated the accuser’s story I would be cleared. The temptation of missing film time was a more a important value to her. So telling. Our relationship is over.
WISTV also noted that Dennis said over Twitter that she is no longer with Ravenel.
On Monday Ravenel wrote that it was a “huge mistake” to write the post.
“I made a huge mistake yesterday. No father should EVER speak negatively about the mother of his child, period,” Ravenel wrote.
In 2008, Ravenel, a former South Carolina state treasurer, was sentenced to 10 months in prison on a federal drug charge related to cocaine use.
This post has been updated.
