The divorce between Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly and his ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy have gotten personal.
O'Reilly has attempted to have his wife kicked out of the Catholic Church, according to a report by Gawker on Monday.
The couple started living in separate houses in May 2010 and made the divorce official on September 1, 2011.
Things have only got uglier as O'Reilly took advantage of his connections to ignite internal affairs against his ex-wife's boyfriend in 2011. Her boyfriend was a Nassau County Detective.
As the relationship continued to fall into a downward spiral, the two were back in court. A month after the divorce, McPhilmy was battling O'Reilly in court again.
McPhilmy discovered a therapist, who was supposed to stay neutral while helping the couple's children, was a member of O'Reilly's staff.
According to Gawker, "The mother claimed that the [father] had repeatedly violated conditions of the agreement. The mother further alleged that, after the execution of the agreement, the father had hired the children's therapist as a full-time employee to perform virtually all of his parental duties.
"Moreover, the full-time employment of the children's therapist, the person designated in the agreement as a neutral third-party 'arbitrator' of custodial disputes, by the father, constitutes a significant change of circumstance which could undermine the integrity of the agreement's custodial provisions," the opinion went on to say.
O'Reilly would do his own share of fighting as, according to Gawker, he got the Catholic Church to reprimand his wife.
The Catholic Church has reprimanded twice. First, she was told that her second marriage to the Nassau County Police detective was not valid in the eyes of God. She should cease to tell her children that it is valid. Secondly she is to no longer take communion because she has divorced and remarried, these reprimands have come in a written statement.
Gawker also mentions a $65,000 donation from O'Reilly to New York Catholic parishes and schools two years ago-which might have helped him get a bit of sway. The reprimands could be just the first step on the walkway to excommunication.
According to Yahoo, neither O'Reilly nor McPhilmy have commented on the report.
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