Laura Clery / Stephen Hilton

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Wow. I’ve not followed them since the beginning, I’ve only become aware of them a couple of years ago and found their content to be entertaining at times. Recently, videos of Stephen’s relapse popped up and I couldn’t help but look - their split seemed very civilised at the beginning and has now turned very ugly. He is clearly having a drug fuelled breakdown and they’re both publicly dragging each other through the mud. What’s everyone’s thoughts?

Yeah I do see it a lot as an excuse for cheating

Another one is right guys reviews. What’s happening there is just horrific

Oh I have a "sex addiction " so its not my responsibility!

Yep, sex addiction is just another word for can’t keep it in my trousers, but don’t blame me, it’s an addiction so I can’t help it.

It really is pathetic saying Sex addiction I understand addictive destructive behaviour etc but it's a personally or temperament and to throw your hands up and say well I can't help it doesn't do them any favours.

Yeah 0 accountability and concern for your family - especially when it’s so public. It’s actually crazy when these family type influencers rise to fame and then their lives fall apart so publicly

It’s sad, he’s actually a really talented musician. Or was. He writes film scores.

I stopped following a while back, mainly because I felt bad watching their kids. She even had Poppy’s birth filmed and put on Instagram, ffs.

They just can't cope with it because their income is content they get caught in the loop of drama, I follow a young guy does silly videos but he's now hanging around with love islanders and you can see his content changing , its .strange.

I don't follow religiously, they used to make some funny videos.

I feel really sorry for her. Her ex husband announced very publicly he had a relapse on SM, without prewarning her. I think claimed to be getting sober, then emerged he was literally planning on being sober for 30 days while his parents visited then planned to start using again. Now he's posting vile shit having a drug fuelled break down because she got a restraining order and won't let him see the kids. He's dangerous, and she's a recovering addict as well having to try cope with all this happening in the spotlight.

Don't agree with everything she does but right now she's stepped up and protected her kids best she can, and has spoken about him a lot less than he has and spoken badly about him as little as possible compared to all the paranoid nonsense he's spouting.

@WTF987 I thought the 30 days off 1 on was to write music? He claimed he was on some sort of musical journey and would use for a day, create, stay sober for 30 days then get high and create again and that he was totally in control. He’s now obviously lost all that control. People in the comments have been pleading with him not to do it etc and check in to rehab but he’s now claiming that he won’t go as it won’t bring his kids back and that Laura made the clinic administer sedatives to him last time (I mean, anything is possible in America but this doesn’t sound likely)

@howmanytimesnc maybe he did, like I said, I don't follow religiously. The way I have seen/heard I thought he was using it for music as he thought 'controlled' usage was helping him write but his parents were coming so he was sober for 30 days then going back to using it to write music.

Either way he's clearly full breakdown and I can't see it ending any other way than either rock bottom or death, with the social media attention making death more likely. He doesn't want help, he still thinks he's right. Fairly sure I've heard before when they were still together he was actually clinically diagnosed as having narcissistic tendencies.

I hadn’t realised it was all falling apart. I stopped following when Laura was pregnant with their daughter as I wasn’t feeling it with all the massive oversharing and thought it was a recipe for disaster.

I used to follow them years ago when their son was a baby. They seemed happily married at that point. I forgot about them tbh then a video popped up few months ago I was really shocked by what I saw tbh. Really sad

Yes, I did find it interesting when he said about Laura was meant to come and do family days as they are compulsory for recovery in certain centres, I didnt think it was true but actually looked it up and certain centres demand family involvement or they person wont progress and will stay in longer. So I do question a bit what happened last time he was in a recovery place, but generally the fact that he thought it was fine to start taking drugs to make music and there would be no effect on him seeing the kids is insane and he needs to get off longer term but I don't see him doing that and going through any programmes as such.

Yeah I mean it’s probably likely she didn’t go but he could check himself in to a rehab that doesn’t require that but you need to want to get clean to get clean I suppose

It’s all gone v odd now - his friend Brian is chat got?!

It's been odd for a while. Brian the bot is probably the only 'person' that agrees with him and why listen to all the real person that doesn't rather than the bot that does?

He was also spouting about successfully representing himself in court and them seeing through laura ... she says he literally asked for a continuance.

Laura needs to stop baiting him though. The whole “soft launch” of the boyfriend post really wasn’t necessary.

I know she can post what she likes, but if my ex husband was unhinged and calling an AI app his best friend, I’d be keeping a low profile to protect myself and my children, not fuelling his delusions and rage even further.

They've been seperated years though. Why shouldn't she be able to live her life and have a boyfriend just because her ex has gone on a drug fueled breakdown? I imagine she left him precisely so she didn't have to deal with this type of shit!

She can live her own life. But she doesn’t have to post about the new boyfriend does she? She’s can do what she likes in private, but she’s a massive attention seeker too.

It’s pretty stupid to be posting things that will antagonise him further. She knows what she’s doing, it’s getting her views, comments and attention.

Shes been with her boyfriend for 2 years. And now, of all times when he’s kicking off and making threats is the time to do a stupid “soft launch” post? Give me a break.

Shes been with her boyfriend for 2 years. And now, of all times when he’s kicking off and making threats is the time to do a stupid “soft launch” post? Give me a break.

I didn’t know that - my first thought was it’s how he monetises on her channel mostly (relationship based content) but now seeing she’s been with him for that long but only just ‘launched’ him does sound a bit sus

She’s monetised every second of the divorce. She didn’t have to keep filming with him week after week, dredging it all up, but she knew where the money and the views were.

They are just as bad as each other, only he’s spiralling.

Well, the soft launch post seems to have completely send him into a tailspin. He’s now saying his son is some sort of prophet for his new “church” as he keeps calling it.

If Laura doesn’t get off the internet now and protect her children, she cannot try to take the high road anymore.

This whole thing is ridiculous and dangerous and she’s just as bad as he is.

He was already in a downward spiral, that's literally why this thread exists. He's on drugs, he's having a breakdown. He's been posting conspiracy stories for weeks, paranoid and delusional.

Do I agree with her posting her whole life on social media? No. But I also completely disagree with you blaming her for his behaviour. She's had the boyfriend for 2 years, he likely already knew before he went off the deep end on drugs.

Social media is her income. I doubt he's paying for the kids. She needs to earn money. And she is just posting the same stuff she normally does, I've literally seen one post talking about Stephen recently and it was just to say court didn't happen as he asked for a continuance yet he's posting horrible stuff left, right and center. What she's posting isn't damaging for the kids if they see it, what he's posting is.

I get that it’s her income.

But he’s online telling any old nutter that his very young son is some sort of messiah. She posts those children constantly. It wouldn’t be hard to work out where they live, where the children go to school etc from what she posts.

Where did I blame her for his behaviour? I do think it’s really fucking stupid and dangerous to be baiting him with some soft launch post, yes. She could have done that long before now (or not at all, how ridiculous), but she chose to do it now when things are at crisis point.

He’s completely lost the plot, I wouldn’t be antagonising him any further, in her shoes, I’d be more concerned about protecting myself and my children from any idiot supporters he has who believe his nonsense.