Please be seated.
Hello, Your Honor.
Hello.
This is the case of Wray v. Wise/Eastham.
Thank you, Jerome.
Good day, everyone.
AUDIENCE: Good day.
Ms. Wray, two men claim your two-year-old son Jordan
calls them Daddy.
WRAY: Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: They also say you've held them both
financially responsible for your child.
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: You say those statements are lies.
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: So you confess you got caught in a love triangle
and now, though it breaks your heart,
you don't know which man fathered your son.
Yes, Your Honor.
Mr. Wise, you say you thought Jordan
was your biological son,
but now you're filled with doubt
since Ms. Wray made the shocking confession
she was also having sex with another man.
(AUDIENCE GROANS)
Yes, Your Honor.
Mr. Eastham, you are the other potential father,
and you've also been tested.
Yes, Your Honor.
So, Ms. Wray, how did this love triangle begin?
The love triangle began
at the end of the summer in 2011.
Me and Mr. Wise was on a break.
And Mr. Eastham was a longtime friend of mine,
a shoulder to cry on.
And we had two different occasions
that we had got drunk and partied together.
We do not know if we had sex,
but it is a possibility
that he could be Jordan's father.
Okay, so, Mr. Eastham, was this the one and only time
you were intimate with Ms. Wray?
No.
WRAY: That's true.
No.
We used to be together here and there.
Like when me and Josh would split up,
Dave was my best friend,
and there was always a connection.
So yeah, he was my go-to person, that is true.
So you were sleeping together and it wasn't just one night.
It was an ongoing relationship
that usually happened during the break from Mr. Wise.
Yes, Your Honor.
Mr. Wise, when did you find out about Mr. Eastham
and the fact that Ms. Wray
was in a sexual relationship with him?
Two months after Jordan was born.
JUDGE LAKE: Two months?
WISE: Two months.
WRAY: That is when I told Josh
that Dave could possibly be the father
because we had them two nights that we had partied together,
and we do not know what happened.
Neither one of us could remember.
We've had multiple conversations about it.
And I was honestly scared to death to tell Josh
because we had twins that passed away,
and I knew it would break
Josh's heart and break my heart
if Jordan was not Josh's child.
So how did you tell him?
We were up laying in bed one night,
and I was just bawling my eyes out,
and the conversation just...
I had to come out and tell Mr. Wise the truth.
And what did you say, exactly?
I told Mr. Wise about the night
me and Mr. Eastham partied together.
I told him the truth
that we are not sure if we had sex.
We do know that there was oral sex,
but we do not know if there was sexual intercourse.
Um, there is a little possibility
that Mr. Eastham could be Jordan's father.
And, Mr. Eastham,
you actually submitted baby pictures of yourself.
Yes, ma'am. Yeah.
AUDIENCE: Aw.
WRAY: My son looks like me when I was a child.
And now that Jordan's hair is cut...
WISE: But he does look like him, too.
I agree with him.
JUDGE LAKE: Mr. Wise, I need you to speak a little louder.
You said he also...
WISE: I agree with him.
He did look like Dave when he was born.
JUDGE LAKE: You believe he looks
like Mr. Eastham as well.
Yes, Your Honor,
until he got a little bit older.
JUDGE LAKE: Until he got older.
WISE: But then he looks like me now.
Now you feel like he looks like you.
Do you have evidence of that?
Jerome, would you hand that to me?
This is a picture of
Jordan on the left,
and then you, Mr. Wise, on the right.
And you feel like now he's starting to look like you.
WISE: Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: Do you see the resemblance, ma'am?
WRAY: I absolutely do, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: You do?
WRAY: He's, you know, starting to become a little man.
I think he looks just like Josh.
JUDGE LAKE: You love that little boy.
WRAY: Both of them. Both of them.
He calls you Daddy?
Yes.
He's always known me as Dad.
He's called me Dad before, too, though.
He calls you Dad, too?
He does. He does call me Dad sometimes.
That's not true, Your Honor.
It is true.
So, Mr. Eastham, tell me about
the relationship you've developed with Jordan.
EASTHAM: I've done everything
a father should do for that boy.
Like, right there is a video.
Like, that's my little buddy, you know?
I would raise him as a son...
But he knows who Daddy is, and you know that as well.
Okay, you might be right now, but he has...
What I'm saying is that he has called me Dad before,
multiple times.
And so, Mr. Eastham, in your heart,
do you feel like Jordan is your biological child?
That's my boy right there, yeah.
WISE: That's my boy.
EASTHAM: It is what it is.
Ain't nobody gonna take my son from me.
Ain't nobody gonna take him from me neither.
But I'm just trying...
I feel like since day one you've tried to hold
that 5% possibility
of you being Jordan's dad over my head.
Let me say this. Have I skipped out?
Have I been M.I.A. for months at a time?
No.
Have I been there? I've been there, right?
You have been there. You have been good to him.
That's the only reason that you're...
I feel like you're around Flesha 99% of the time.
I feel like both of you guys are only good to Jordan
because both of you guys want me to be with you.
Wait. Repeat that.
WISE: Hopefully one day I can get my family back,
if he is my son.
WRAY: I don't want anybody.
I want to focus on Jordan and myself.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
This has been said a million times.
I don't want no one.
I've been in a situation where I've had a job
making good money
and could have done everything we needed to do...
And I've told you maybe there's something missing.
Have you ever thought of that?
You not trying to woman-up is what's missing.
Maybe. Maybe so.
And so, Mr. Wise,
you said you want to get your family back.
Hopefully someday, if he's my kid, yeah.
WRAY: I don't know if that's possible.
JUDGE LAKE: If he's your biological son?
Yes.
And you've developed a strong relationship
with Jordan as well.
WISE: If he's not mine, it's going to crush me.
WRAY: And it would crush me and crush Jordan.
WISE: It's gonna hurt so bad.
WRAY: I don't know what I would do
if Jordan wasn't Mr. Wise's.
It would crush all of us.
Except I feel like it would make Dave
the happiest person on Earth.
WISE: Yes, I can see that happening, too.
I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings.
I'm not trying to hurt nobody's feelings.
You act as if, Ms. Wray,
when you said it would make Dave the happiest person,
as if him wanting to be the father
of this beautiful little boy
is a jab at you or a jab at Mr. Wise.
Do you feel like...
WRAY: No.
He would be great to my son.
He is great to my son,
and I know he genuinely loves him.
I just feel like that can't be the outcome.
It would crush me, it would crush Jordan,
and I don't even know what I would tell Jordan.
Why you been playing games for the past two years, then?
What types of games?
What types of games, Mr. Eastham?
Okay. If they're talking about trying
to get their family back and all that,
why hasn't she been trying to do that for two years
while Jordan has been aging for two years.
It was never my intention to "get my family back."
I've heard you say that numerous times.
I have said...
Like, when we would break up for two or three days...
I have said you ruined my life.
For seven years, seven years,
you tried to sabotage mine and Josh's relationship.
That's the truth.
Tell me that's not true.
You would send Mr. Wise text messages
and tell him we had sex and all kind of other stuff
to make him believe that because you know
that he always was a jealous person.
Make him believe it wasn't true?
A lot of times it wasn't.
There was times, yeah, when me and Josh did split up
that, yeah, I did get with you.
So, Mr. Eastham, is there any truth to the fact
that you wanted to sabotage their relationship?
No, I never wanted to sabotage it.
WRAY: That's a lie.
I never wanted to sabotage anybody's relationship.
So you felt like she really cared about you?
Yeah. I mean, and I know she still does.
I'm not saying she don't.
You really wanted a relationship.
It's clear you wanted a relationship with her.
Of course.
And not just this best friend thing.
Right.
Because in essence, she would be with Mr. Wise
and then every time things got a little muddy,
she would run to you.
She said in her testimony earlier
you're her go-to person.
I mean, I guess that's what it is.
So you didn't want her to just go to you,
you wanted her to stay with you.
For the last year and a half, two years,
we've been together solid, pretty much.
About a year and a half.
So, now, for the last year and a half, two years,
you've been together, solid. Is that dating?
No, like, we lived together. Stayed together.
Oh, you lived together?
Yeah.
For the last year and a half, we did.
And... Wait. Jordan is two.
Jordan was two months old
when me and Mr. Wise split up.
It was right after I told him there was a possibility
Dave could be the father.
You remember you sent me that text that said,
"I just want you to see your mini-you." You remember that?
WRAY: He did look like you,
and I acknowledged, when you showed your pictures,
he did look like you.
That's what made me fall in love with both of y'all,
you know what I mean?
Before Jordan was born, you wanted to be with me,
and you know that, and I know that.
He told me he was gonna ruin our relationship.
What did you say, Mr. Wise?
I need you to speak a little louder.
Mr. Eastham told me he was going to ruin
mine and hers relationship before she even left me.
He told me about it numerous times.
Okay, I might have said it once or twice, but...
WISE: Why would you do that to somebody that's happy?
Well, if she was happy,
she wouldn't be coming to my house, bro.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold up. Hold up.
If she was, if she was happy in the past year and a half,
how come me and her had occurrences...
Ask her that.
Because you ran back to your baby's mom as well,
that's why.
So two can play that game, baby.
I sure did.
Yeah.
I sure did. But when I find out you're over here
and over there, and over here and over there
and up there and down here, all that...
No, no, no, don't make me sound like
I'm no ho that just ran around.
I'm not saying that, but there's, you know...
Okay, then if that was so true,
how come two hours ago, it was,
"I love you so much,
"I can't wait to see you back in our city."
Okay, I did say that.
But I'm such a..., why wild you want me?
I'm not talking about right now.
Oh, but I was a... in the past?
That makes tons of sense.
Why are you here?
I'm here because this is someone
I've was with since I've been 14 years old.
EASTHAM: Okay.
I fell in love with my best friend
and made a mistake when we were partying.
That's why I'm here.
I'm here because that little boy on that TV screen,
to give him peace of mind,
to give me peace of mind
and to give both of you guys peace of mind.
That's why I'm here.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
You all have painted the picture, and it's clear.
I don't want either one of them, Your Honor.
I love Josh, and I genuinely love Dave.
He is my best friend,
knows me better than anyone on this Earth.
I want to focus on that baby right there and myself
and then build a relationship.
It doesn't even have to necessarily have to be them.
It could be a stranger that I've never met before.
But right now, Jordan is my focus.
I feel like Dave...
Dave's trying to paint a picture like I'm a big...
and that's not the case.
EASTHAM: I'm not trying to do all that.
Yes, you are.
I don't want to hear no sorries
when we get home. Don't speak.
Trying to tell the truth about this case and why we're here.
We are here for Jordan.
So is everything I've said been a lie?
Is that what you're saying?
You beat around the bush a little bit, but yeah.
There's two sides to every story, right?
JUDGE LAKE: Mr. Eastham, I'm curious.
You say she beats around the bush.
Look, from where I sit, she's been pretty straightforward.
What is she leaving out?
She'll tell you...
WRAY: He's bitter right now, Your Honor,
because me and Josh have spent a lot of time together
in the last two weeks.
And Josh... Like, it's us with Jordan.
They've spent a lot of time together since we split up.
WRAY: And he's bitter over that.
I'll spend time with who I want to spend time with,
and we've been with our son.
And so you have two men that want to be with you.
Pretty much, Your Honor.
Two men that want to be your child's father.
You have an ex-boyfriend and you have a best friend.
WRAY: Yes, Your Honor.
Listen, I've sat here and I've said to myself
"Well, when does this end?"
Like, it's like a tennis match that I've witnessed
between two men and you,
running back from one to the other, one to the other.
But if I'm completely honest, I don't think it's over.
I don't think it's over.
I know it's over.
EASTHAM: Something's gotta happen.
Listen, if you decide
to work on your relationship with Mr. Wise at some point,
if you try to work on that relationship
and then something goes wrong,
it's almost like an instinct that your next point...
Hi.
...is point B.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
He knows you'll be back.
Everyone's got their opinion, Your Honor.
So, everybody can see what's going on.
The important thing is you gotta get out of the denial.
You gotta act like
you're all under control in this situation
and decide to get control,
meaning fight that urge.
Fight that urge to go from one man to the next.
One man to the next.
And back. And forth.
And back. And forth.
That's what you been doing!
And they just sitting around here waiting for the serve.
They're just waiting.
The real deal, Jerome, is this isn't gonna end,
even with these results.
But I'm ready for them.
Oh, no, this is gonna end.
These results were prepared by DNA Diagnostics
and they read as follows.
In the case of Wray v. Wise/Eastham,
when it comes to two-year-old Jordan Wise
and whether Mr. Wise or Mr. Eastham
is his biological father,
it has been determined by this court, Mr...
JUDGE LAKE: In the case of Wray v. Wise/Eastham,
when it comes to two-year-old Jordan Wise
and whether Mr. Wise or Mr. Eastham
is his biological father,
it has been determined by this court...
Mr...
Wise is his father.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
I told you.
I told you. I told you. I told you.
WRAY: (SOBBING) I told you. I told you.
I told everybody.
I knew.
JUDGE LAKE: How do you feel, Mr. Wise?
Happy.
Amazing.
I love that kid.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
We have counseling.
We have resources for you all.
Take advantage of it.
Don't be afraid to ask for help sometimes.
You said yourself, this is your go-to guy.
But ultimately, you need another go-to person.
It has to be you.
That's right.
You gotta be the go-to girl, okay?
I know you can do it.
I wish you all the very best of luck.
Take care of that handsome little boy, okay?
Court is adjourned.
Now I know he's my biological son,
I'll take care of him way more than I did before.
As far as Miss Wray goes, we're friends.
And I think that might be all it ever will be.
She's got a lot to deal with in her head
that I think she needs to fix.
Maybe we can work it out someday. I don't know.
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