Jesse Williams has accused his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, of violating the courtroom’s choice to award him sole custody over their kids’s healthcare.
In keeping with courtroom paperwork filed on Tuesday, Could 6, and obtained by Us Weekly, Williams, 43, claimed that Drake-Lee, 43, has “blocked” the earlier courtroom order by “threatening” their kids’s orthodontist. (Williams and Drake-Lee share daughter Sadie, 11, and son Maceo, 9.)
“Throughout our assembly with the youngsters’s orthodontist after we had been to debate, amongst different issues, the physician’s sport plan for treating Sadie’s impacted higher proper canine tooth and the rising cyst round her tooth,” the submitting learn. “Aryn aggressively informed the physician she doesn’t consent to therapy and that she is going to SUE the physician if he touches the youngsters. The orthodontist promptly requested us to go away.”
Williams famous that he apologized to the orthodontist following the incident and left the follow. The actor claimed that his daughter was confused by her mom’s alleged outburst.
“What’s flawed with Mother? Did we get kicked out? Why does she hold doing this? Why received’t she let me get braces?” Sadie allegedly mentioned, per the submitting. “Can we simply return with out her?”
Williams added that his daughter has been ready since August 2024 to have the dental work achieved and Drake-Lee has allegedly refused to permit the therapy. The Gray’s Anatomy alum made the appointment for his daughter after he was awarded custody over his kids’s healthcare wants earlier this 12 months. He notified and invited Drake-Lee to the appointment because the courtroom instructed him to do.
He argued that Sadie shouldn’t have to attend any longer to deal with the situation because it may result in issues and “dangers.”

Williams requested the courtroom that he be “permitted to acquire healthcare therapy for the youngsters with none discover” to Drake-Lee and prohibit her “from interfering with or speaking with the healthcare suppliers.” He additionally requested {that a} choice be made before the pair’s subsequent courtroom date, which is scheduled for July, as he’s fearful about his daughter’s situation.
In Touch was first to report the information.
In March, a decide granted Williams sole authorized custody “of the minor kids as to their healthcare,” per docs obtained by In Contact. He was additionally required to tell Drake-Lee of all info relating to their youngsters’ well being, schooling and welfare.
Us confirmed in September 2024 that Williams requested to change the pair’s custody association. He sought to vary his visitation quantity and procure equal joint bodily custody. Williams claimed within the submitting that he solely obtained two in a single day visits together with his kids through the college 12 months.
Williams and Drake-Lee met in 2007 earlier than he pursued his performing profession. They tied the knot in September 2012 after 5 years of courting. In April 2017, Williams filed for divorce from Drake-Lee.
Amid their divorce, the exes fought over custody of their kids. Williams wished joint custody, whereas Drake-Lee requested sole custody because of the actor’s work schedule. Three years later, the duo’s divorce was finalized.