Fox’s ex Peter Artemiev claims in a statement to PEOPLE that she told his mother in February 2024 “I don’t care about religion. If you want to baptize him. Baptize him”
Julia Fox is calling out her ex for not including her in an important milestone.
On April 4, the Uncut Gems actress, 35, shared on TikTok that she recently “crashed out” after an encounter with her ex-husband Peter Artemiev regarding their son Valentino, 4. Before launching into the story about how her ex allegedly excluded her from being involved with her son’s baptism, Fox admitted to her followers that she’s “not used to getting upset like that anymore” and that the interaction affected “her nervous system.”
In a response to PEOPLE, Artemiev said his mother called Fox in February 2024 to ask permission to baptize their son. “Her response to my mom was… ‘I don’t care about religion. If you want to baptize him. Baptize him. I don’t care,’ ” Artemiev wrote, adding that at the time Fox made her TikTok video, Valentino was “in my mom’s care, which he regularly is.”
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“So basically, what happened was, I went to my son’s school for his school performance. His dad was there. He came late, as usual,” Fox began in her TikTok video. “And then I had to, like, help load some stuff in my car, so we were walking to my car, and he points to this church, and he goes, ‘Oh, this is where Valentino was baptized.’”
The Presence star was shocked to hear this news because she said she didn’t know anything about the baptism.
“I was like, ‘Well, why wasn’t I invited?’ And he was like, ‘You were invited; you just didn’t want to come,’ ” she said. “And I was like, ‘Okay, first of all, don’t tell me what I was not and was invited to.’ Like, absolutely not. If I was invited to something like that, I would go. I would remember. And if I wasn’t invited, I would still have a picture or something. Like, no one told me anything about this.”
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Fox went on to say that Artemiev continued to claim that she said she “didn’t want to come” and “didn’t care” about the baptism. According to Fox, this moment brought her back to times in their relationship when she felt like she was “being gaslighted over and over and over until then I freak out and then do something and he calls me abusive.”
The “Down the Drain” author said that after going back and forth with Artemiev, she ended up calling his mom to ask why she wasn’t invited to the baptism. Artemiev’s mother told Fox that the priest said that the ceremony was a “Russian Orthodox thing and only Russian Orthodox people could come.”
“And it’s like, ‘Wow, now I see where this man gets it from.’ Don’t gaslight me. That is a b——- excuse. I am this child’s mother. You are not his mother,” she said, before noting that his mother also mentioned that “she thought [Fox] wouldn’t care.”
“I’ve been raising this child alone for four years, doing everything for him, taking him all around the world with me on any job I do, and you think I don’t care?” she continued. “I was like, ‘Listen, lady, your son doesn’t care. I care very much, and you just robbed me of an experience.’”
The model added that Artemiev’s mom asked her if she was going to “punish me now” and stop her from seeing her grandchild. Fox noted that she would never let their disagreements impact her son, saying she doesn’t “operate like that.”
“It’s just crazy, like you can’t make this s— up. These people are f—— animals,” she said, before bringing the camera closer to her face and adding a plea to all of her female followers. “Girls. Please. Please from the bottom of my heart. Who you have a child with will dictate the rest of your life. Do not have a child with a loser.”
