A 'public relations nightmare': Boy band star accuses ex-girlfriend of Munchausen by proxy
It was, as a New York City social worker would later observe, a public relations nightmare.
Lopez and Hamblett split in late 2015 when Princeton was 2, and they have had a contentious relationship since, especially as concerns their son and his ongoing health problems. That prompted ACS to launch an investigation the next day that wound up halting Princeton’s treatment for six months and plunging his mother into a costly legal battle with the city.
Among others, Lopez is friends with actress Eva Longoria, who visited Princeton at the hospital. Lopez is also an ambassador for Longoria’s Global Gift Foundation, which helps charities for women and children around the world. “I’d never heard of Hamblett before, had never heard a word of his music, seen a second of footage of him,” Robinson, who was an ACS lawyer for three years before going into private practice, wrote in an email to NBC News. “New York-Presbyterian, however, was clearly afraid of him. It’s my understanding that, in those first few days, Princeton’s case was elevated beyond medical or social work staff but to the general counsel/risk management side of the hospital.
Hamblett, 30, told NBC News that it was Lopez who was keeping him from seeing his son. “She doesn’t let me speak to him, to see him," he said."I want to be more involved, but she won’t have it." Hamblett said New York-Presbyterian called ACS, not him. “How do I know who to contact in New York?” he said.
Lopez acknowledged that she and Hamblett had been on bad terms long before he interceded with the hospital. She said she had accused him of neglecting his son, failing to support him financially, and shared several emails she had sent to Hamblett with NBC News, including one dated July 23, 2018, in which she called him a “monster.”
NBC News also reached out to New York-Presbyterian for comment and to patient registrar Mercedes Reyes, with whom Lopez had been in contact. “I called JJ and he did come to Arizona to be with his son,” Lopez said, adding that she had to"beg" Hamblett to come and described the reunion as tense. Lopez said she contacted Greenfield again and wound up taking Princeton to New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan in July 2018, where the doctor inserted a monitor in Princeton’s skull to measure his brain pressure. Greenfield then scheduled a third surgery for Oct. 10, 2018.
Lopez said she was floored when ACS began investigating her. She said she had to have her mother and sister fly in from Arizona to help out after she was barred for several weeks from being with Princeton. She said a friend put her up in a Manhattan apartment while she waged a legal battle with the ACS.
But Moss took issue with a hospital report dated Oct. 11, 2018, in which he was quoted as saying he had concerns about Lopez posting about Princeton on social media and exaggerating the severity of his illness.
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