In a disturbing new video, conservative pundit Steven Crowder warns his heavily pregnant wife to “f-king watch it” while berating her for not doing “wifely” chores.
The Ring footage, which was uploaded on Thursday by journalist Yashar Ali on his Substack channel, depicts a dispute in the lead-up to what the YouTuber has described as a “horrendous divorce.”
While being scolded, Crowder’s wife, Hilary, continually tries to convince her husband that she loves him and is “committed.”
“I love you … but your abuse is sick,” she told him at one point — with him warning sternly: “Watch it. Watch it. F–king watch it.”
Crowder reportedly admitted to later inside the house threatening his wife: “I will f–k you up.”
The nearly 3 1/2-minute video, from June 2021, starts with Crowder smoking as he berates Hilary — who was eight months pregnant with their twins — for not adhering to the “boundaries” he had set for her.
“You are not taking the car, because if you refuse to do wifely things then I will go pick up the groceries,” he tells his wife as she tries to leave their home.
His distressed wife quietly notes that they do not need groceries, and offers to pick up anything he needs while she is out.
Still, the influencer snaps: “I can’t go to the gym. I can’t go to my parents. I can’t call my friends. … Hilary, just think of how boxed in you’ve made me!”
As his wife breathes deeply and appears to fight back tears, the online personality tells her that “the only way out of it is discipline and respect.”
Again offering to get her husband’s grocery needs, Hilary says she needs “some space,” telling him: “I love you — I love you very much.”
“I don’t love you, that’s the big problem,” Crowder replies cruelly.
“And the fact is, when I go, ‘Look, I need you to do A, B, C and D,’ you should be disciplined about it, you go, ‘No!’” he complained — ordering her to “become worthy — wife worthy.”
“I love you. I’m committed to you,” his wife tells Crowder, who snaps: “Put on some gloves. Are you committed enough to do those things? … walk the dogs and put on some gloves.
“Are you committed enough to get the medication?” he asks, referring to what the report said was a treatment for the dogs that Hilary feared would be toxic for pregnant women.
Crowder acknowledged on tape to making the “f-k you up” threat after the pair entered the residence, realising he had gone too far, Ali claimed. Nonetheless, it was crucial in his wife’s choice to file for divorce months later.
Prior to that, she gave birth to their twins in August 2021, but Crowder “chosen not to be with his wife during the birth of their twin children,” Hilary’s family told Ali.
“The truth is that Hilary spent years hiding Steven’s mentally and emotionally abusive behavior from her friends and family while she attempted to save their marriage,” the family alleged.
Crowder, who is most known for a viral meme showing him seated behind a desk with the slogan “Change my mind,” has yet to respond to the video.
However, earlier this week, he addressed his “Louder With Crowder” audience about his “horrendous divorce,” hinting at adversaries attempting to humiliate and blackmail him over it.
“It’s been the most heartbreaking experience in my life,” he said, calling the divorce “my deepest personal failure.”
“I’ve always believed children need a mom and a dad and that divorce is horrible. And I still believe that children need a mom and a dad and that divorce is horrible.
“But in today’s legal system, my beliefs don’t matter,” he complained, repeatedly attacking Texas laws allowing his wife to leave without proving blame.
“It’s no one else’s fault but my own … I picked wrong,” he said of the now-ex he married in 2012.
Crowder did not immediately respond to messages Friday.
