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EXCLUSIVE: Court Docs Detail Kel Mitchell’s Attempts To Reconnect With His Kids Amid Daughter’s Absence Claims

<p><strong>Kel Mitchell <&sol;strong>still hasn&&num;8217&semi;t publicly responded to his daughter&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kel-mitchells-daughter-shares-tiktok-exposing-father-for-saying-he-doesnt-have-time-to-be-a-parent-due-to-his-acting-career&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">recent claims of absence<&sol;a> and abandonment&period; But court documents obtained by <em>The Shade Room <&sol;em>seemingly paint a different narrative of the actor&&num;8217&semi;s parenting efforts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As previously reported&comma; <strong>Allure Mitchell <&sol;strong>recently alleged on TikTok that Kel prioritized his acting career over a relationship with her&period; She said that her father reminded her that he&&num;8217&semi;s <em>&&num;8220&semi;not a normal dad&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> with a <em>&&num;8220&semi;9-5&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> and that the<em> &&num;8220&semi;phone works both ways&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> in previous conversations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"tiktok-embed" style&equals;"max-width&colon; 605px&semi; min-width&colon; 325px&semi;" cite&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tiktok&period;com&sol;&commat;giafromthe90s&sol;video&sol;7182407356133756203" data-video-id&equals;"7182407356133756203">&NewLine;<section><a title&equals;"&commat;giafromthe90s" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tiktok&period;com&sol;&commat;giafromthe90s&quest;refer&equals;embed" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&commat;giafromthe90s<&sol;a> <a title&equals;"stitch" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tiktok&period;com&sol;tag&sol;stitch&quest;refer&equals;embed" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&num;stitch<&sol;a> with &commat;alluremariah <a title&equals;"♬ original sound - Gia Day" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tiktok&period;com&sol;music&sol;original-sound-7182407330078804779&quest;refer&equals;embed" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">♬ original sound &&num;8211&semi; Gia Day<&sol;a><&sol;section>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>In a follow-up caption&comma; Allure detailed Mitchell&&num;8217&semi;s alleged limited involvement in her life in the last decade&period; She said the actor is<em> &&num;8220&semi;the type of man to fake&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> being in her life but that he&&num;8217&semi;s only been there financially&&num;8211&semi;and to an extent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to her timeline&comma; Mitchell exited her life when she was five years old and remained absent for ten years before reconnecting when she was 15&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Court Docs Detail Reunification Therapy Session Between Kel And His Kids In 2012<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; court documents show Mitchell attended reunification therapy with his children&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kel-mitchell-seemingly-responds-to-his-ex-wifes-claims-that-he-owes-her-money-in-back-child-support-spousal-support&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">ex-wife <strong>Tyisha Hampton<&sol;strong><&sol;a> and therapist Susan Ralston in 2012&period; The former couple ended their relationship in 2005 after tying the knot in 1999&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>2012 was allegedly the first time Kel Mitchell had seen his children&comma; Allure and older brother Lyric&comma; in six years&period; However&comma; court docs say the father actively attempted to get visitation rights for several years after the split&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>About three weeks after reunification therapy&comma; in November 2012&comma; Kel described the <em>&&num;8220&semi;emotional&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;em>session at a court hearing&&num;8211&semi;according to court transcripts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Yes&period; It really was &lbrack;emotional&rsqb;&period; To not see them in six years and to finally be able to see them&comma; and my son was&&num;8230&semi;was upset&comma; and he was hurt&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kel told the judge&period; &&num;8220&semi;My daughter was also as well&period; They would look straight out the window and not at me&period; And they said that we don&&num;8217&semi;t want to see you&comma; we have a father&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Kel added&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;They seemed very rehearsed&comma; though&period; And I told them that I&&num;8217&semi;ve been trying to see them for years and without talking about their mother&comma; telling them that I loved them&comma; and my number&&num;8217&semi;s here if you want to reach me&period; Here it is&period; And I&&num;8217&semi;m here for you&comma; and I love you&comma; and you might not feel this way later&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>While in court in November 2012&comma; Kel&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer accused Hampton of doing <em>&&num;8220&semi;what she wants to do&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> without consequence&comma; including missing court dates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His lawyer told the judge&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;She&&num;8217&semi;s not here today&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ve been here several times where she doesn&&num;8217&semi;t show up&period; She comes up with any excuse not to participate in the process&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CnBQ7PjucOj&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; max-width&colon;658px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><div>&NewLine; <iframe class&equals;"custom-ig-embed" data-src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CnBQ7PjucOj&sol;embed&sol;captioned" allowtransparency&equals;"true" allowfullscreen&equals;"true" frameborder&equals;"0" height&equals;"640px" scrolling&equals;"no" style&equals;"background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; border&colon;0&semi; border-radius&colon;3px&semi; box-shadow&colon;0 0 1px 0 rgba&lpar;0&comma;0&comma;0&comma;0&period;5&rpar;&comma;0 1px 10px 0 rgba&lpar;0&comma;0&comma;0&comma;0&period;15&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 1px&semi; max-width&colon;540px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><&sol;iframe>&NewLine; <&sol;div><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The following year&comma; in June 2013&comma; Kel sent a message to fathers unable to be with their children due to marital or relationship issues&period; He spoke about his seven-year custody battle with Hampton&comma; the reunification therapy session&comma; and keeping his faith alive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe title&equals;"YouTube video player" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;14FHS6hW0l8" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By June 2015&comma; Mitchell gave an update on his visitation status with his children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I am happy to say right now&comma; in the name of Jesus&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m so happy right now to say that I&&num;8217&semi;ve been seeing my children and my children are back in my life&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>He revealed that it had been &&num;8220&semi;awesome&&num;8230&semi;beautiful&&num;8221&semi; seeing them &&num;8220&semi;every week&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe title&equals;"YouTube video player" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;k03KZDQVaqo" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Here&&num;8217&semi;s What Kel Mitchell&&num;8217&semi;s Daughter Alleged About Her Father&&num;8217&semi;s Involvement In Her Life <&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Despite Mitchell&&num;8217&semi;s happy-go-lucky attitude in the 2015 video&comma; Allure says his presence has been limited&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;He was there financially&period; What I mean by that is he only paid for what&comma; in my eyes&comma; looked good on paper&period; He helped pay for my first car&comma; my high school tuition&comma; and my housing on campus until I cut him off for exactly this&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She added&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I now live completely independently without any parental help&period; I did this to prove to my father that his money was never what I needed&comma; and growing up &lbrack;the&rsqb; way I had to boggles me that&&num;8217&semi;d &lbrack;he&rsqb; even think that&&num;8217&semi;s what I care about&period; But then I have to remember he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t even know me&comma; how could he&quest; He wasn&&num;8217&semi;t there&period; A father should also be there emotionally&period; A father should be there for their daughters in need&comma; a father should provide&comma; a father should just simply care&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Allure also claimed that she was homeless in college but that Kel made no attempt to open up his home to her&period; Instead&comma; he got her a dorm on campus&period; And despite appreciating the gesture&comma; Allure says what she needed was her father&period; She also alleged he refuses to get her medical insurance out of fear Hampton will use it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Allure wrote&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;He lives in this delusional world that my mother is &&num;8216&semi;out to get him&period;&&num;8217&semi; No&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;s out to get what&&num;8217&semi;s owed to her&period; You owe my mother so much&period; While you got to live your greatest life for ten years without us&comma; building your career&comma; selling the house your ex-wife and your children were living in&period; The same house that was actually bought with the help of my grandparents&period; I had to experience unimaginable degrees of abuse due to this&comma; I never really got the chance to just &lbrack;be&rsqb; a kid&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>In a series of additional videos&comma; Allure also said she was the person &&num;8220&semi;constantly&&num;8221&semi; making the efforts and lengthy drives to visit her father&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CmvPdWlMBZC&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; max-width&colon;658px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><div>&NewLine; <iframe class&equals;"custom-ig-embed" data-src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CmvPdWlMBZC&sol;embed&sol;captioned" allowtransparency&equals;"true" allowfullscreen&equals;"true" frameborder&equals;"0" height&equals;"640px" scrolling&equals;"no" style&equals;"background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; 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