Kelly Dodd’s Father Once Charged With Assault: Anger Issues Run In The Family


Real Housewives of Orange County star Kelly Dodd has surprised many viewers with her outspoken behavior on this season of the show. Even though Kelly is a friend of Meghan King Edmonds, no one really expected her to be as outspoken as she has been. In fact, sometimes Meghan is embarrassed by Kelly’s behavior, and she let her know that her outburst at Tamra Judge’s party was not acceptable. Dodd has admitted to having some anger management issues, so when she learned that she had been called a prostitute by some of Shannon Beador’s friends, she completely lost it. Now, information has surfaced about her very own father.

According to a new Radar Online report, Real Housewives of Orange County star Kelly Dodd isn’t the only person who has an anger management problem. Apparently, Kelly’s own father was charged with assault just years before she was charged with the exact same crime. Frank Meza was charged with assault back in 1992, but the case was later dismissed. Dodd was charged with the same thing when she was the subject of a restraining order.

Her husband, Michael, had filed a restraining order against her after the two got into a domestic dispute. As she has revealed many times, the two of them discussed getting a divorce, but Michael was too controlling and Kelly Dodd just decided to stay in her marriage. This surprised many of her Real Housewives of Orange County co-stars.

“Kelly Denise Dodd did willfully and unlawfully inflict corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition upon [Michael Dodd], who was the spouse of the defendant,” the court papers read about Kelly’s arrest back in 2014.

The protective order ended back in 2015, and all charges were dropped against Kelly Dodd after she completed 10 alcoholics anonymous meetings and six months of therapy for the arrest. But one has to wonder how that therapy has helped, as she clearly lost her cool during last week’s episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County. But sadly, this wasn’t the end of legal troubles for Dodd, as her behavior is clearly not an ideal example for her daughter. Dodd was hit with a second restraining order, this time from her then boyfriend’s estranged wife, Dana Caldwell.

“Within the last two years, Kelly Dodd on numerous occasions has sent emails and texts to me, which are derogatory in nature, inflammatory and harassing,” Caldwell wrote in her declaration about Kelly Dodd, adding, “She attempts to conceal her identity by sending such text messages from the phone of Jeff. She has also sent inappropriate messages from his iPad concealing that it is her.”

It sounds like Kelly has quite a colorful past when it comes to her behavior. While Meghan was clearly disappointed over her friend’s behavior, it sounds like Dodd wanted to apologize to viewers for flipping out. In her blog for the show, she opened up about losing her temper.

“Losing my temper at the dinner party for Meghan was almost completely inexcusable. I acted like a raving lunatic. I admit I was wrong in many ways. I was embarrassed by my hysterical rants. I embarrassed my family and everybody involved,” Kelly Dodd wrote on her blog for The Real Housewives of Orange County, according to Bravo. “The show is called REAL Housewives. It’s real when I said I have anger management problems. My faults were on full display in this week’s episode. This was me at my worst.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229GIsBYk0w

Are you surprised to hear that Kelly Dodd’s own father was once facing similar assault charges? And what about her two restraining orders?

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