Weston Coppola Cage, the adult son of actors Nicolas Cage and Christina Fulton, obtained a two -year mental diversion program on Wednesday to resolve two accusations of criminal assault alleging that he had “broken” and violently attacked his mother and a friend outside in his apartment complex last year.
“Mr. Cage suffers from an eligible mental health disorder. I am convinced that it was an important factor in the commission of charged offenses,” said Los Angeles County Judge, Enrique Mongia, during a morning hearing. “It is obvious that he suffered from ventilation at the time.”
Weston’s lawyer asked for diversion after saying that his client had received an intensive treatment in hospital and outpatient after the incident on April 28, 2024. The lawyer said Weston had changed doctors and had only started a new medication at the time of alleged assaults. He said his client has been sober since his arrest in the criminal case.
“He has not felt so well for years. He has been in a good head space, about to get married. He moved away from the location previously living and definitively made progress,” said lawyer Michael A. Goldstein. The judge said that if Weston followed his processing plan and doctors’ orders for the next two years and that “remains in difficulty”, the case could be rejected in April 2027.
Weston’s mother Christina Fulton attended the hearing and said she was supporting the diversion from prison. But she asked the judge to demand a few months of treatment of hospitalized patients and suggested two installations in Tennessee and Connecticut. She then told the alleged assault in detail, telling the judge that he had almost killed her.
“Nothing prepared me for April 28, 2024, the night when my son almost took my life,” Fulton told court. She remembers having dinner when she received a call saying that Weston “set fire to her apartment”. Fulton said that she had rushed into her son’s building, where he would have greeted her in a state of anger and maniac. She said he was “furious”, would not accept the cheeseburger she brought to her and “broke” when a car stopped and rocked a door. She said that he had caught her by her hair, pushed her to the ground of an elevator and that he went up on her, “crushing” and “stifling” with her body weight.
“He pushed his thumb into my obstacle. The pain was excruciating. My vision became black,” she said. “I lost awareness.” Fulton said that when the elevator opened, Weston then attacked his best friend, the other alleged victim in the criminal case. Fulton said Weston had returned to him, slammed him in a wall, stood on his neck at some point and foreign when the friend tried to remove Weston.
“If it was not for (the friend) who risked his life to save me, my family would have buried me and Weston would have gone to prison,” she told court. She has repeatedly expressed love for her son, but said that she was frightened because he expressed any “remorse or responsibility” towards her. Weston looked straight ahead, not responding to his words.
“I was demonized to be a good mother,” said Fulton. “Now I stand here, pleading for one thing: that he gets the help he deserves. Please help my son. “
The judge ended the hearing by ordering the diversion of mental health and saying that Weston is prohibited from harassing his alleged victims and having weapons for the next two years. An audience on the stage report was set for July.
Weston appeared in court, out of care, after depositing a deposit of $ 150,000. In a related trial submitted in February, Fulton continued Nicolas Cage for negligence, claiming that he enabled their son’s “reckless” behavior by bailing him out of prison, supporting him financially without requiring treatment and drinking alcohol with him “despite his problems of abuse of substance and the history of the former violent”.
“The allegations of Christina Fulton against Nicolas Cage are absurd and frivolous,” said the cage lawyer in a previously obtained press release obtained by Roller. “Weston Coppola is a 34 -year -old man. Mr. Cage in no way controls Weston’s behavior and is not responsible for the alleged assault of Weston for his mother. ”
Fulton rejected the Long The actor as a defendant last month. She always pursues their son for aggression, drums and emotional distress. According to the complaint, the alleged assault “derailed” the life of Fulton, forcing it to abandon a Netflix series and promotional events linked to its care and fitness companies.
