Empire Star "Terrence Howard" Breaks Down In Court After Ex Wife Michelle Ghent Threatens Him

Empire Star "Terrence Howard" Breaks Down In Court After Ex Wife
Michelle Ghent Threatens Him

BHR Hollywood Reports........Terrence Howard broke down on the stand today when he testified he signed a settlement agreement with his wife because she threatened to release medical information that would make it impossible for him to ever work in Hollywood again.

Howard was referring to a conversation he taped when Michelle Ghent was on the phone threatening to telling various people he had an STD.

Terrence Howard And Ex Wife
Michelle Ghent

According to reports, Ghent is demanding a large chunk of Howard’s checks from his hit show “Empire,” in which he plays Lucious Lyon.

 He apparently makes around $125,000 per episode.

She wants him to pay nearly $500,000 in back spousal support and cover her attorney fees.

Howard is claiming he only earns around $5,878 per month and that his first wife, Lori McMasters, receives the majority of that money.

Empire Star Terrence Howard

On Tuesday, the divorcees’ representatives attended court, and Howard’s sister-in-law, Yvonne Howard, testified that Ghent was using a sex tape to blackmail her ex-husband.

Howard’s attorney, Brian Kramer, said he plans to play a conversation featuring Ghent that the actor recorded in which she made the threats to release the tape.

He said the audio will reveal her “heavy-handed acts of extortion and blackmail.”