Scott Baio Claims Red Hot Chili Peppers Drummer’s Wife Assaulted Him at School Play Over His Support of Trump

Learning how to play well with others is one of the first lessons any child is taught in school — but not everyone learns it. Scott Baio filed a police report earlier this week claiming that Nancy Mack, the wife of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, assaulted him during an event at their kids’ elementary school in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The drama has since found its way to social media.

According to the Charles in Charge alum, Mack was displeased with his support of Donald Trump and began cursing at him in front of a group of children at a school Christmas play. When Baio asked her to cool it, she allegedly asked how he could support a man who said “Grab ’em by the p***y” and physically attacked him, grabbing him under his arms, shaking, and pushing him. (For what it’s worth, people close to Mack said she was just trying to show Baio how Trump “hugs” women — or something along those lines.)

Enter Renee Baio, who wasn’t about to sit by quietly without defending her man. The star’s 43-year-old wife took to Twitter to express herself in what quickly devolved into a pretty epic meltdown. First, Renee took issue with the publicized version of the story. “NO ‘hugging,’” she began before switching to all caps. “HIT & SHOVED HIM TWICE PUT HER FINGER IN BB’S FACE YELLED @ HER VILE THINGS.” “BB” most likely references their 9-year-old daughter, Bailey.

She followed this up with a screenshot of a video of Mack, intended to show how out of control she was. Frankly, though, it’s not that damning.

Renee then turned her attention to Chad Smith, speculating that perhaps Mack picked up habits of physical violence from her husband and linking to an article from 26 years ago about a fan filing charges against two members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers following a taping for MTV.

She also got into it with several random folks on Twitter who challenged her version of events. In the course of roughly 24 hours, Mrs. Scott Baio called various critics “insane,” suggested they “learn how to read,” and ordered them to “delete” their accounts. Sigh.

By Thursday night, however, she seemed to be getting tired of the battle, lamenting, “I’m not sure why me, my husband or child is getting bashed. Scott & BB were the victims. I was a witness. Hard to stand back & do nothing.”

For his part, Scott didn’t post any tweets of his own on the topic. However, he retweeted much of what his wife wrote in his defense.

This is hardly the first time the Baios have gotten themselves in hot water for tweeting. Back in 2010, Baio tweeted a (very) unflattering pic of Michelle Obama with the caption, “WOW He wakes up to this every morning.” Baio insisted it was “a joke” and blamed his crass “Brooklyn” sense of humor for the poor judgment call.

Baio has been an outspoken supporter of Trump and even spoke at the Republican National Convention. After lamenting that there was “no stability” left in the United States, he argued that Trump could “fix this” and wanted to do so out of the kindness of his heart.