Julia Haart’s daughter cries in courtroom over Silvio Scaglia

The daughter of “My Unorthodox Life” star Julia Haart broke down in tears Friday as she informed a decide about discovering her mother curled up, bare and sobbing, on a toilet ground after Julia’s husband, Silvio Scaglia, had been screaming at her.

Daughter Miriam Haart cried throughout a Manhattan Supreme Court docket video listening to within the divorce case between Haart and Scaglia, through which she testified a couple of January 2021 struggle on the couple’s $65 million downtown triplex.

Miriam informed the decide that she heard Scaglia’s screaming by means of her headphones from the ground under earlier than lastly happening to see her mother after Scaglia stepped away.

“I ran to my mom,” Miriam testified. “I noticed her on the ground bare, crying hysterically.”

“I ran as much as her. I hugged her,” the 22-year-old daughter stated as she began tearing up.

“I used to be holding her. I used to be attempting to calm her down. Just a few moments later, Silvio reappeared into the lavatory. He appeared actually enraged and much more as a result of I used to be there.

“I felt actually dangerous. My mother informed me to go and I ran out of the room and I ran again upstairs and I simply cried.”

Miriam stated the pair’s relationship started deteriorating throughout the pandemic over her 4 youngsters coming round to their house. The daughter stated issues reached a fever pitch in January 2021.

“That month was actually horrible throughout,” Miriam stated. “I used to be house and it was filled with Silvio yelling at my mom continuous.”

Miriam recalled listening to Silvio as soon as saying that if Haart hadn’t met him, as a former member of the Orthodox Jewish group, she would have turn out to be a drug addict.

“He stated all Orthodox individuals from the group turn out to be drug addicts and if not for him, she would have too,” Miriam stated.

The daughter stated she’d additionally heard her stepfather as soon as scream at her mother to “Go f–ok your self.”

Miriam confirmed that the Netflix movie crew — which began taking pictures Season 2 of the fact present — had documented a number of the break up, together with filming Scaglio shifting containers out of the triplex in early February and taking pictures commentary from Miriam about her mother’s divorce.

The daughter stated the movie crew additionally caught the aftermath of her Feb. 14 discovery that two costly work disappeared from the house partitions and {that a} lock on the house door had been damaged. The daughter stated she later discovered two of Scaglia’s staff had eliminated the artwork.

Scaglia’s lawyer, Robert Wallack, cross-examined Miriam about her seemingly shut relationship with Scaglia by displaying her a number of message exchanges she had together with her stepfather saying “I like you,” in addition to messages from a visit to Dominica to swim with sperm whales that Scaglia took Miriam on.

“You informed him that you just cherished him. Was that true?” Wallack requested.

“No … I didn’t love him. However I used to be being good to him and attempting to get there,” she responded.

Miriam later clarified that her mother had requested her to maintain the peace with Scaglia, so she remained well mannered of their messages.

Later Friday, Julia Haart — wearing a grey sweater and showing to put on no make-up — started testifying about how she began talking with a divorce legal professional in January 2021 earlier than lastly hiring one in December.

Haart informed the decide that by this previous January, Scaglia “very badly wished to maneuver out as a result of he didn’t wish to have the kids round.”

“The household state of affairs was dangerous however he was very complimentary about what I used to be doing at work. So it was form of a blended bag,” Haart stated.

Wallack grilled Haart about whether or not she actually felt unsafe when she sought – and was granted – an emergency household courtroom order of safety in opposition to Scaglia.

Wallack confirmed Haart dozens of messages she and Scaglia exchanged in January and February main as much as the divorce and restraining order the place the couple spoke to one another affectionately, repeatedly telling one another “I like you.”

“You weren’t in peril?” Wallack requested.

“I used to be very, very afraid that I may very well be in peril if Silvio was allowed to return again into the home,” Haart responded.

“There have been no incidents in January 2022,” Wallack stated. “It was, every single day, hearts and I-love-yous. There have been no incidents, is that right?”

“That’s right,” Haart answered.

“You knew how devastating it might be to Silvio while you publicized your loved ones courtroom allegations?” Wallack stated.

“All I cared about was the protection of my youngsters,” Haart responded. “I simply wished him to go away me alone – myself and my youngsters.”

Haart admitted that she had approved her public relations group to launch details about her household courtroom case to the media.

However she claimed she didn’t understand how a lot element from that case would find yourself within the press and stated she fired her legal professionals and employed new ones as a result of she felt she hadn’t been given good authorized recommendation.

Haart — who married Scaglia in June 2019 — filed for divorce on Feb. 9 after he fired her as CEO of his firm Elite World Group.

Scaglia then filed a lawsuit in opposition to Haart alleging she used firm cash to pay for costly garments, purses, journeys, hair, make-up and breast surgical procedure. He additionally accused her of taking $850,000 from the corporate account the day he fired her. She has denied the allegations.

The estranged couple can also be preventing over the possession of the downtown house.

Haart’s testimony will resume Monday.