Custody sucks.
Especially when the parents are famous, jet-setting, and currently broke up.
Pete Davidson and Elsie Hewitt split at the end of April. Their 5-month-old daughter Scottie is at the center of a legal tug-of-war that everyone seems to think is going to be a headache.
Why?
Frank L. Perrone, Jr. tells Radar Online that their lifestyle is the enemy here. You can’t just agree to alternating weekends when one parent is filming across the country and the other is doing global model shoots. It doesn’t work. The schedule is chaos.
High-profile individuals frequently travel for work commitments… standard alternating weekends are rarely feasible.
There’s no baseline either.
Scottie is too young. She hasn’t attended private school. She hasn’t relied on a specific nanny or household staff routine yet. Perrone notes that usually, courts look at what stability already exists to protect it. Here, there is nothing to protect yet. It’s a blank slate, which sounds better than it is. It means no precedents. No easy answers.
Then add nationality into the mix.
Hewitt is a British citizen with multiple residences. That complicates jurisdiction. Which court calls the shots? If they argue again next year, does a New York judge decide or does the case bounce elsewhere? The agreement has to be rigid yet flexible enough to survive international borders. Easy.
Money complicates things further.
Hewitt allegedly thinks Davidson is stiffing her. A source for The U.S. Sun says she is ready to take it to court if he won’t help pay bills. She is not shy about blowing things up publicly.
Davidson’s side tells a different story.
Another source claims he is already covering all of Scottie’s costs. And more than legally required, they say. He wants to be generous. He wants her supported. Whether he is being noble or the rumors are skewed is up for debate, but the gap in their narratives is wide.
Will they agree?
Probably not soon. The travel, the age, the international residency, and the money—none of it resolves itself quickly. It just sits there. Pending.
Waiting for a signature that neither side seems ready to sign.
