Terrence Howard Says Beating His Ex-Wives Were ‘Terrible Mistakes’

Terrence Howard, who grew up in an abusive household, said it was a mistake that he continued his father’s violent ways.

“I’ve made terrible mistakes throughout my life,” the 48-year-old “Empire” star told People. “I was dragging baggage with me that was crippling me mentally and physically. But I finally feel I can put that to rest. I can breathe again.”

When Howard was 2 years old, his father stabbed and killed a man in front of him while they waited to see Santa at a Cleveland mall.

His dad served just 11 months in prison, then returned home and “whooped (Howard) every day until I was 14.”

Years later, in 2001, Howard was arrested in Pennsylvania for punching his estranged wife and mother of three of his children, Lori McCommas.

He was charged with simple assault, terroristic threats, harassment and stalking, but pleaded guilty the following year only to disorderly conduct.

In 2010, a week after marrying second wife Michelle Ghent, she accused him of punching her in the face.

She filed for divorce in January 2011 and a restraining order against him in December 2011.

Ghent also accused of him assaulting her three years later in a civil complaint filed in 2015.

While staying at a rental house in Costa Rica in July 2013 during an attempted reconciliation, Howard “followed Plaintiff into the restroom of the rental house and punched her on the left side of her face. Defendant also grabbed Plaintiff by her neck and pushed her against the bathroom wall and strangled her for several seconds,” according to Ghent’s complaint.

She also said he “grabbed her neck again and pinned her against the shower glass and her head hit the wall.”

Ex-girlfriend May Seng Yang, who had an affair with Howard while he was still married to Ghent, accused the actor of choking her, pushing her to the ground and punching her in 2012.

In 2013, Yang claimed that he threatened her with an X-Acto blade to his wrist after she confronted him about a half dozen phone numbers for women and a 17-year-old girl she found in one of his bags.

But Howard said that new wife Mira Pak, whom he met in 2013 and proposed to three weeks later, “settled” him.

“He refuses to kill a fly,” she told People.