This fight sure got heated.
California gubernatorial contender Katie Porter once dumped scolding mashed potatoes on her then-husband’s head during a fight, resurfaced divorce documents allege as clips of her fiery temper continue to go viral.
The former Golden State congresswoman’s ex-hubby, Matthew Hoffman, filed for divorce in 2013 and detailed that the Democrat — who has a reputation for exploding at her staff — frequently abused him verbally and threw “toys, books and other objects” at him during their marriage, The Post previously reported.
Hoffman also filed for a restraining order from his rage-prone spouse, claiming she would “routinely” call him a “f—ing idiot” and “f—ing incompetent” – and shattered a glass coffee pot in their kitchen counter in March 2012 when she felt their house wasn’t clean enough.
“She would not let me have a cell phone because she said, ‘You’re too f—ing dumb to operate it,’” Hoffman said of Porter, 51, who has been in the hot seat this week as videos capturing her going scorched-earth and berating her former staff members made headlines.
“When she gets angry, she will claw and scratch her arms and then say to me ‘Look what you made me do!’” She regularly says that I am a bad parent in front of the kids … Recently the children began spitting at me and throwing their food at me, calling me ‘bad daddy.’”
Hoffman claimed that back in 2006, Porter blew up over how he was making mashed potatoes, snapping, “Can’t you read the f–ing instructions!” before she raised a “ceramic bowl of steaming hot potatoes and dumped it on my head, burning my scalp,” according to the court docs.
The couple wed in 2003 and had three children before calling it quits on their stormy marriage.
In her first congressional run in 2018, Porter cast herself as a “victim of domestic violence” and frequently highlighted her role as a single mom.
“I don’t have a shady background,” she told HuffPost in May 2018.
“I’m the most boring person in America. I’m a mom of three kids, I protected my family, I ended a marriage that was troubled.”
The testy lawmaker – now vying to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in the Nov. 3 election – faced a wave of backlash this week after resurfaced footage has exposed her furious outbursts and nasty remarks.
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The firestorm erupted Monday when a tense on-air clash between Porter and CBS reporter Julie Watts went viral – with the former rep bizarrely accusing the journalist of being “unnecessarily argumentative” when asked about the difficulty of scoring votes from Trump supporters.
“What do you say to the 40% of California voters, who you’ll need in order to win, who voted for Trump?” asked Watts.
As follow-up questions came, Porter tried to cut the interview and remove her microphone before snapping, “I don’t want to keep doing this. I’m going to call it.”
The heated lawmaker oddly insisted that the news interview — which featured queries identical to those posed to other gubernatorial candidates — was being bogged down by follow-up questions.
“Ms. Porter, I am an investigative reporter,” reporter Julie Watts said in disbelief at Porter’s outrage. “You’ve never had to have a conversation with a reporter?”
Another video, obtained by Politico, went viral this week, showing Porter yelling at a female staffer to “get out of my f–king shot” during a July 2021 Zoom discussion with the Biden administration on environmental policy.
The hot-tempered pol was also caught in newly unearthed footage sparring with her staff over a lighting issue during a 2021 Zoom meeting – later flashing an icy glare at a worker while freakishly grinning at the camera.
While Porter is leading in the polls to be Claifornia’s next governor, she has faced an onslaught of criticism from politicians, her opponents and cyber-hecklers.
“Katie Porter is a weak, self-destructive candidate unfit to lead California,” Former state controller Betty Yee wrote on X Thursday.
“The stakes are simply too high for her to stay in this race.”
