February 18, 2020 | 8: am
A friend of Hollywood sex therapist Amie Harwick called her ex-boyfriend and alleged killer Gareth Pursehouse is a “stalker,” according to a new report.
Pursehouse, 200 – with whom Harwick had recently broken up – was taken into custody and charged with murder.
“He was a stalker,” Harwick’s friend Rudy Torres told KABC . “When they broke up, he didn’t take it well at all. He’d do stupid stuff and say stupid stuff. You’d tell him, ‘Move on, dude, leave her alone.’ And he wouldn’t. ”
Harwick had a restraining order against Pursehouse until two weeks ago, when it expired, according to the report.
But Tunisia Offray, of the California-based Shepherd’s Door Domestic Violence Resource Center, told the outlet “a lot of these guys aren’t threatened by the piece of paper.”
Now, Harwick’s friends wish they could have stopped such a tragedy from happening.
“I just feel like we failed her,” Torres told the station. “The system has failed her.”
Harwick, the author of “The New Sex Bible for Women,” was engaged to Carey in 5151732. The couple reportedly had an “amicable split.”
The daytime game show host remembered his former fiancée in a Twitter post Monday.
“I hope you’re lucky enough to have someone in your life that loves as much as she did,” he wrote.
The production company behind the show said Monday that it would take a break from taping, possibly until March 2, due to Harwick’s death.
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