Julia Fox Claims Ex-Husband Had a Baptism for Her Son Valentino, 4, Without Her Permission: ‘Don’t Gaslight Me’

Fox’s ex Peter Artemiev claims in a statement to PEOPLE that she told his mother in February 2024 “I don’t care about religion. If you want to baptize him. Baptize him”

Julia Fox is calling out her ex for not including her in an important milestone.

On April 4, the Uncut Gems actress, 35, shared on TikTok that she recently “crashed out” after an encounter with her ex-husband Peter Artemiev regarding their son Valentino, 4. Before launching into the story about how her ex allegedly excluded her from being involved with her son’s baptism, Fox admitted to her followers that she’s “not used to getting upset like that anymore” and that the interaction affected “her nervous system.”

In a response to PEOPLE, Artemiev said his mother called Fox in February 2024 to ask permission to baptize their son. “Her response to my mom was… ‘I don’t care about religion. If you want to baptize him. Baptize him. I don’t care,’ ” Artemiev wrote, adding that at the time Fox made her TikTok video, Valentino was “in my mom’s care, which he regularly is.”

“So basically, what happened was, I went to my son’s school for his school performance. His dad was there. He came late, as usual,” Fox began in her TikTok video. “And then I had to, like, help load some stuff in my car, so we were walking to my car, and he points to this church, and he goes, ‘Oh, this is where Valentino was baptized.’”

The Presence star was shocked to hear this news because she said she didn’t know anything about the baptism.

“I was like, ‘Well, why wasn’t I invited?’ And he was like, ‘You were invited; you just didn’t want to come,’ ” she said. “And I was like, ‘Okay, first of all, don’t tell me what I was not and was invited to.’ Like, absolutely not. If I was invited to something like that, I would go. I would remember. And if I wasn’t invited, I would still have a picture or something. Like, no one told me anything about this.”